Home Sweet Home

Hi Friends!

We are back from Asia.  Look out for a huge update on our travels and tons of pictures.  I know you are eagerly awaiting...

Love, Mrs. Ho

We Made It!

We made it to Hong Kong! The flight wasn't so bad. Mr. Ho actually slept most of the time with his Bose headphones on and hardly spoke to me! SIL and I had to keep each other company. Wow, there was so much food on the plane and it didn't help SIL had a major snack-pak to share!

Crazy story - we are all walking to go eat dinner last night and we see this really cool building and I said to everyone, "That building is very L.A."

And all of a sudden, this guy comes up to me and says,"Are you Diana?"

It's a freaken friend I've known since elementary school and I haven't seen him since high school! He heard someone talk about LA and took notice. It was so crazy. I felt so... international.

Today is shopping day! I love being off my no-buy.

Nihao Kai-lan

Nihao Hong Kong/Beijing!  

Send us your good travel wishes.  And pray Mr. Ho can keep it together on the plane!  

Be back on the 23rd.

xoxo

Future Goal?

My SIL wants me to enter this next year and she has offered to be my sponsor:

http://www.missasiausa.org/main/mrs/index.html

As BFFF/Rachel Zoe would say, I die.

Busy Bee

Not sure how much blogging I can do before we leave for our trip!  There is just so much to do!  Here's a little synopsis of what I've done today:

-Kinko's - make color copies of passports

-Borders - so excited to read A Confederacy of Dunces and Water for Elephants 

-Bed Bath + Beyond - buy toiletries, meds, etc.

-Target - buy 8g memory card for camera, socks

-Macy's - buy luggage (50% off sale!)

-Wylie Wagg - buy Rocky dog food and new treats

-drycleaning

-laundry

-clean the house

-stop the mail

Not to mention finalize SIL's wedding stuff, bridesmaid dresses for another friend, and dealing with a lost credit card for my parents.  And preparing Rocky for his time away from home.  

It's probably easier to just stay put!  But I am SOOOOOO excited!!!

Reading Rainbow

I am on the hunt for new reads!  I would love to venture farther into non-fiction.  But I am up for anything.

If you have any suggestions, please pass them along.  

Beach House Weekend

5 members of the PTC went down to my father-in-law's condo in Virginia Beach.  It was a grand time of doing nothing.

On the drive down, we hit a crap load of traffic on 95, or as Sally the GPS says, "I-95."  It took over 5 hours to get down there and all I wanted was some damn Chick-Fil-A.  I kept mistaking Friendly's signs for the Chick.  BTW, Mr. Ho and I saw they are building the Chick RIGHT by my house.  That can just mean danger.

The weather-people predicted stormy weather for the weekend, but it turned out beautiful.  We were able to take a nice walk on the beach Friday night.  We made some spaghetti, facebooked old classmates, and then passed out after midnight.  I know, we really know how to party.

Saturday, we were out on the beach at 10:30 AM until a minor storm hit.  We chowed on junk food all day long (Cheese-Its, Goldfish, Sour Cream + Onion chips, Chex Mix, ice cream, Reese Pieces, and M&Ms) and watched Steel Magnolias - one of those classic movies I've never seen.  It was such a great movie!  Even though it was made in the 80's, the humor was still so current.  My favorite line of the movie?  If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me!  We ate dinner at some random Mexican restaurant and then watched Baby Mama.  Again, we were in bed by midnight.

My, how times have changed.   I used to party hard with these ladies.  Every time I would visit them, I would always binge drink and end up puking all night long.  Now, we share a bottle of wine and we are good.  

We each have such separate lives and keeping in touch grows harder each year.  It is amazing that our friendships have held strong and true.  I can't wait to go somewhere fabulous when we all turn the dirty 30!

PS.  We watched The Wrestler last week and I so loved it.  However, it left me oh-so depressed!  Mickey Rourke really was fantastic in his role.  I am partial to fake wrestling because I used to watch it all the time with my Dad.  Randy the Macho Man Savage, Hulk, Legion of Doom, Andre the Giant, Mean Gene, Junkyard Dog, Roddy Piper, anyone??