So Hong Kong is officially my favorite place we have been so far and I have only been here for a day! Lydia and I woke up around 830AM, didn't have to go through customs [sweet!] and hopped off the ship. The plan, since yesterday, had been to go to Ocean Park because it had, what appeared to be in an outdated Lonely Planet book, an amazing cable car ride over Hong Kong Island. We got on the Central Ferry to Hong Kong Island and then found the bus we needed to be ...

Renae's alarm clock went off at 715AM and I forced myself to get out of bed and make it to breakfast. I called Carson, who fell back asleep the first time, and we went and filled our faces with chocolate croissants and yogurt before the diplomatic briefing that was mandatory at 815. The briefing was kind of interesting and we heard from two consulates who are from the states and work in Shanghai. The first was an older man who has been working as a US consulate f...

It all happens so quickly. Nothing feels better or is more fun than just sitting down. The soft skin against the smooth, warm surface is like a small piece of heaven - like apple pie, but without the cold of the ice cream. But it is just as fun, and just as relaxing, as eating apple pie because of all the buttons to push and games you can play. There are four buttons, each a different color with a different outcome; all along, you are still kept warm to the core ...

Hello Fellow Edventure-ers, Today is the beginning of day two in Japan. Day 1:Yesterday when Carson and I got through customs [about 12 noon] Chris was waiting for us and we got in a train [subway prettymuch, which I LOVE to ride] and left Yokohama for Tokyo. We got to the hotel which is in the Shiodome Station on the JR line downtown. It is called the Park Hotel Tokyo and it starts on the 25th floor of the Japanese Media Tower Building. We put our junk down in...

Today was my new friend Carson's 21st birthday, so as my gift to her I took her surfing. We went to a local beach in Hilo called Hanoloi Bay, which I hope I spelled correctly. I have been surfing ever since I came to Hawaii with my sisters for the first time during the summer before I progressed to tenth grade. As I paddled back out into the ocean in Hawaii I found myself having very strange thoughts. At home on Folly Beach or Isle of Palms I have never desired t...