I'm out of here!

I'm off to Tokyo to watch Cherry Blossoms with a small trip over to Yokohama.
Later all!!!













Not sure why these keep coming up sideways!?! *Hmm* Any-who - here's my "warm n' fuzzy" card!


















PNG English Board up @ Ikarashi

Ok...I feel like I have to give a shout-out

Konbawa -

Okay....so I had a whole plan for tonight: clean the bedroom, kitchen, pack my clothes for Tokyo/Yokohama, update the blog some more with pics from PNG, UNPACK from PNG, but what am I doing??? NADA!!! I'm sitting here cuddling with my electric blanket again since it's COLD and looking at other peoples blogs and I'M LOVING IT! hehehehe I swear, all these fine Niigata people are hilarious!!!!

First off - Natasha. http://justcallmetessa.blogspot.com/

Glad you enjoyed the PNG necklace and "warm n' fuzzy" card. So sweet of you to post it, I think I might have to copy your brilliant act and post my card as well. BRILLIANT, I tell you!!! :) I have to give your fine blog a shout out b/c I LOVE on your link list that you list my blog as "kewl"!!! That's NIIIIIIICE! Plus, your "The Little Flowers who knew they could!" pic cracks me up since that's how I feel in the snow sometimes....*sniff* *sniff*

Moving on....Pamela. http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=5148409

I loved looking at your pics Hun. Even though I've seen some of them many times already, your titles and descriptions made them WAY better and had me laughing out loud. I luved them! O tsukare sama deshita! I esp. LOVED the pics of you guys in the bowling pins......HEHEHE I was crying I was laughing so hard....so I'm gonna borrow it for my blog too - cool beans!?!















Next up... Kat. http://kittykatsblog.blogspot.com/
http://kathryninjapan.blogspot.com/

The fab. pink bowling pin above. Kat - you're something else and your blogs are the funniest ones yet. I esp. loved your "Thoughts for Thursday morning" bit, classic. You should keep it up, I'd love to see what goes on in the great mind of yours on a weekly basis! :) To see Kat in her finest, check out both her Blogs. She's a hard working lady!

Other fantastic blogs I've discovered while fumbling around people sights:

Martin's Snow Blog - http://www.martinmccloud.com/japan/snow/
Justine's AMAZING photos - http://justinesphotoblog.blogspot.com/ (I swear this girl is going to be FAMOUS with her photography skills)

Anywho...another night waster. woo-hoo.

Later all! xoxox

OHHH....Almost forgot....SXSW just finished in Texas (AUSTIN, TEXAS BABY!!! Yayy!!! -http://2006.sxsw.com/) and here's a little something fun that won best blog site of the year - http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ Check it out when y'all get bored @ work! ta-ta

Goong 23 & 24 (Final)

*sniff* *sniff* Another favorite show of mine is coming to an end! Eps. 23 aired yesterday in Korea and 24 is airing tonight as I write this. Here's some clips already though, hehe. They are in Korean, but I love the show so much I watch it anyways. Just had to share....

GOONG (http://mmsmo.imbc.com/BbsList.asp?EvtDiv=255&CateDiv=1&CateSub=1)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jfnUKQg3snQ&search=23
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e1FsDNFsQHI&search=23%20goong (This one's fun, you get to watch a little Korean news before the show)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BKy1DNOWQ04&search=24
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oqlldy4ujv4&search=24%20goong

Tonks Island, Papua New Guinea

What beauty!?! With our boat rides lasting hours both ways, we were lucky to have Tonks Island as a resting point. Not only did we rest, we got to snorkel and see the amazing coral reef and colorful fishes that surround the island. Not a bad place for a honeymoon!

Dec chillin' in the shallow end.

Group going out to snorkel!




Just beautiful, ne?

Papua New Guinea Donation Day

We (mostly Russell) got donations from our schools and various other places to bring with us to PNG. The donations included markers, erasers, paper, and basically any school related items. After bringing around 50 boxes over, we had to open them all up and divide them into 4 spots for the 4 villages we were visiting!

First starting out. Good job Evan!




The piles are growing!

Time to repack them. Nice job Deccy!

Troy and Troy

Troy (the bigger one) is so famous in PNG (he's been there 7 times) that some of the people in Camiali named their new son after him. FOR REAL!!! Too Cute!!!

Kamiali, Papua New Guinea

Kamiali was our first place to rest in PNG. Most visitors who come through here end up staying here, so they have a nice center to host and bed travelers! 13 of us got to sleep above the center in bunk-beds while some others got private bungalows out back.


The view from the Center. Not too shabby, huh?
You can see our bunk-beds on the 2nd floor. Cool!!!

Taking over. The beds here were AWESOME!

Everyone outside enjoying the last bit of sunlight and eating dinner. At night they turned on the generators for us.
Grace hiding out in her mosquito net, not wanting any bug bites!
Deccy crashing without his net!

I just wanted to throw this pic in there. This was our dinner being prepared. Check out the fish head in the pink bowl. Fun!

Boat Breaks

Nothing better than getting breaks from the sun and waves with sand and shade. The first day we rode only 2 hours in the boat and stopped here along the sea in between villages.


Christian enjoying the many hermit crabs found on the beach.
This place reminded me a lot of Thailand! Very Beautiful!!!