On The Eastern Journey

Saw a man walking his parrot this morning. We don't walk our parrots in Idaho. about 5 hours ago from txt
At the 40th annual ukulele festival. Just had a uke lesson. Very cool. 09:41:30 PM July 18, 2010 from txt
I've seen a bicycle with a surf board rack, a fire engine pulling a yacht & a bronzed old man with muscles like a dinosaur. We're in Hawaii! 06:01:13 AM July 15, 2010 from Birdhouse
Hong Kong airport. Free wifi. Chai. Lounge chairs. Kids craft area (gate24). Kids potties. English books. Love it! Gotta board the plane now 10:48:54 AM July 14, 2010 from Birdhouse
Hong Kong! There's just something about the fresh air and convenient transportation (Octopus card!) that makes my travel weary body smile. 01:51:14 AM July 11, 2010 from Birdhouse

honoZOOlu

By Shorel & Sandra on July 17th, 2010

At 9:30am the kids were still sleeping soundly. I guess we’re wearing them out. To be honest, it’s strange not to have the kids wake us up at 5:20 (Sianna’s preferred time) or at the very least by 6am. We usually get a good 2 hours of family time together in the morning before our

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Introducing America's Newest Citizen

By Shorel & Sandra on July 16th, 2010

Sandra and I awoke at 7am this morning, determined to get out the door at 7:30am in order to catch the bus to Sianna’s citizenship appointment. Of course, the kids wanted to sleep in so we let them.

At 7:25 I woke Schäfer. Usually he’s zero to 60 in half a second when he wakes up.

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Aloha Homeland Security!

By Shorel & Sandra on July 15th, 2010

Welcome to our family on jet lag.

We didn’t think we’d experience much jet lag on this trip. After all, we flew all night and the kids slept pretty well on the plane. (Hubs and I, however, slept only a few hours.)

On arrival day, the kids took an afternoon nap and then were both in bed

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Aloha from Hawaii

By Shorel & Sandra on July 14th, 2010

Our plane landed at 10:14 this morning. Since we were traveling from east to west, we arrived on the same day we left Hong Kong. Please don’t ask me to explain international time travel. I’ll leave that to Hubs.

Speaking of Hubs, the man is genius. When we arrived, he had already set up an appointment

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Ha. Na. LU! LU!

By Shorel & Sandra on July 14th, 2010

A message from the family historian:

I’ve been running behind on blogging.

Oh! You’ve noticed!

It happens. I’m not stressed. Now that we’re on vacation, I know I’ll have time to catch up.

At Hubs request, I’m back to blogging our latest adventure. As for the events of June 11 – July 14th, I’ve made a list

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HaiBao: The Musical

By Shorel & Sandra on June 13th, 2010

This is a HaiBao (A.k.a. Chinese Gumby, Wave man, blue sponge bob, etc):

Since they are the official mascot of the World Expo, HaiBao’s are everywhere in China: on milk boxes, billboards, etc.
When HaiBao The Musical came to town, a couple of other Mom’s in the neighborhood and I agreed to go. Our neighborhood had several

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Tweets From The East