White Germany Christmas with Ben n Jess Fam

Last minute decision and not having much time off left I left for Germany for a quick 5 day trip during the Christmas season to visit Ben n Jess and their Fam. ERSTAUNLICH!!! I had a blast, went to the Christmas market, ate Quark and many other delicious delights, played games, played house, neighborhood party, enjoyed evening conversations with each other, bought a Christmas tree in the middle of a forest (which is only a 10 min drive), ice skated, went off-roading in the snow , watched Charlies Brown Christmas with another American family, played Basketball, went to Primary, visited ruins of a castle covered in snow, Threw snow balls in the water and watched ducks, watched and joined with nieces dancing, nite tyme story - prayer - go through the days events before putting nieces to bed. You want a picture perfect feel on top of the world experience. I got it every night for those 5 days!!!

Las Vegas Trip with Fam

Knowing my family (especially Dad, Greg, & Bryan) we enjoy going to airshows. It was a fun airshow and after wards we went to see the Las Vegas Temple and went on the new Hoover Dam bridge.

Salome Jug

It was finally time to take a break. Enough with work, work, and studying. I saw a video of some of my friends going to Salome Jug and had to go, short hike with lots of water and waterfalls. Only 2.5 hrs away and after a 2 mile hike with Roosevelt Lake in view, you enter the Gorge. Once in, the only way out is back. The water was low and although it was not the most ideal time to go we still had a lot of fun. Once in the gorge, you either waded through the water, jumped rocks in the river bed and swam through the river. The video is me going down the rock slide. We saw spiders the size of a man's fist, moss everywhere, a dead dog floating in the pool below a 30' water fall. It was interesting how seeing the dead dog changed so much. When we first got in the gorge the water was not the clearest but didn't bother us. Once we saw the dog anything but clear water we tried to stay away. Our luck, we were going downstream and only at the end we saw the dog.

Asia Trip

One of my good friends takes a big trip once a year and I decided to go along this time. We flew into Singapore and went to Krabi, Cambodia, and Indonesia. In Singapore we paid to have small fish eat the dead skin off our feet. It was quite interesting. We then slept in the airport and the next morning since our first flight was canceled we took the next one but because our connecting flight only flew once a day we had to get rerouted to Bangkok and with the help of flight attendants and running with all our luggage through an entire airport we made it to our flight, good thing they held the flight for us too:) Throughout the trip it was very hot and humid but lots of fun.

Once we got to Krabi we had to take a boat and climb many many stairs up a mountain to get to our hotel. We went scuba diving (with very large jelly-fish and saw a nurse shark), road elephants, went to the market, and toured some monuments and Buddhist places.

Then it was off to Ankorwat, Cambodia to see the temples. The taxi driver we were with told us about a crocodile farm and when we got there a young girl asked if we wanted to feed the crocs. Of course we did, but what I didn't know was how. We had the choice of Duck or chicken, I chose duck because it sounded interesting but instead of getting a bucket of cut up duck meat, the young girl went and well you'll have to see the video.

Finally it was off to Bali, Indonesia. We didn't have much time there but went to a water fall and did some scuba diving.

All in all it was a fun trip.