Just for fun, I’ll go ahead and rank all of the cities I have visited: (most likely to return)
1. Cape Town, South Africa
2. Singapore
3. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
4. Hong Kong
5. Shanghai, China
6. Rio de Jainero, Brazil
7. Rosseau, Dominica
8. Mauritius
9. Beijing, China
10.Kerala, India
11. Takoradi, Ghana
12. Taipai, Taiwan
13.Manaus, Brazil
14. Chennai, India
CHINA
6:58 PM
Okay so China
HONG KONG-
Day one we were in Hong Kong. All of us (colleen, maggi, kristin, and laurel) decided to go exploring for a little, so after taking about 30 mins to figure out the whole ferry system we crossed to the big island, grabbed some lunch and went shopping. The city was really cool, but packed with people all over the place. After a few hours of shopping Kristin, Laurel and I found went to a free champagne happy hour before heading back to the ship to get ready for the night. Most everyone was still in town on the first night so practically every SAS student was out at the same place. We were all told to go to some bar called Sex In the City, so we asked our cab driver to take us there. We pulled up outside this street and we got out of the cab only to find the biggest street party in Hong Kong. It was a celebration of the Hong Kong Sevens, which is the Rugby world cup or something very similar. So the streets were packed with hundreds of International rugby players all dressed up in costumes. It was so much fun, and so unexpected, but definitely a night to remember. Anyway- we all got home safe and went to sleep right away. The next day we all wandered the Kowloon pennisula looking for food, which proved to be a huge problem considering nothing opened until noon. So, Colleen Maggi and I went back near the ship and found “Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill” which was really fun to find, and actually had great american food (something we havent had in months). After lunch I head back to the ship to take a nap and pack my bag for my trip to Beijing the following day. After my nap I woke up and decided to explore a little on my own. Luckily our port was attached to one of Hong Kong’s 1000000s of malls, so I just walked around until I found another street that led to another mall... basically malls are endless. After I did a little more shopping, I head back to the coffee shop right off the port and I was able to get some internet. Maggi and Colleen then showed up and we decided to grab dinner on the ship before Colleen and i needed to get off. The ship was leaving to meet us in Shanghai, but our flight wasn’t until the next day, so we had to get off, find a hotel and chill in Hong Kong for the night. So we quickly looked online, booked a hotel and took a cab over to the place. We decided we were too tired for another “too fun” night so we just went and got froyo and head to bed early. On the next morning we had to check out by 11, so we got up, packed and grabbed a cab to the airport. At the airport we had about 4 hours to kill so we grabbed some magazines, and got lunch at a cool italian restaurant in the terminal. They had wifi so we were able skype our families during lunch. Finally, hours later we boarded our plane to Beijing.
BEIJING-
So we arrived in Beijing and met our tour guides at the airport. All of us loaded onto our bus and drove about an hour to this little hotel. A few of us took cabs to this little lake that was surrounded by colorful christmas lights all highlighting different western restaurants. We choose the first one because it had great music and we grabbed dinner and drinks. We only stayed for about an hour because it was pretty late and we knew our wake up was at 7am. It took us another hour to track down a cab that would take us back to our hotel, none of them spoke english, and even with the hotel business card (with address in chinese) they wouldn’t take us. Finally we got a cab and made it back to the hotel. Colleen and I fell asleep right away but were both woken up at 4am by some girl screaming on her cell phone in the hallway. I poked my head out in the hallway and she got the message and was finally quite. Anyway the next day was full of stuff so ill try to brief over it. We went to the Forbidden City, the silk market and finally to the olympic “nest” and swim cube. The day was a lot of fun and we saw a bunch of interesting things. Finally we drove 2 hours to the Great Wall. At this point we realized how much the temp had really dropped and were glad our tour guide had advised us to buy warm stuff at the market. So after dinner, the 30 of us dressed up like stuffed pandas in our fake north faces and ridiculous warm attire hiked up the 40 min path to the