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  Los Angeles, California
Friday, August 22, 2008

It's been a wonderful trip filled with lots of adventures, but we're ecstatic to be back in our own house.  We covered fourteen countries (not including our layover in Qatar) in almost 6 months and we'll have memories to last a life time.  Here's a wrap up of some of our Top Five's from the trip:

Top Five Activities/Experiences:
5.  Visit and snowball fight at a Slovenian Castle (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
4.  Boat ride and scuba dive at the Great Barrier Reef (Cairnes, Australia)
3.  Chicken head drinking game and trek (Luang Prebang, Laos)
2.  Shannon and Paul's wedding (Cairnes, Australia)  
1.  Bungy jumping for Jeremy (Cairnes, Australia) & Zorbing for Connie (Rotorua, New Zealand)

Top 5 Hotels:
5.  Hotel Off The Square (Christchurch, New Zealand)
4.  The Lakes Resort (Cairnes, Australia)
3.  Eden (Koh Samui, Thailand)
2.  Hotel Keti (Santorini, Greece)
1.  Le Domaine de Tam Hai (Tam Hai, Vietnam)

Top 5 Food/Meals
5.  Vegetarian Thai Cooking Class (Bangkok, Thailand)
4.  Random Slovenian Restaurant we Stumbled Across Once (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
3.  Italian Restaurant That Was The Only Place Open On Easter (Vienna, Austria)
2.  Chicken Garlic Pepper and a Mango Shake (Khao Lak, Thailand)
1.  Seafood Platter for Jeremy's Birthday (Tam Hai, Vietnam)

Top 5 Prettiest Sites/Views:
5.  Angkor Wat (Siem Riep, Cambodia)
4.  Vietnamese farmers harvesting seaweed (Tam Hai, Vietnam)
3.  Snow outside of our hostel/prison window (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2.  City Walls of Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
1.  Sunset over the Caldera (Santorini, Greece)

Top 5 Things We're Looking Forward to at Home:
5.  Wardrobe full of clothes
4.  Mexican food
3.  Not having to calculate currency in our heads into US dollars
2.  Sleeping in our own bed
1.  Seeing family and friends

Top 5 Things We're Not Looking Forward to at Home:
5.  Having to make our own beds
4.  Gas prices
3.  Driving in traffic
2.  Paying sales tax
1.  Working

Top 5 Unusual/Surprising/Funny Experiences
5.  Jeremy falling out of a fishing basket boat (Tam Hai, Vietnam)
4.  Walking down the street filled with lady boys (Phuket Thailand)
3.  Two-hour karaoke singing in the tour bus (Pusan, Korea)
2.  Jeremy getting his foot stuck in the movie theater seat during Indiana Jones (Bangkok, Thailand)
1.  Jeremy driving the motorbike into a pole and knocking down a trash can (Koh Tao, Thailand)

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