9.5 Hours!!!!

There they are, the three amigos that will be accompanying us for 4 months, we better make good friends with them

This one is mine, i am not sure how much it weighs but it is semi heavy, might have to throw things out along the way ;)

Well this explains it all, hes ready to go, while im crying off and on.. yep that sums it up!!!

Here we go!!!!! The adventure begins in 9.5 hours. We will be boarding our plane to our first stop Vancouver.. whoo.. ok doing good so far still in Canada, and then BAM 11 hours later we will be in China. Packing and things were going good, until I hugged my mom and I've been crying off and on ever since... (poor Tyson)... So many mixed emotions going on.. ahh.. Anyways besides that everything is good to go, Tyson is just putting the finishing last touches on waxing the hiking boots and then we will be off to bed.

See you all in China :)

Love Sara

Tyson says, he loves everybody and to have a great summer!!! He also wishes to be updated on the Vancouver Canucks pitiful playing.

2 weeks to go, and this is the only entry you'll read

Hello,
Believe it or not, but in two weeks Sara and myself will be on a plane going west towards China. The email that myself or Sara sent out has found you, and peaked your interest just enough to come take a look. The goal of this blog is to tell some of the adventures that happen to us, share some pictures with you, stir the odd travel bug off their seat, and to show that we are still alive. A detailed list of places we plan on going to is attached on a previous blog, below this one. Are we crazy, probably a little, but what is better than watching that? Plus we've been amazed by the blogs of some of our friends who have travelled, and are going to attempt to put something together that comes out looking as good as Matt's blog. Check out Matt's recently completed adventures here: http://mattsasianodyssey.blogspot.com/

We will try to write on this blog at least once a week, as Internet facilities provide.
We will try our very best to respond to emails sent to us. Our travel email attached to this blog is sjbtvl@gmail.com
You can also comment directly on this blog if you have Gmail account.
Please forward this blog address on to anyone who may be interested.

Look forward to sharing some of the world with you,

Tyson

PS. By the way I finished all my exams yesterday, and as I write this I am done my engineering degree!!

3 Weeks... are you kidding me?

Look how professional that swewing looks ha-ha.

This is how happy i was after i was done sewing it on.. YAY! Very little prick marks too.

This bikini is going to look sooooo amazin lying on a Greek Island... Well worth the purchase.

Good Afternoon, NAMASTE

Happy Easter everyone!!! I hope you all found your easter eggs that the easter bunny hid, I know i did :). So it had dawned on me that well i am about to board a plane in 3 weeks. Now let me remind you that when you actually count down the days it is more like 22 days. When you say 22 days it feels like forever, it makes you go, "oh thats tons of time to get everything ready and to do all this stuff", and then in the back of your mind a little hand comes and slaps you in the head and says "HEY!!!! you do realize that, that is only 3 weeks away." Then you sit and try to trick yourself into thinking you have more time to prepare then you really do. That saying I did manage to sneak off to MEC yesterday without Tyson and although i reassured him that i was only going to pick up a "few" things and little things at that, such as sunscreen, lip chap, small things like that. So all was well until i was mingling around in the clothes area, not really thinking i was going to find anything really ( I mean i love everything at MEC but i told myself this is not the time, maybe once i get a job and have more money) so anyways back to what im getting at, i came accross a super fly bikini top. I naturally picked up the top just to have a look at it, because i was curious. Well not only did i pick it up, i had to try it on. So in i went trying it on and well it was love at first sight what can i say. It is a surfing/paddling type of top that is nice and secure and virtually no way its going to fall off while i baske in the sun on the greek islands while making sand castles and throwing Tyson in the water. So it was fulfilled, i bought the bikini top and now I HAVE to go travelling, there is no turning back. This was the TSN turning point of the "im scared/excited part of travelling". Now im just pure excited!!! 3 weeks, 3 WEEKS!!! There are only 14 days of my practicum left which is sweet. I wish i had more time off like Tyson does to prepare but thats just the way things work. He will be busy getting last minute things together and making me dinners haha :). The weather here is brutalness.. well its really windy which makes it chilly and its kind of depressing when its almost double digits of april and you really want it to be nice out so you can take your Phys. Ed. classes outside. Today being Easter and all we will cook a nice dinner for the two of us and just relax and spend some time together. Also if you have not seen the movie Babel you should, it made me realize some things about this world. Well I must go now and enjoy the day and the rest of this weekend.

Lates,

Sara :)

PS. Marylin you would be so proud I learned how to sew and I sewed on one Canadian flag already and its pretty steardy.

One Month to go...

I am now married to my profession... Sorry Sara

One ring young Frodo, all the power is in your hands.

15 days of school remaining until I own a degree..
27 days of teaching before Sara owns her second degree..
30 days until we leave for China..
2-3 visas still to obtain
The countdown is on.

This weekend my parents drove over from Quesnel to come see my iron ring ceremony. It was nice to see them again, the last time till after we return from travelling. We had all the parents meet for the first time Saturday, which was great, except that the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames were playing each other that evening. I have to learn to stop taking bets with Ken, because every time I do the Canucks seem to lose. Now I have to drive around with a Calgary Flames sticker on my car for a week.

As for travel planning my head isn't really in the game right now. Being very busy with school, big final projects and all. I guess I figure that once I'm done school in a little over two weeks I'll have the time to get things organized. I guess the only thing that I'm really worried about is not getting all of our visas in time. But since that is out of my hands... I only worry about it a couple of times a day.

Spring here in Edmonton thinks it wants to start, but then turns around and says nay, not yet. Earlier this week I heard, not that I get outside much these days, but I heard that it was really quite warm outside, and then yesterday it's snowing, and today, well today there is a cold biting wind outside.

Well I better stop procrastinating and get some homework done. It's been interesting seeing how my thought flow onto this thing.

Tyson