wall. We were the last group there... there were about 4 groups of SAS china guide people there. We got to our “campsite” on the wall, threw our gear down and grabbed some beers to “toast” to the great wall. What a memory that moment will be. But anyway for the next few hours we had a blast, playing games, meeting new people, figuring how to stay warm and taking on the challenge of going to the bathroom on THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Anyway, all was going well... until people started wandering between the groups and next thing we knew about half our group was gone. So a few of us went to do the same when we were stopped and told there was an emergency. Two girls from our group had been going to the group next to ours... (to paint a picture, it was pitched black, and all you can see is the flashlights from one group to the next) apparently the two girls didn’t notice the steep staircase below them and they missed they step falling about 15 feet down stairs to the stone below them. Anyway we rushed over to the scene and there were already a few people down there. I knew it was serious so I went down the stairs to offer some of my first aid knowledge. Luckily two students were EMTs so they pretty much took charge but the rest of us who knew what we were doing assisted with them. I found a pair of doors behind us and we unhinged them and used them as guernees. One of the girls had a serious head injury so she was the main priority. About 15 people volunteered to get her down the mountain on the gurnee and another group took the second girl, my friend lilly, who had a leg injury down. It was really a terrifying experience for all of us, but I am so thankful that we were with enough people who could help, which ended up saving Gabby’s life. (She was taken to an emergency room in Beijing, was in a coma for a day or so but thankfully is awake now and healing in a hospital in Hong Kong with her mother- but we all miss her a lot, and are praying for her as we finish up this journey) Anyway- on the wall, my group went straight to sleep after the accident, we were all a little too shaken up to celebrate any longer. Anyway- we all somehow woke up around 5am, maybe because we never slept(way too cold) or subconsciously we just knew to do it... and we got to see the sun rise over the great wall- it was absolutely beautiful, another memory ill never forget.
After cleaning up our mess we hiked back down to drop off our stuff and then turned around to hike back up and do our 2 hour hike on the wall. It was spectacular. You can read all about it in books, and see pictures, but you can never appreciate work like that until you see it. The Great Wall is truly a world wonder. As exhausting as the hike was... it was so rewarding so I’m glad I did it, and didn’t sit on the bus like half our group ended up doing. After the hike we drove back into the city and grabbed lunch and then went to the Pearl market. After the market we saw an acrobatic show had dinner and went to the train station. At the station we bid farewell to our guides and hopped on our sleeper train to meet our ship in Shanghai.
SHANGHAI-
Once we arrived in Shanghai we all loaded onto buses and headed for the ship. Sadly, our bus got there last so we were waiting in a 100+person line and had to wait over an hour for security to get all the way through everyone. Finally, once we got aboard we had to turn in our passports for processing and from that point couldn’t get off the ship for 2 hours until they were done. So around noon we all headed to an Italian restaurant down town Shanghai for lunch and then head to a market. It was a little overwhelming to be in my 3rd market in over 48 hours... but i survived. Then after a while we head back to the ship to take a nap before going out. That night we found a free champagne ladies night, so we ate dinner there and had drinks.We met a bunch of Americans at the restaurant/bar who were living in Shanghai for work. They took us to the 38th floor bar on top of some hotel and we saw the most incredible view of the city and the skyline. Our next stop was some club called MINT, which was a typical dance club, with lots of Europeans, so probably a tourist hot spot. Anyway- we all left in separate groups at different times... overall good night.
The next day was not very adventurous. Maggi and I went back to MINT to grab my jacket that I totally forgot about in the coat check. Then we skyped our families in some internet cafe before meeting Kristin, Colleen and Laurel for lunch at a sushi bar. We then decided to spend the rest of our Yuan on groceries and then head back to the ship pretty early.
Then we left China.
Vietnam!
