Horse Races and Upcoming Events

Last Wednesday we went to the Happy Valley horse races with our friend Cindy and her husband and a group of their friends. It was my first time at a horse race. Yes, I'm from Missouri and have never been to a horse race until I moved to Hong Kong. Strange, I know. We had a really fun time and we'll have to do it again soon. I think everyone was drinking more than paying attention to who won the races. I thought we bet on a horse named Salty Eagle, but there wasn't even a horse with that name in the race. Blame the alcohol. I meant to update with this a few days ago, but I forgot! Here are a few pics.

Notice the horses are running the opposite direction on the track from what we are used to seeing in America. Not only do people drive on the wrong side of the street here, horses run in the wrong direction. Contrary to what I've heard, nobody ate the winning horse after the race. Hahahahaha!

We discovered that Hong Kong actually has a legit Mexican restaurant right by our apartment. Thanks to Cindy telling us about Taco Loco, I now feel like there is a little bit of California in HK with us. Most of the restaurants we've been to in Hong Kong have been very good, but I never expected a Mexican place run by Chinese people to be good! I'm impressed.

My 25th birthday is Thursday. I'm not exactly looking forward to being a quarter century old, but I am looking forward to spending it with my wonderful fiance! Dave got us a reservation at Grissini's, an Italian restaurant that came highly recommended from a few people, so I'm looking forward to that very much! This weekend we have tickets for the Hong Kong Sevens Rugby Tournament. We've heard it's a huge party all weekend so we'll see about that! I think it'll be a lot of fun and full of people getting totally owned on the field, which I always love.

We just found out we're going to be going on a trip to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia April 5-9. Dave gets the days off work for Easter. People get so many more days off out here than in America. We got a sweet deal on the trip so of course we couldn't pass it up! This is the website for the place where we'll be staying http://www.shangri-la.com/kotakinabalu/rasaria/en/

Our Trip to Boracay Island

Dave and I had an amazing time in Boracay! The island is absolutely beautiful. We had to fly into Manila airport, then fly to Kalibo, then take a van for an hour to the other side of the island, then take a little speedboat to Boracay. We arrived just before the sunset.

We stayed at Nami Resort, which is up on a cliff overlooking the sea. Our room had an amazing view of the island along with a hot tub on the deck, which we managed to totally overflow with way too many bubbles. It was hilarious!

We decided not to use the bubbles the second time!

enjoying the view

Views from our room

Breakfast at our hotel

We even had our own personal butler at the hotel who set up a private romantic dinner for us one night on the big deck on the water.

Here are some photos from around the beach.

How amazing is this sand castle!

We went parasailing on Sunday. It was so awesome! The guys on the boat took some great pics for us and even let me drive the boat on our way back in.

All the pictures from our trip can be viewed in the Boracay photo album.

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Leaving for Boracay Tomorrow

We're leaving tomorrow morning for Boracay Island (in the Philippines) for a few days. Hopefully it'll be sunny and warm there and not rainy like it's been here this week!

Where we are staying: http://www.namiboracay.com/home.html

Palm Reading

Dave and I had our palms read for free at this bar last night. The guy said we are both kind and happy people and will travel a lot in our lives. We are going to be rich and make a lot of money between 35 and 50 and live very happy together for many years. We will have two kids, a son first and then a daughter, and I'll die at 84 and he will die at 89. Damnit. I knew I'd die first.

Bintan and Singapore

For Chinese New Year we flew to Singapore and stayed there for the night, then took a ferry boat out to Bintan, Indonesia for a few days.

View of Singapore at night from our room.


Happy Chinese New Year! Fireworks from our hotel room in Singapore.

Bintan island is about an hour boat ride from Singapore. Our resort was right on the beach and it was really nice and relaxing to be in out the sun at the beach...felt like I was back home in Cali again :)












My favorite part of the trip was getting back out on the jetski again and tearing it up in the south china sea and the elephant ride. He even posed for photos with us. Adorable! The real highlight of the trip was Dave realizing his woman has some mad basketball skills. Oh yeah. I DOMINATED in the Horse game!! ;-)

We didn't get to spend a lot of time in Singapore, but maybe we'll go back there again while we're in Asia. From what we could tell it seemed pretty nice. HOT as hell though!

Next trip is Boracay island in the Philippines. We leave next Friday for a 4 day trip.

Hopefully after that we can start planning a trip to New Zealand and Australia! Cant wait!

The rest of the photos from Bintan/Singapore can be viewed under the Photos section in the menu at the top right of the page.