Hands Down, One Of The Best Days In Asia

After posting my updated about the Dawgs game, I hit the pillow hard...school to wake up for bright and early. So you know, I usually check my email when I wake up because it is usually during the hours that I am asleep that you are awake and have written me! Well, this morning besides checking my email, for some reason I decided to take a look at the blog, and there's really no reason, as I wasn't really planning an update. BUT, lo and behold, as I pulled up the blog, I discovered a couple comments, one of which was from my dear and awesome brother and the other from my beloved Yellowstone pals, Katie and Christopher with the news I've been Highly anticipating....their gonna do the aisle dance!!! The best thing I could have imagined reading this morning, for sure. Oh happiness! Can I tell you that I'm not sure I would even be this excited if it was ME!? (I guess that's to be foretold.) Anyhow, I was singin songs of joy to Dad all day today. Another great thing: I went to lunch with my friends and we had some really good food that they ordered for me, all my favorites, and I'd never even told them! Amazing. After lunch we headed over to a nearby part of town that is an old wharf area by the river. It's a historical area with a temple up top. The shops were full of antique Asian paintings, coins, teapots, clothes, carvings, jewelry, etc. The weather was great, such a good day for a visit there. I will return shortly to purchase some gifts for friends and family, but I saw all kinds of new things today that I was very interested in. Coins over 2 thousand years old, Asian magic tricks, candy shaped like dragons and birds and turtles, people playing some kind of card game and another game with domino-looking tiles, just all kinds of things. To top it off, I bought my friend that was with me a picture of her name in some painted style, and it was great because she couldn't stop smiling and looking at it the whole way home. I can't wait to go back with my camera so I can take pictures....awesome place. Tonight we will have a new kind of food and later spend time on the roof of another building to have tea and play spades! Here's to new adventures and news of love steaming from Old Faithful (because after all, that's where it all began for those two!).