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8 April 2014- Yesterday we booked a dugong diving day trip for today.  We're supposed to leave this morning (after breakfast) and head out on a boat in search of these unusual sea creatures. Here's a link to dugongs on wikipedia. Poor Ava is covered in bumps!  We even went to the resort doctor who…

7 April 2014- We arrived at Club Paradise yesterday afternoon.  Mark immediately booked us scuba dives for today – one in the morning and another one in the early afternoon.  Ava is also going to do a Bubble Maker class (that's for kids under the age of 10 who want to try out scuba diving).…

6 April 2014- Thank goodness we didn't have to get up early on Sunday morning! We arrived waaaaaaaaaaay late at night in Cebu and spent the night at a hotel next to the airport.   We got to eat a leisurely breakfast in the hotel and then it was time to head to the airport…

5 April 2014- The girls have one week off from school. Yippee!!! We've decided to do a tropical island vacation – which includes SCUBA DIVING – in the Philippines.  The place?  Club Paradise.  It's located on its own island close to Coron, Palawan.   I heard about this place from a German couple who love…

6 May 2014- The girls and I returned from Lanzhou late on Saturday night.  I can't wait to post photos of our trip!  Sadly I didn't take the Big Camera with me so all my photos were taken with either the iPhone or iPad.  We got to see some amazing places and people! Oh…and some…

30 April 2014 – Today we're heading out into the Wilds of China.  We'll hopefully get to see a place called Rainbow Mountain near Zhangye in Gansu Province.  (I'm hoping I got that right).   We're not going alone – the girls and I will be in the excellent company of two other expat families.…

21 March 2014- So this morning the PFO (that stands for Parent Faculty Organization) held a bake sale fundraiser.   Oh my! You wouldn't believe how the goodies – which parents generously donated – were flying off the table!  I tried helping Sam (she's one of the PFO co-chairs this year) but holy schmoly!  I…

March 2014 – There are giant boards in one of the school's front entrances that has information on each of the four houses at the school.  There are four houses: red, black, white, and yellow.  Our family is in the yellow house – we're the Wind Dragons. This year Annika, along with ChaeRin, are the…

11 March 2014 -  We – Sam, Frances, Jen & I – went on a shopping excursion to Beijing.  We found some goodies (oil paintings!) in the Yashow Market before heading over to Lily's Antiques.  I love Lily's but I don't love the exorbinant prices!  Fortunately the ENTIRE area around Lily's is chock-full of shops…

28 April 2014- It's Speaking Time at IST!!! Do you remember the Speech and Recital Competition last year?  (I'll dig up the link to the post I wrote…after I find it.  Oh my…finding it might be challenging.  LOL!) Well our Little Miss Avie Baby, better known as Ava, is *quite* the natural and talented (and…