Vietnam was amazing! I will do my best to recap everything I did over my 5 days in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day One: Laurel, Kristin and I somehow were the first ones off the boat so we got a head start to our day. We started by grabbing some lunch at the sushi restaurant right outside the boat... which was delicious. After lunch we head to the Bến Thành Market, which was crazy busy. Our goal was to buy some fabrics because we wanted to have dresses made. So we did that, and after about an hour of shopping and looking for Kristin who somehow got lost in the market we found some tailors to make our dresses. At that point I had a really weird allergic reaction to something in the market and my hands swelled up like balloons. Luckily, “The Voice”(lady who makes all the announcements on the boat) walked into the tailor and had some benadryl. So we grabbed some food and drinks over the next hour while I was really out of it from the benadryl... kinda funny for laurel and kristin. We then discovered a spa and decided massages would be a great idea. I was just excited because I was drowsy and wanted to fall asleep on the massage table. Little did I know... this massage was more like a torture. The massuse was practically a chiropractor and I thought I was going to cry. So anyway... i didn’t sleep a wink, but was definitely not drowsy anymore. After our massages we headed to this really neat bbq garden down the street. It was beautiful and have hundreds of christmas lights hanging from the treetops. We then head to the Rex hotel to meet Colleen and Maggi. We then went back to the boat to get rid of all of our shopping bags and get ready to go out for the night. We then all met up and went to a real cool live music bar called Acoustic Bar. It was seriously one of the coolest experiences ever. They were playing all American music but changed the words every once in a while to Vietnameese. It was just so exciting with all of the energy and all of the locals loved that we were there, so we were kinda bummed that we had to leave, but Kristin wasn’t feeling well. Anyway we then made our journey to the grand hotel where 2 fellow SASers were hosting some “wedding” and we wanted to crash the reception. We got there right as people were all leaving so instead we went with them to a club called Apocalypse Now. Again- lots of fun, and after a lot of dancing we head back to the ship to call it a night.
Day Two: On the second day Kristin and I left the ship with Maggi and Colleen but were hungry so we ended up spliting up right away. Kristin and I had some pizza at a little almost pizza hut like place on some random street in Siagon. After we went shopping for about 2 hours before meeting up with Maggi and Colleen again. They sat and had lunch while we browsed the internet, then they took us to this little DVD shop. We all went wild buying so many movies and tv show series. I got the Disney Classic collection (every disney movie ever!) and one tree hill, band of brothers and about 10 other dvds. We then split up again and we went towards the market for a little. we then decided to head back to the ship to take a nap before going out to dinner. We all got dressed up and head to the New York Steakhouse which was absolutely delicious. we got to choose our own knife and have like 3 courses, it was so yummy. After that we went to the backpackers district to meet people at a hookah bar called crazy buffalo. there were little kids everywhere all trying to sell us books and flowers. Laurel bought all the girls flowers... really cute of her. But we only stayed for another hour before we got too tired and head back to the ship.
Day Three: The third day had a little bit slow of a start. We didn’t end up leaving the ship until around noon. Brandon, Kristin, and I all ran around Siagon to check up on things (mainly at all the different tailors between the 3 of us). We went to a few stores on the backpackers district as well. It was really just another day of shopping as usual. It started to downpour rain on our way back, so we decided to wait till we were closer to the ship to grab dinner. Krisitn and I wanted sushi, so we went back to the Sushiya restaurant right outside the boat. Laurel came out and met us, she was on the boat all day catching up on hw. We were planning on going to see a water puppet show... but somehow we all decided that sleeping would be a better plan. So I went and worked out in the very unusually empty gym for about an hour and then decided to watch a movie before getting to bed.
Day Four: On the forth day of Vietnam I woke up at 7:15am with Maggi for our Chu Chi tunnels sas trip. We all piled on to a bus around 8am and set off on the longest day ever. Our first stop was about 2.5 hours away, the Cai Dao Temple. It was absolutely gorgeous and one of a kind. We actually got to witness a ceremony while we were there too, which was very unusual. People we dressed in either white, blue, yellow, or red according to their religion and they all chanted and bowed together throughout the whole service. After about an hour we head back to our bus which was thankfully heavily air conditioned (it could have been 95 degrees that day). Then we had about 2 more hours in the bus before we stopped at a shooting range. It was wild, we all bought sets of bullets and got to shoot them out of huge guns. I choose the AK47 which was soooo loud... i have no idea how soldier didn;t lose their hearing while shooting those bad boys. After we all had our fun we continued on until we finally reached the Chu Chi Tunnels. They were absolutely amazing. I could not believe the pure genius that was put in to making these elaborate underground living systems. It was actually really scary going through the tunnels, so I only went through 2 of the smaller ones. People were screaming about bats and manicans... two things that make me freak out, so i tried to avoid them. I actually got brave again after skipping 2 of them, only to have a bat fly at my face when a girl took a picture of it. I bolted out through the tunnels and that was the last of my attempts. I actually learned a lot about the war just going through the tunnels and looking around the forest. You could see bomb craters everywhere, it was crazy. So by the time we left it was about 5pm, so we then head straight back to the ship. We got there at about 7:15 so I quickly showered and mags and i head to dinner. After dinner we got ready and then decided to head to the bar across the street to wait for everyone else. We had a few drinks and then the locals at the table next to us invited us to join them for a drinking game, how could we refuse? it was actually really fun, they loved us. Turned out they were actually the bar owners and managers so it was really fun to be treated like royalty by the staff. Kristin and Laurel ended up staying in so maggi and I left anyway. We went to a bar called LUSH where all of the SAS people we headed. I rode my first mototaxi there... it was crazy. Lush was pretty cool, everyone was there. After a while, Maggi got tired so my friend Jessie and I went back to the ship to take mags back, then we returned to lush for a little before heading back to the club Apocalypse Now, same as our first night. It was a blast, and we stayed until bar close and then head back to the ship on our mototaxis.
