Monday, September 15, 2014

Summer Update

It has been a long time since we have had a new post. WAY TOO LONG!! Sometimes it just feels like life happens and there really isnt a whole lot to share. Let me just fill you in a bit on what we have been up to since June.

In July we went to Australia to visit my brother Caleb and his wife Amanda. It was Niel's first time to visit. I had not been back to visit since their wedding ten years ago. (TEN years flew by! Congratulations guys!!) On the way we spent a night in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Neither one of us had been there before.

We really liked Vietnam. The weather was cool and not as humid as Hong Kong. The food...I can't begin to describe how delicious it was. It was so flavorful and fresh. We both would love to travel there again and spend more than 24 hours.




Yum, just looking at the pics of food makes me want to go back.

Australia was fun! It was so good to see Caleb and Amanda again. It was great to get see their apartment, visit their church, eat at some of their favorite restaurants and just chill. When I say chill I mean we took it really easy. Niel brought a cold with him from Hong Kong and he passed it on to the rest of us. We were all sick so we spent a lot of time hanging out at their apartment. It was a nice time though.  I'm glad we were able to visit them.

After the week in Canberra with Caleb and Amanda, we spend three nights in Sydney seeing the sites. I forgot how beautiful the city is. Hong Kong has a beautiful harbor but so does Sydney. They are both very different from each other but both are breathtaking.




We didn't travel in August. After visiting the Philippines with my parents in June and Vietnam and Australia in July, we just wanted to stay put. We did celebrate a milestone though - our first anniversary. I cannot describe how grateful I am that God brought Niel into my life. That weekend Niel treated me so special. He bought flowers for me. He made me a romantic dinner and cleaned the house while I was at a meeting. He also bought me a gift. We also went to Discovery Bay (the place where he proposed) and ate a meal at a nice Mexican restaurant. It was wonderful.

Niel's birthday is also in August. This year he wanted to invite his friends over to our place. We had a bit of an open house and people just dropped in and ate cupcakes and snacks and talked. It was very casual and very fun.

In August we also went on a team retreat. We went to guesthouse on Cheung Chau Island. It is a fun island in Hong Kong that does not have any cars on it. I had never been there before. It felt a bit like we were stepping back into an "old China". It was nice to spend some time together outside of the work environment.

Well, that's about it. I guess there has been stuff to blog about all along. ;) Hopefully we can post again soon.