Corregidor Island
Our first adventure after arriving in Manila was to Corregidor, a tadpole shaped island about an hour from Manila by boat. The island is placed at the mouth of Manila Bay, making it a strategic military strong hold that’s been conquered and controlled by the Filipinos, Spanish, US and Japanese over the years. The island […]
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Our stay at the historic Manila Hotel
The first hotel we stayed at in the Philippines was the Manila Hotel. It’s a five star hotel built right along the bay. Lots of famous people have stayed there (including President John F. Kennedy and The Beatles) and it’s the site of many national political events. We got fresh mango juice as complimentary welcome drinks. […]
Getting around in the Philippines
One of the most exciting and challenging parts of our trip was figuring out how to get around. We tried so many different types of transportation we thought we’d devote a post it: Jeepney Jeepneys were originally introduced into the country after a bunch of US military jeeps were left behind after WWII. […]
Filipino adventure!~
We finally took our much-anticipated trip to the Philippines. We stayed at the nicest hotels we’ve ever been to as well as the worst hotels we’ve ever been to. We had some amazing food and met up with awesome people. We saw the world’s smallest primate (they’re monkeys about two inches tall!). We saw an […]
We’re still alive!
Jon and I were writing our family history for a family reunion and noticed that our blog is extremely out of date. Sorry for the lack of updates once again! We’ve been busy busy busy working away, but do have some updates for what’s been happening in the past few months. Church After our move […]
Summer 2011
It was raining dogs and cats today so I guess that means one thing: Summer is officially over and our Northwest Autumn weather has returned :(. We had a pretty eventful summer this year! Main highlights: 1) We took a big Chau family vacation to Florida 2) Jon got his hands on a $99 HP […]
Vegas!
We took a trip to Las Vegas for my cousin’s wedding. It was a really fun trip, but the heat and dust was ridiculous. We found ourselves planning out where we were going based on where there would be air conditioning and how hot it would be. We decided to try some fancy hotels out […]
An eventful trip to Vancouver
This Saturday we took another quick trip up to Vancouver. We met up with a family I knew from my mission that had moved to Canada. It was fun to catch up on how they’ve been and find out all the news from the people I knew in the Philippines. It turns out there’s a […]
Adventure of olympic proportions!
Last week our friend Susan came up to see the Olympics with us! We woke up early, drove up to Vancouver, perused the scene, saw the women’s curling event, and drove home so we could go to work the next day. Here are the pictures. We waited in a HUGE line for about an hour […]
Victoria and Beyond!!!!!
We took a little vacation the week before Thanksgiving this year. Our friend Susan visited us from Provo so we decided to have a little adventure. We headed North on Sunday with our luggage and a bag of goldfish crackers. Good thing we had them or we would have starved! First we caught the Edmonds-Kingston […]