We got a great nights sleep after our first day in Chiang Mai and woke up to a huge breakfast delivered to our door. We always love complimentary room service. We signed up to visit an elephant park where we were told we would learn to ride elephants bareback and then wash our elephant in the river. We didn’t realize that we had signed up for a full day of other …
We had such a lovely time in Chiang Mai. At the end of this day I looked at Dave and said “this may rank as one of my favorite days of my life yet.” I don’t know exactly what it was, but the people just seem to make you feel at home in their city. We took an all night bus from the village in Khon Kaen to Chiang Mai …
Dave and I had a 24 hour layover in Tokyo during our flight back from Thailand in July. I always love getting the extra bonus of a layover in another country and take the opportunity to extend the layover if I can! Unfortunately I came down with a terrible cold during our last few days in Bangkok and this flu hit its climax during our time in Tokyo. We were …
Over the summer I flew to San Diego, California to visit my sister, Emily while her husband was deployed (but he came home this week!!). My other sister, Alyssa, and cousin, Kate, were also visiting for the week. We spent the week relaxing by the pool, eating mexican food, laying on the beach, and enjoying our own sister humor that no one else gets. Southern California is just beautiful and …
In May I had the opportunity to travel to Panama City, Panama to work with a great organization called ANA Panama. The acronym ANA comes from the phrase “Ayudando Niños Abandonados” meaning “Helping Abandoned Children.” The organization provides homes with two house parents where up to eight children can stay and live as a “family” – a concept that many of the children have never experienced. To learn more about …
Dave surprised me with tickets to New York City for my birthday in June. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my birthday. We took the train from Union Station to Penn and spent the hours on the train sipping wine and watching movies. I have always thought the train was a great way to travel. We arrived in the city late that night and wasted no …
This past week I went to visit my parents in their new home! They recently moved to Charleston, SC after living in the Chicagoland area for about a year and I am so excited to get to visit them in warmer weather. No offense, Chicago. I’d never been to Charleston, but I have heard so much about the history, architecture, and food. Visiting downtown Charleston truly is like stepping back …
Dave and I are back in DC after a week away and trying to settle back into Monday morning routines. Dave spent the last week in Guyana filming a medical mission and I was in New Jersey and South Carolina visiting friends and family. (I need to get to Nashville next Kelli!) Do you remember our post last week about running around in rice paddies? Well, after popping in on …
Dave’s family has a cabin on a lake in Ontario, Canada. Dave has spent a week there almost every year since he was born. It’s a special place for us for many reasons and we always enjoy the valuable time spent with family. I grew up in Michigan around lakes and water, so naturally, one of my favorite parts of our time at the cabin are the sunset boat rides …
As we’ve talked about before, Dave and I spent some time in Thailand this past summer filming for a short film we are making about Breakthrough Thailand. One day while we were spending time with Cori, Jub, and the girls in a rural village, they took us to meet their neighbors who were harvesting rice. Their neighbors were incredibly kind and let Dave and I run around in their rice …