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Sumner Evans

Day 4: At Sea

Sumner

We started out really late, nine o’clock or so, because we have such a dark room in the interior of the ship and we don’t have any windows so we were all just thinking that it was three in the morning and went back to bed. Finally I figured out and looked at my watch. Oh well we had some nice rest. We actually didn’t have breakfast because we were so late getting started. Instead we got ready to go to this “Meet and Greet” meeting hosted by this group called “Cruise Critic” (if you ever want to go on a cruise check it out, I actually don’t know what it is but it must be good or else mom wouldn’t  have used it). Anyway Hannah and I got ready before mom and Oma so we went up to the Crows Nest to write yesterday’s post. The meeting, by the way was at the Crows Nest on one side. We were sitting on the other side looking out at the ocean in front of us. Mom showed up at the meeting late, really late, so late that she missed the entire meeting. She did show up for the mingling time after the meeting and somehow or another she ended up talking to some ladies about the iPad and how they didn’t know how to use it. Well she volunteered me to teach an iPad class. I had come over just as she was doing so and I was just a little surprised. Well, I walked out of the Crows Nest with an iPad class with four women at two o’clock in the afternoon. We decided to go have some lunch and after we ate we went to play ping-pong until time for me to teach the iPad class. The iPad class went well, our progress: we made it to learning how to mass delete photos! Anyway after an hour of class we decided that we would have another class the next day at the same time two o’clock. Remember this time, it will come in handy near the end of the day. After I was finished with the class I joined club HAL for ice cream an then plagued ping-ping with mom. Then Hannah and I went swimming for a little while. Once we were done we went back to the room to get dressed for the formal dinner. The formal dinner is a very formal occasion. I wore a suit and tie. If you’re reading this Nic, thank you for the suit, it has come in handy. Goodwill also helped out by supplying the shoes and tie. The food was delicious, we had an appetizer, soup, an entree and a desert. All of which were good. After our dinner we went to go see a pianist perform. Before he started though, the guy announced that there would be a time change in the middle of the day tomorrow, at two o’clock. There will be no two o’clock tomorrow. He joked that he was going to work out from two till three. Now remember that time I told you to remember? Well if you remember I had scheduled my iPad class at two o’clock but tomorrow it not exist, oops. Anyway the pianist was really good. I enjoyed the songs. One of the songs was a medley of some of Beethoven songs made modern, it was really interesting. It just goes to show that the melodies are the same just the style, and instruments that the melodies are played on change. After that show as we were going towards our room we saw another thing set up. It was a game show. We decided to watch that, they took some people form the audience that wanted to do it and one of the guys from the staff asked the questions. One of ladies was just not good at all but he staff guy made her feel fine. He asked all of the other people to step back and let her get some questions for only herself. One time when she answered a question “John F. Kennedy!” he said, “Yes, also known as Jimmy Carter but you know he went by a lot of things back then.” Anyway everyone had a good time and it was really funny to watch. After that we came back to our room and got ready for bed. I am currently writing his post and getting tirrrrrrrreeeeeeedddddd oops, I think I held down a key on he keyboard, that probably means I should go to bed.

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Day 3: Start of Cruise - At Sea

Sumner

Today was tiring at best. We started the day out in Ft. Lauderdale and ended it out of site of the shore. We had breakfast in the hotel and then went back up to get ready to check out of the room at ten. Then we went to the port, Port Everglades. There we dropped off our bags and went to the airport to drop off our car. We took the shuttle from the airport back to the port and went through a very extensive security and check in. Eventually we got to the jet-way. Oh wait, it can’t be a jet-way, we weren’t going on a jet. It did look like it though. Anyway when we got onto the boat it was really cool. It was really grand. We were almost attacked with people with hand sanitizer and everyone was very nice. Then we were told where to go to get to our room and there we put down our bags and then we went to lunch. After a delicious buffet lunch we explored the ships for a little while and then went back to the room to get on our bathing suits to go swimming. After that we watched the embarkation at about 6:00. There is a kids club and a teens club on the ship. The kid club (called club HAL; Holland America Line) had a meeting and so Hannah went to that for a few minutes while mom, Oma and I went to go eat. We learned that I was one of two teenagers on the ship and Hannah was one of about ten or so kids. We were going to try to eat at the nice restaurant but the line was so long that it just wasn’t worth it. We went to the buffet instead. After we had eaten we went up to pick up Hannah. One of the leaders of the club informed us that I was actually the only teenager on he ship. The other “teenager” turned out to be 67 not 17. Someone had made a typo. Anyway Hannah came down to have dinner and then we went back to the room to go to bed.

