Archive for July 2008

Thailand, Second Time Around

28 July 2008

We started our trip through Southeast Asia in Thailand. We arrived in Bangkok on June 7th. We spent three days there while waiting for our Vietnam visa to be processed. The weather was hot, the food was great, and we were excited to start our adventure.

Our first day there we met a woman named Toom, who owned a Travel Agency. She invited us to go with her and her friends to a tiger sanctuary and bamboo river rafting. She gave us a smokin’ deal and we made some new friends. We picnicked with many Thai people near a waterfall. We witnessed Thai people give each other the wink to buy food at local prices. And we got to see some really cool sites.

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Life In The Fast Lane

20 July 2008

We had a great time blasting around Southeast Asia when we left South Korea. We toured through four countries in about three weeks. In the video, we start out in South Korea at The Welton School, then quickly leave. Next, we tear through Thailand, hang out in the mountains of Laos, tour Halong Bay and take a motorcycle tour in Vietnam, and finally end up in Cambodia. Angkor Wat was really amazing and where we took most of the pictures.

If you haven’t pressed play yet, or even if you have, I recommend going to the high-quality version on YouTube.com, hitting the full-screen button and cranking up the speakers! Also, because of the nature of the video, I recommend watching it twice to really enjoy all the shots.

This video was made from piling every single one of our 1,250 photos into iMovie. The inspiration for the video came during a long bus ride while I was looking through pictures on our digital camera. I held down the next button and watched all the pictures fly by, and thought it would make a pretty good video. Don’t worry, we will still post more galleries and blog entries to keep you entertained for a while longer. Thanks for stopping by!

Jay’s Kids Video Compilation

4 July 2008

Happy 4th of July everyone! Here is a video compilation of a bunch of old footage from my students at The Welton School, in Seoul, South Korea. Thought you might enjoy seeing inside the orderly Korean classroom. The video starts off with my morning class (Miami class) and ends with some pictures of my afternoon class (Seattle class). An interesting thing to remember is that none of these kids are over six years old. I have way too much footage of these darn silly kids!

We’re Back!!

2 July 2008

We’ve returned from our backpacking adventure and whirlwind tour of Southeast Asia. We went to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, then back to Bangkok. Right now we are staying with Megan’s parents in Arizona. I’d like to get a few posts explaining our absence up in about a weeks time so keep checking back. Give us a little bit of time to go through about 1,250 photos and whittle them down to a much more manageable 625 for your viewing pleasure.

And if you do actually make it to this page, and you do actually read this far without just skimming, then leave us a note in the comments saying how badly you want to see new content on the blog and in the photo galleries!