And We're Back!

China was AMAZING. I want to go back right now! We loved loved loved our time in China, but sadly we are now home and trying to get our lives back in order. We are both looking for jobs (anyone know of any interpreting positions??) and trying to get back into the swing of things.

For anyone that is interested, while we were in China we posted pictures to photobucket. here is a link:

http://s908.photobucket.com/albums/ac284/mcvanwagenen/

Zaijian!

Or in other words....

Goodbye!

We're out of here!


See you at Christmas!

Groupon

If you are not signed up for groupon, you should really sit down and think about joining. You just set up an account and they send emails of great deals. Today I got a $100 gift certificate to Picabo photo books for $25. If you are interested in that, you can still get it for the next two days. If not, I am sure there will be something good.

Finding deals on things I want is what I do. I figured I would share the info as I am sure everyone loves a good deal.

Click on this link to get to groupon:

http://www.groupon.com/r/uu1401375

2 Weeks

We leave 2 weeks from today!!!! I can't wait! i wish we were leaving tomorrow!

These are (supposedly... according to google) pictures of our city.

We officially have our visas and travel docs. China here we come!

The Trip

As you know, two of my sisters came up for the Paul McCartney concert, but that's not all we did. unfortunately we didn't take very many pictures. but here are the ones we did take.

This was definitely one of my most favorite things: lunch at The Garden in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

it was so good because we discovered

Fried Pickles

They are AMAZING!!!

So amazing, that after we had them we had to go other places we knew had them so we could have them again!

MMMM. i need them again. (Mark, can we go soon??)


The next most fun thing (after Paul of course) was that we went to a Ben Folds concert!!!

Sanya even extended her trip just to go to it!!

AND, we convinced Mark to come!!! Yipee!!!

It was so fun! My fam needs to come visit me more often!!

Cozy

I saw this and thought it needed to be shared. It is just cool! -Mark

Oh Paul!

Oh my. Where to begin??? My sisters Sanya and Tara and our friend Tobi came up for the Paul McCartney concert. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!! We had so much fun!

Here we are before we left.

Let me just say, that i have never considered myself to be a "silly" girl. But, remember seeing videos of all those girls screaming, crying, fainting, etc. for The Beatles back in the day? well as soon as Paul came out, I all of a sudden became one of them.

Well, not just me. Tara was sitting next to me and I couldn't stop jumping up and down, giggling to myself, and she couldn't stop screaming. literally, all night. my ear was ringing. Tara and i just kept looking at each other and laughing because we couldn't believe Paul was in our midst.

needless to say, we were pretty excited!

I had so much fun! I'm pretty sure all the lame people around us thought we were crazy for screaming, standing, singing, yelling, screaming some more, belting all the songs, and dancing all over the place. We had a great night.

Thanks Paul! Come back soon please!