The City Center Hotel St. Paul Saint Paul

... room and a kichenette. After check-in we went to the mall and had a great time.

The next morning we went to IKEA by the mall and then to the local casinos. No luck on winning but it was fun. After the casinos we started to head back to Milwaukee.

... we had to weave through the other drivers. We met Aleen for dinner at Trieu Chau, a local Vietnamese restaurant in St. Paul. I ate Bun Rieu while Susan had Bun Bo Hue and Aleen ate the vegetable soup. We made it to Hung and Lien's at 8:30 PM exhausted but ready to see what Minneapolis has to offer since this is our first time to go sightseeing here.

We will be seeing the Mall of America...

Today I traveled via e-mail from home to Kampala, Uganda. Because of the 8 hour time difference, I didn't arrive in Kampala until the next day though. Boy is that a long trip! I was so tired and went straight to bed. I got to sleep ...

I'm frantically trying to work through my 3 page list of things to do before I go. Setting up a travel blog was one of the things on my list. Hopefully this will work as a great way to share stories and photos will all our friends and family back home. This seems pretty easy so far. My next task is a little more complicated...buying another swim suit. Why did I wait until 48 hours before departure to tackle this monumental task?

Off to MOA!

Mary

Here are links to over 800 photos I took on the trip. They are in chronological order.

1st set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743654&id=13903381&l =6484cf32ac

2nd set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743677&id=13903381&l =21fa01c9dc

3rd set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743705&id=13903381&l =8604f37db0

4th set

http://www.facebook.com/albu m.php?aid=2743712&id=13903381&l =1612875889

... that wont be happening again. Much of the time on my upcoming trip will be working, probably couped up in a cubicle, so I wont have as great of an opportunity to travel to Nagano and Hiroshima, like i had before. I will be visiting my aunt and cousins on the weekends when I am not exploring on my own or with local hosts from the company. I'd love to get the chance to golf while there, but I wont be bringing my clubs :(.... Plus, I hear it can be very ...

... aol.com

Thanks for reading, it was fun.

Haley

Photo album of Tanzania:

http://www.facebook.co m/album.php?aid=2009449&l=ebde3& ;id=1232460204

Photos of the rest of Africa:

http://www.facebook.com/ album.php?aid=2009455&l=f980b&i d=123246

What to do on a Sunday when gas prices are as high as the tempuratures and humidity levels? Go to a free historic site across town of course! We packed up camera equipment, bottled water and took to the highway to have an afternoon of free fun in the sun. I had visited the historic, as well as non-historic, Fort Snelling as a child (my dad was stationed there for a while in the 80's) and ...

That is what greeted me as I entered the gate area, where everyone was preparing for the first non-stop flight to Paris on Northwest Airlines. I admired the ice replica, and noticed that they had every facet and detail chiseled into the ice perfectly. Northwest airlines went all out for this one. All the news channel were there to cover the ribbon ...

... going on a 6 mile run. Layl was so excited to go running with me, since I convinced myself that I love to run. However, I wasn't as fast as I should have been due to the Country Jam crazyness. But I made it just fine. We then packed up the car and headed out with Josh's parents to their friends farm. Layl and I were not sure what to expect. Being from Wyoming we think cattle farm out on the dusty plains. However the farm was beautiful with trees, a nice ...