Acai Bowl

Go to Bonzai Bowls and get yourself and Acai Bowl... I am loving them right now and it has a lot of negative calorie foods that make you feel great especially after a good workout or in my case my doctor's appointment... it's perfect!!!

Chanel and Cameron...oo yeah they got married by the wayyyy!

My sister Chanel got married July 23, 2011 in the Newport Beach Temple and it was a pretty dang good day! They were very cute and everyone had a good time. One of my favorite parts of the whole day was when they did the ring ceremony down on the beach. They had a reception at one of the houses down in the streets of Newport and so as we were preparing for the reception and of course the neighbors all around knew that later that day they would get to see a little ceremony take place and they were just as excited about it! It was fun to watch the people on their balconies and the people around the beach watch from the distance as Chanel walked up to walk down the isle. As soon as the ceremony was over and we all started cheering and clapping so did everyone else at the beach! It was pretty and a lot of fun and Chanel and Cameron did a good job putting it together.

China... but more to come later

Finally, I get to blog about my trip to China! It has been long but so much fun, and definitely a once in a lifetime experience. So my golf team gets to go on international trip every four years and that is why we are in China. Sixteen travelers, fifteen days, twelve golf balls, eleven golf bags, ten women, nine different modes of transportation (Plane, train, charter bus, scooter taxi, bike taxi, boat ferry, subway, walking, and taxi), six rounds of golf, five cities, four different roommates, three Chinese speakers, two great coaches, and one awesome trip.

We started our trip in the out skirts of Beijing at Pine Valley Resort and Golf. The CEO of Red Bull I guess owns this vast property. It is basically his play ground, we were the only guests in this huge palace. We rode bikes around the place and through the golf course it was so much fun. The golf course was beautiful, but the smog is what shocked me the most in Beijing. I played four holes before the smog made it hard for me to take a deep breathe. We each had our own individual caddie for each round and my caddy at Pine Valley was awesome. Her English wasn't very good, but her golf lingo was. She only went to school tell 7th grade and that was the case with all of my caddies. I never saw a male caddy throughout my whole trip, which was interesting. We then spent a couple of days in the city of Beijing. We climbed the GREAT WALL! Not just to one tower, but eight of them. We got to the third tower and we agreed at least I think to hike two more towers. Well we sort of got seprated especially since I took more stops than normal and when I finally got the 5th tower they weren't there and I could see in the distance they had kept going. Well I couldn't just stop, I had to keep going too. I'm not kidding 7 towers later there was a dead end...finally! I'm thinking it was at least a couple of miles. Also, I thought the Great Wall consisted more of ramps. This is not the case... it was all stairs, some stairs I'm not kidding felt like a yard high. It was a great stair master workout!

THE FORBIDDEN CITY. A great site to see, and with so many people! It was huge! We went to Zhong Shan Park which gates lead into the Forbidden City. We went here because in 1971 President Pakard and ...

We went to an acrobat show, which the Chinese seem to be really into acrobats. We went shopping at this place called the silk market which is a six level shopping complex where you haggle basically. It was so much fun to watch and try and do yourself. We celebrated our coaches birthday too! Happy Birthday Coach. We then took an overnight train ride to Xi'an and all I can say is WOW!! Basically, each cabin was 3 yards wides and 6 stacked beds inside one cabin and NO room. We also had eleven golf bags!! The people in the train were so nice and accommodating, but I have no idea how we fit everything. It was an absolute miracle! After an unforgettable twelve hour train ride, we arrived in Xi'an.

Travel Day.... Ehhhh

Today, was the long 10 hour flight to Korea and then a 1 hour flight to Beijing. I feel cheated out of day! I woke up at 4:15 AM on Saturday morning June 18th to go to the airport, when I got off the flight from Honolulu to Seoul it was June 19th, 3:00 PM. I didn't have any problems with the flight, in fact the plane was pretty empty and I got a 2 seater row to myself. They had these nice pig screens for each person and a million movies to choose from. The 10 hours literally flew by. We are currently waiting for our next flight to Beijing and the Seoul airport is one of the nicest airports I have seen. When you go into the bathrooms there is an etiquette bell, and you push a button to reline to toilet seat... interesting... Anyway, I feel pretty good about keeping this updated hopefully I can keep it up!!

Last day in Maui :(

Unfortunately, we didn't have the best weather and it rained and was cloudy for the whole entire day. We hung out played cards, still went swimming, went to the hot tub, and watched the US Open. It was a nice relaxing last day and we finished it off with going to Lahina. The boys all got black rock shirts for jumping off and I really wanted one, but I didn't jump off (probably a good thing) ;)... Aaron finally got to see one of the biggest trees ever...The Banyan tree. The tree was imported from India and was only 8 feet tall. It now stands over 60 feet high, has 12 major trunks in addition to a huge core. It stretches over a 200-foot area and shades 2/3 of an acre. Lets just say it's massive. It was fun to walk around and just admire the splendor of Lahina. We can't wait to come back, hopefully next time there are some waves for Aaron :)