Melissa is here

On May 10th my friend Melissa came to Japan. The trip began with a few problems...her flight was canceled because of the rain in Japan so she had to spend a night in Korea and then when she got here she took a bus to the wrong train station and it took us longer to meet up. But once she got here things got a lot better. We started showing her around Kure and Hiroshima right away. Since she has been here we have gone to the top of Mount Yasumiyama, went hiking in Miyajima, shopping in Hiroshima, went out to eat at many restaurant, introduced her to friends and she came to my school and the English club asked her questions and answered some that she asked them, and many other things. May 19th was Melissa's birthday so we organized a big dinner in Hiroshima and a night out. Then the next day we bought her tickets to the Hiroshima Carp baseball game. Unfortunately Scott wasn't able to come, but we had fun. It was our first day of hot, sunny weather. It was nice, but we both got a little too much sun. It has been great having her here. She flys out the morning of May 30th.

Thailand!!

We are back from our 10 day vacation to thailand. we are sun burned and tired, but we had a great time. We spent the majority of the 10 days in Pattaya going to the beach everyday, shopping, and eating great food. But we also did spend 2 days in Bangkok, where we went to one of the top 100 restaurants in the world(Vertigo, on the 61st floor roof of the Banyon Tree Hotel) and also went to Bangkok's best night club(Q Bar). Some other things we did on our vacation included snorkeling at Koh Larn Island in a coral reef, jet skiing, sun bathing, eating, watched thai dancing, watched thai kick boxing, and of course got plenty of massages.
Our friend Bernard was with us for the whole trip too, and I'm sure he had as good of time as we did. hope you enjoy the pics we took, the ones on here are of the reef we snorkeled at, and us 61 floors up in Bangkok. scott and vicky