Brant and Jen's Excellent Adventure
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Singapore - Bangkok - Cambodia - South Vietnam - North Vietnam - Hong Kong - New Zealand

Jen in Singapore on the big shopping street.

  Brant in a water taxi on the river in Singapore (with colorful buildings in the background)

Jen on water taxi

  Jen and the big leaf

Outside of the Night Safari

On top of the Hill we climbed to get to the cable car

View from the top of the hill

Brant/Jen in cable car going to Sonesta Island

View from cable car

Brant and the Merlion.  The furious lion/mermaid???

Jen in the Merlion with the Merlion's magical friends.

  Jen by the peacock (which is something we may have accidentally eaten in China)

Shangri La's beach

 Jen eating a mushroom

The botanical Garden

 They have thousands of hybrid orchids

  The mist house

Having a beer looking out on the Bay

Cambodia
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Local Market in Cambodia (and Jen's boyfriend)

 Kids greeting us as we got off the bus

 The kids wanted to get their picture taken and then see the image of themselves on the digital camera

 Brant handing out some cookies

 The kids eating their cookies

  A boy helping his sister get on the bike (she was still holding on to her cookie)

 A sign on our bus, this guy flunked out of English I

 Beach at a resort in Cambodia

 Jen walking after doing her ritual of touching the water

  Santa came to the boat ("on the Starboard side")

Relaxing and reading on the way to Bangkok

Bangkok
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 Jen and her funny looking Sprite can

 Trying to get to the dinner show via the train. (We had no idea what we were in for.)

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We had a run-in with some angry dogs in a dark alley off an unknown street.  The only escape was closed off by a chain link fence with barbed wire at the top.  We eventually found a gate.

 This is the dinner show we were trying to get.  they had great authentic Thai food.

 This is a "Tail-Boat".  The driver had to move this huge engine around manually

 This shows him lifting the propeller out of the water to change directions.

 Now he has to lean way to the side of the boat to steer.

  Jen accepting the tour guide duties.

She needed help.

 Temple in Bangkok

 The temple had a bunch of cats running around.  Most looked very, very hungry.

South Vietnam
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Greetings from local women in their traditional hats

In front of the crazy motorbike filled streets.

 And don't forget the huge trucks that fly by without paying attention to the traffic signs (or laws)

 Old Vietnam War helicopter (or "American War" - as they call it)

 Inside a Pagoda (seen one, you've seen em all)

  Jen and her adventurer's hat.

 House Boat (they raise fish in nets under their houses)

  'Adventure Jen' drinking coconut milk

Doing some adventuring

 These chickens all had a cough (I hope it was ok that they ran through my lunch (see below)

  A fruit-filled lunch (which was very good).

Jen's bathroom, which she became used to (we are getting one installed in our next house).

Ha Long Bay, North Vietnam
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 One of the 3,000+ rocks in the Bay

 A Fisherman out making his living.

 In the middle of Ha Long Bay

 New Years Eve

 Partying on New Years on the boat.

 Kevin O'Sullivan (when they gave back our immigration card, they weren't too worried about matching it up with the correct person).

 The ferry going to the mainland.  It took an hour each way, but it was only about 1/2 a mile.

 Looking out from the fish market.  (One thing is for sure, the fish at the market were fresh - most were still "breathing" while sitting in their bins).

 Out in the bay on a bamboo canoe being rowed by a lady 1/3 Brant's size.

 This guy let us come on his house (a boat) and showed us the fish he was raising.

 The guy with his dog (who was not too excited to see us at first).

 We ate at this floating restaurant.  We were the only ones on it.

 Here is our lunch.

 The boat behind us took us around the bay. it had a crew of 3 and could fit 42 people (it costs $10/hour).

 Jen and our tour guide - Cuc (very interesting lady)

 Eating on the floating restaurant

 The two rocks behind me are the most famous in the Bay "The kissing rocks"

 Out in the Bay

Canton, China
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 Turtles.  Soup anyone?

  These are buckets filled with hundreds of scorpions.  Why?  Do the chopsticks give you a hint?

  Jen making friends

 Our dinner in Canton.  I have NO idea what we ate.

  'Adventure Jen' on her way to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong
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 Hong Kong Skyline

 Shopping market

 This is in a candy store.  "Let's see, should I get the sugar pineapple, the licorice, or the dried out minnows?"

 Street in Hong Kong

 More Skyline

 And more.

 They wouldn't allow Jen to bring this bag on the plane for some reason.

New Zealand
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 We made it to New Zealand

 Brant and Tim goofing off

 The beginning of our hike (the shorter one of the trip)

  It appears a little chilly

 Kev agrees

 Jen decides to brave the cold

 Hiking to the next stop

 The crew

 Cathedral Cove

  View during the walk

 The boys after a round of golf

 Walking across the Croquet field

Two goofballs on their way to do some luge racing

 Let the races begin

 Heading back up to do it again

 Is that Kevin by himself in the chair?

  Jen coming back up to try it one more time

 The boys getting ready for their 3-man Zorb

 Jen Pre-Zorb

 Another golf day - with an amazing view

Tim decided to skip today's round

 Baldy in front of the hotel

 Heading up Mt. Doom

 It's getting colder as we head up

Jen asking for a piggy-back ride the rest of the way

 Jen nearing the top

 There are some fairly sharp drop-offs

 Kev in front of the blue lake near the top of the mountain

  Eating lunch at the top

 Kevin (green) and Kathy (yellow) start the decent

   Where's Dan?

 The other lake at the top of the mountain

 Jen doing her stretching routine

    During the decent

The surface of the moon

 The rapids leading to the waterfall

 The waterfall

 The water could fill an Olympic sized pool every second

  Jen, Brant, and Tim on the Jet Boat

Prawn fishing

 And Kevin is the winner

 Going for the hole in one

 Kevin landed two on the green!

 The beach

Jen has a hangover

 These two appear fine