Traveling: How to Arrive to Penang, Malaysia (From Kuala Lumpur you have to go to Buttersworth to get to Penang, which is an island.) 3 Tips when traveling by train to Buttersworth, Malaysia 1. Don't travel Southeast Asia during the Spring Festival in February or book...
1) Take a bus and make friends with other travelers. Denny and I took a bus from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. On this bus we met two other English teachers teaching abroad, Jillian (Canadian) and Rhonda (Hong Kong), who we met up with twice on our stay in Kuala Lumpur....
Book Review of Little Bee When I starting this book I liked how it was different and raw but as I progressed into the story my heart ached to the point I wanted to stop reading it. "This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day,...
My husband, Denny and I have been married for 3 years now. The time flew by quickly. I wanted to share with you why this anniversary was one of my best days in my life and how you too can celebrate an incredible anniversary. For those of you who aren't readers but...
Rewind time to five years ago in the mountains of Payson when a young man walked me to my cabin and told me he had a kindergarten crush on me. Little did I know that day I met my future husband. (Below are pictures from the summer we met.) 3 Years and Many More to...
What is CouchSurfing? CouchSurfing "offers its users hospitality exchange and social networking services." The website allows for people to host travelers and for travelers to travel for free. With being a host or a CouchSurfer there are a lot of perks. I had the...
I was blessed with the opportunity to take Zac's high school senior graduation pictures. Zac is funny, easy going, has dramatic facial expressions and loves his parents. He is currently living in Qingdao, China but will be attending college in the United States in the...
Singapore, the southern tip of Malaysia, the garden city, is a very safe clean country to add to your bucket list. What was once a British trading colony is now influenced by Malay, Chinese and Indian. Exchange rate when we traveled Singapore: ($1 USA=S $1.20) While...
I had the pleasure to celebrate Serena's first year of life with her and her mom, Allison 7 Tips on How to Photograph a 1 Year Old 1) Have the mom or dad near by. Capture memories by having the parent in the pictures to catch how the child and the parent...
Hearing the truth in certain Asian countries is like trying to find a piece of gold in barrels of rice: there but far in between. Most Asians, similar to children in the United States, have never heard the Easter story. In America we are blessed with churches on every...