Day Five: AHHH last day in ‘nam. I decided to take the last day to myself, and just kinda do whatever I wanted to do. So I started my day my taking another mototaxi (i got addicted to the adrenaline) to the War reminants museum. It was unreal, and made me feel so disgusted to be an American. The pictures and stories of all of the protests, and worse, of the war, had my stomach in knots. The saddest exhibit was the agent orange exhibit, which showed hundreds of pictures of babies born defected from the chemical. It was so sad... but really helped me to understnad the war better from the vietnamese perspective. Anyway after the museum I really didn’t want to deal with taxis anymore so I decided to walk. I grabbed a map from the first hotel I could find and then just walked around. I saw the Notre Dame Cathedral, and went back to the dvd place to return maggis dvds. then I bought some Tiger Beer tshirts and some other gifts for people. Eventually I ended up at a place where i grabbed lunch and used their wifi to call my mom at 1am chicago time (glad she was up). Kristin sent me a text too, so i was able to meet up with her after as well. I first went to check on my dresses to make sure they’d be ready to go before on ship time. Kristin and I spent the rest of the day making last minute purchases with the rest of our Dong(vietnamese currency). Then a few hours later I went and picked up my dresses and with an hour left, we went and got manicures and pedicures for less than 10 bucks... what a steal. Then we head back to the ship and waved good bye to vietnam.
LOVED VIETNAM... DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE PORT SO FAR.
Getting to CHina today though... so hopefully it beats our vietnam
Vietnam was amazing! I will do my best to recap everything I did over my 5 days in Ho Chi Minh City.
Day One: Laurel, Kristin and I somehow were the first ones off the boat so we got a head start to our day. We started by grabbing some lunch at the sushi restaurant right outside the boat... which was delicious. After lunch we head to the Bến Thành Market, which was crazy busy. Our goal was to buy some fabrics because we wanted to have dresses made. So we did that, and after about an hour of shopping and looking for Kristin who somehow got lost in the market we found some tailors to make our dresses. At that point I had a really weird allergic reaction to something in the market and my hands swelled up like balloons. Luckily, “The Voice”(lady who makes all the announcements on the boat) walked into the tailor and had some benadryl. So we grabbed some food and drinks over the next hour while I was really out of it from the benadryl... kinda funny for laurel and kristin. We then discovered a spa and decided massages would be a great idea. I was just excited because I was drowsy and wanted to fall asleep on the massage table. Little did I know... this massage was more like a torture. The massuse was practically a chiropractor and I thought I was going to cry. So anyway... i didn’t sleep a wink, but was definitely not drowsy anymore. After our massages we headed to this really neat bbq garden down the street. It was beautiful and have hundreds of christmas lights hanging from the treetops. We then head to the Rex hotel to meet Colleen and Maggi. We then went back to the boat to get rid of all of our shopping bags and get ready to go out for the night. We then all met up and went to a real cool live music bar called Acoustic Bar. It was seriously one of the coolest experiences ever. They were playing all American music but changed the words every once in a while to Vietnameese. It was just so exciting with all of the energy and all of the locals loved that we were there, so we were kinda bummed that we had to leave, but Kristin wasn’t feeling well. Anyway we then made our journey to the grand hotel where 2 fellow SASers were hosting some “wedding” and we wanted to crash the reception. We got there right as people were all leaving so instead we went with them to a club called Apocalypse Now. Again- lots of fun, and after a lot of dancing we head back to the ship to call it a night.
