Penang

In 2000, I went on my first foreign vacation to Penang. Penang is a small state in Malaysia. I spent my 8th birthday there too.
One day we went for a drive and saw monkeys hanging from power lines and other things around. I also remember the temples, we were constantly taking off our shoes to look in these gorgeous colorful Buddhist temples with huge statues, it was amazing! Most nights we would walk down the main street and there were markets filled with so many things, near the end of the street was a restaurant we visited most nights because the food was to die for. By the end of the trip, the restaurant gave us a gift because we visited so much and we like friends to them. In the picture is a bridge in Penang, it is 8.4 miles long!

Summer

Summer is sooo close. We have 7 days left of school until break. I am so excited. Where are you all spending your time off school? In just 21 days I will be flying to Paris!!! =DDDD

I would love...

Ireland has been a country I have wanted to visit for a while. In Australia we had family friends from Ireland. In one family, both parents were born in Ireland, but their daughters were both born and raised in Australia. The other family had an Irish dad, but the whole family lived in Ireland for a year.

After looking through their pictures and hearing stories of things they had seen and done I just had to go there.

In the movie P.S. I Love You, Hilary Swank's character visits her dead husband's home in Ireland and remembers when she met him there, the landscape was gorgeous!!!

Hopefully one day I'll go there.

Amsterdam

On Saturday, my mom came into my room when she got home from work with a question. "When we go to Paris do you want to go to Amsterdam for a couple of days?"

Of course I said yes, I love visiting new places, and I heard Amsterdam is beautiful. My parents went to Amsterdam like 18 years ago and have plenty of stories from their visit.

I can't wait for the 17th of June. I have exactly four weeks till I go =D. YAY

5 weeks...

This time in five weeks, I will be sitting on a plane on my way to Zurich, then I'll be catching a connecting flight to Paris!!! I am so excited. For the first time, I get to go to Europe and I'll see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and I'll get to walk down the Champs Elysses and shop!
I'm only going for a week, so I'm kind of worried that I'll be tired the whole time because of the time difference and the plane ride, but I'll get over it.
When we are there we might go out to the French countryside and spend a few days there as well as in Paris. In the country are all of the old castles once lived in by French royalty.

Facebook...

When I first joined Facebook, I found an application that allows you to tag all of the cities you have visited. I have been to hundreds of cities within eight countries. http://apps.facebook.com/tripadvisortravelmap/?session=true&fbsrc=leftNav
Try it out for yourself.

=D

This morning my mom told me that rather than going to Italy, we will probably go to France!!! I was excited about going to Italy, but finding out it's France instead makes me so much happier. I have wanted to go there for such a long time! We will either stay in Paris or Nice. YAY! This is going to be such an amazing experience, which ever country I visit will be amazing!