Chinese New Year 2013

This year for Chinese New Year we decided to make the trek to Hawaii.  It looks like it wouldn't be a long journey, and on the way there it wasn't bad, but coming back we had a strong headwind and it doubled the flight time.  You pretty much have to go through Japan or Korea to get there, so we decided to spend a couple of nights in Tokyo since the boys hadn't been there.  They had fun, but kept asking when we were going to leave for Hawaii.  On top of it being an awesome beach vacation in the US, both sets of grandparents were meeting us there.  Those are the makings of one great vacation and all I've heard about since we got back was when we were going again.

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Cruise 2011

My parents got here Sept. 29th, we gave them one day to rest and then we were off on a cruise. We went in and out of Shanghai, had two ports in Japan, Osaka and Fukuoka. From Osaka we took the train to Kyoto and spent one night there. We also had one port in Busan, South Korea. Jack celebrated his 7th birthday on the cruise and the two big boys hit the big 5-0 for countries visited. Nugget is 30 countries behind, but now has 20 countries under his belt. As always, cruising with the grandparents is our boys' favorite kind of vacation.

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