Day Two: On the second day Kristin and I left the ship with Maggi and Colleen but were hungry so we ended up spliting up right away. Kristin and I had some pizza at a little almost pizza hut like place on some random street in Siagon. After we went shopping for about 2 hours before meeting up with Maggi and Colleen again. They sat and had lunch while we browsed the internet, then they took us to this little DVD shop. We all went wild buying so many movies and tv show series. I got the Disney Classic collection (every disney movie ever!) and one tree hill, band of brothers and about 10 other dvds. We then split up again and we went towards the market for a little. we then decided to head back to the ship to take a nap before going out to dinner. We all got dressed up and head to the New York Steakhouse which was absolutely delicious. we got to choose our own knife and have like 3 courses, it was so yummy. After that we went to the backpackers district to meet people at a hookah bar called crazy buffalo. there were little kids everywhere all trying to sell us books and flowers. Laurel bought all the girls flowers... really cute of her. But we only stayed for another hour before we got too tired and head back to the ship.
Day Three: The third day had a little bit slow of a start. We didn’t end up leaving the ship until around noon. Brandon, Kristin, and I all ran around Siagon to check up on things (mainly at all the different tailors between the 3 of us). We went to a few stores on the backpackers district as well. It was really just another day of shopping as usual. It started to downpour rain on our way back, so we decided to wait till we were closer to the ship to grab dinner. Krisitn and I wanted sushi, so we went back to the Sushiya restaurant right outside the boat. Laurel came out and met us, she was on the boat all day catching up on hw. We were planning on going to see a water puppet show... but somehow we all decided that sleeping would be a better plan. So I went and worked out in the very unusually empty gym for about an hour and then decided to watch a movie before getting to bed.
Day Four: On the forth day of Vietnam I woke up at 7:15am with Maggi for our Chu Chi tunnels sas trip. We all piled on to a bus around 8am and set off on the longest day ever. Our first stop was about 2.5 hours away, the Cai Dao Temple. It was absolutely gorgeous and one of a kind. We actually got to witness a ceremony while we were there too, which was very unusual. People we dressed in either white, blue, yellow, or red according to their religion and they all chanted and bowed together throughout the whole service. After about an hour we head back to our bus which was thankfully heavily air conditioned (it could have been 95 degrees that day). Then we had about 2 more hours in the bus before we stopped at a shooting range. It was wild, we all bought sets of bullets and got to shoot them out of huge guns. I choose the AK47 which was soooo loud... i have no idea how soldier didn;t lose their hearing while shooting those bad boys. After we all had our fun we continued on until we finally reached the Chu Chi Tunnels. They were absolutely amazing. I could not believe the pure genius that was put in to making these elaborate underground living systems. It was actually really scary going through the tunnels, so I only went through 2 of the smaller ones. People were screaming about bats and manicans... two things that make me freak out, so i tried to avoid them. I actually got brave again after skipping 2 of them, only to have a bat fly at my face when a girl took a picture of it. I bolted out through the tunnels and that was the last of my attempts. I actually learned a lot about the war just going through the tunnels and looking around the forest. You could see bomb craters everywhere, it was crazy. So by the time we left it was about 5pm, so we then head straight back to the ship. We got there at about 7:15 so I quickly showered and mags and i head to dinner. After dinner we got ready and then decided to head to the bar across the street to wait for everyone else. We had a few drinks and then the locals at the table next to us invited us to join them for a drinking game, how could we refuse? it was actually really fun, they loved us. Turned out they were actually the bar owners and managers so it was really fun to be treated like royalty by the staff. Kristin and Laurel ended up staying in so maggi and I left anyway. We went to a bar called LUSH where all of the SAS people we headed. I rode my first mototaxi there... it was crazy. Lush was pretty cool, everyone was there. After a while, Maggi got tired so my friend Jessie and I went back to the ship to take mags back, then we returned to lush for a little before heading back to the club Apocalypse Now, same as our first night. It was a blast, and we stayed until bar close and then head back to the ship on our mototaxis.
Day Five: AHHH last day in ‘nam. I decided to take the last day to myself, and just kinda do whatever I wanted to do. So I started my day my taking another mototaxi (i got addicted to the adrenaline) to the War reminants museum. It was unreal, and made me feel so disgusted to be an American. The pictures and stories of all of the protests, and worse, of the war, had my stomach in knots. The saddest exhibit was the agent orange exhibit, which showed hundreds of pictures of babies born defected from the chemical. It was so sad... but really helped me to understnad the war better from the vietnamese perspective. Anyway after the museum I really didn’t want to deal with taxis anymore so I decided to walk. I grabbed a map from the first hotel I could find and then just walked around. I saw the Notre Dame Cathedral, and went back to the dvd place to return maggis dvds. then I bought some Tiger Beer tshirts and some other gifts for people. Eventually I ended up at a place where i grabbed lunch and used their wifi to call my mom at 1am chicago time (glad she was up). Kristin sent me a text too, so i was able to meet up with her after as well. I first went to check on my dresses to make sure they’d be ready to go before on ship time. Kristin and I spent the rest of the day making last minute purchases with the rest of our Dong(vietnamese currency). Then a few hours later I went and picked up my dresses and with an hour left, we went and got manicures and pedicures for less than 10 bucks... what a steal. Then we head back to the ship and waved good bye to vietnam.
LOVED VIETNAM... DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE PORT SO FAR.
Getting to CHina today though... so hopefully it beats our vietnam
Singapore
8:36 AM
Wow- so even though we only spent about 10 hours in Singapore, I had a blast and want to go back for sure. Singapore reminded me a lot of Chicago. Its very clean, has lots of trees, is located right on the water, and has a river running through it.
I started my day with a Semester at Sea field trip. I went on the Historical Churches, Temples, and Mosque tour. It was really neat, we saw a lot of the city, and so much more. I've never been in a mosque, so it was pretty neat to get to go inside of one. After the mosque we stopped at a Catholic Chuch, finally! first one I got to go in since being away. We actually caught the tail end of the mass, but even though it was in Filipino I could kind of follow along. After the Catholic church we went to a beautiful Anglican Cathedral. It was all white with plenty of huge stained glass windows. We then head to a really neat Chinese Temple, which I fount fascinating. The architecture was really amazing, and the entire temple was so decorated. They had a huge bookshelf of free chinese books, so I grabbed a bunch of them for my little brother who takes Chinese (tuck get excited). Anyway, at that point Maggi, Colleen and I signed out of the trip so we could travel on our own. We decided we had to go get the famous "Singapore Sling" at the Raffles Hotel. We bought some tshirts as mementos, and went to Long Bar to try the drink. Although horrifically expensive ($25) we each got a drink, and they were pretty tasty, but we were glad free peanuts came with the table.
After our Raffles adventure, we went to Clarke Quay to meet up with Kristin and Laurel. We meet a bunch of our other friends there too, and decided going to the Singapore Hooters would be a grand idea for lunch. It really was a ton of fun, so I back up our choices. (Don't worry brothers, I got you both tshirts). After Hooters, we walked around the river front area and stopped at a little restaurant to have a few drinks. They played all of my favorite music, and I decided right then that I was really having the best day ever... like of my life maybe. Singapore just brought me to peace, maybe because of its beauty, but also maybe because it was such a refresher after India. Either way, I loved it. The restaurant we were at was set up next to this really cool slingshot swing thing that a few of our friends did, it was pretty neat. After that we went to get some ice cream and met up with some different Semester At Sea-ers... and we went to this really weird bar called the clinic. We sat in gold wheel chairs and were served drinks out of IVs... really odd, but an interesting memory. After we wrote our postcards and rushed back to the ship. We got there with minutes to spare, but a lot of people were late, so we're not sure if dock time will be given to them, but it was really unfair, because immigration took forever.
Anyway- one more day of class, then off to VIETNAM! I'm really excited for Nam, and have nothing planned yet, but hope to see a lot of things. After nam we have China and then TAIWAN! I'm a little bummed Japan is now officially off our itinerary, but Taiwan might be pretty cool... no it will be.
Anyway... HAPPY ST. PATTY's DAY!
love you all, and miss you dearly
k
March 15, 2011,
OKay- so we are not going to Japan anymore. It has officially been announced. Kind of a bummer since I was really looking forward to going there, but better safe than sorry. They are going to announce the new itinerary plans within the next day or two. If you want to find out before we do, your best bet is to look on the semester at sea website, because ISE updates it in U.S. time and we don't hear about it until the next day. Hoping for some extra time in Hawaii or i'm still banking on Australia...which would be super sick.
Ill update next time I know.