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Day 2: Ft. Lauderdale FL

Hannah

Day 2

Can you believe it? Tomorrow is the BIG day! We are going on our cruise tomorrow around noon. (Maybe before.) Anyway… Today was the last minute shopping time. Such as Target, Walgreens and  CVS/Farmacy (that is the southern Walgreens.) Today wasn’t very interesting, but I’ll tell you, in 7-9 days, there will be LOTS of news. Well maybe tomorrow will be interesting. Why? Because I will probably tell everyone about and what’s on the boat. It will be VERY exciting. Well I gotta go to bed now, see ya’ll later!

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Day 1: Flight to Ft. Lauderdale FL

Hannah

Day 1

Today was VERY tiring. We had to get up at 3:00 in the morning!! We were VERY lucky to have a driver drive us to the airport. The flight was basically uneventful, except the landing was a little rough. We expected sunny skies, crowded beaches, and fun in the sun. But instead, it looks like monsoon season! Or maybe even a hurricane! The rain is pouring cats and dogs, and the wind in howling like a wolf on a full moon. We didn’t do much today. Just hung out, and got a few other necessities. Tomorrow is VERY exciting. Oma (my grandma and my moms mom) is coming to Fort Lauderdale. (That is where we are staying before the cruise.) AHHH!!! Did you know that Wednesday is when we are leaving for the cruise! I can’t wait! See you all later!

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Another Trip!

Hi everyone, in just a few days (starting on April 30th) Basher Academy will be going on another long field trip in which we will be seeing many of the things that we are learning about in World History.

We will be going on a trans-Atlantic cruise to Europe. While in Europe we will be going to many different countries and seeing many interesting things from Portugal to Greece, Rome to Dubrovnik in Croatia, Athens to Corinth. All of these places we will be seeing history right before our eyes. Just going to Rome is a journey through history but going to Athens, Corinth, Barcelona, and other cities will give us a taste of the cultures of many different countries.

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Looking Back

Sumner

OK now I will tell you what I thought of the trip since that’s the number one question that you ask people when they come back from a vacation. It was great, I was able to see the lives of many different people groups, from the Dao (pronounced: Zow) in Sapa to the Cham in the Mekong River Delta. I got to see rice being harvested, planted and rice fields that were already harvested. One of the sad things that I noticed was that much of Vietnamese culture is based on Buddism. Well I have thouroly enjoyed being able to share this wounderful, rich culture in this blog. I hope that one day I can go back to Vietnam to see my wonderful homeland once again. I’ll be sure to keep a blog that trip too.

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Trip Back Home 12/12/10-12/13/10

Sumner

It was about a for hour trip to Shaghai and then we had an eight hour layover. It was long and hard. We ate a meal and shoped and bored ourselfs to death. Finally the gate opened and we checked our bags and went to the plane. It was a ten and a half hour flight to San Fransisco. I slept and worked on my blog for most of it. We had thought that all the movies that they were playing were going to be bad. One of the ones that they showed was Ramona and Besis. I would have watched it but I thought that it was another of those bad movies and nobody told me that I could watch it. We made it to San Fran and had a three hour layover. Then we had another three hour flight to Denver. We bussed out to our car and were a little worried that our car wouldn’t start. It did and we drove to our house. Hannah slept all the way and mom and I dosed off for a minute or so. Dad luckily didn’t dose off and we made it home safe.

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Saigon,(or Ho Chi Minh City)

Hannah

So, we are back safe in Saigon. No problems on the plane, but the transportation to our hotel was aweful. I guess the guy who was supposed to pick us up, was wrong on the timing, so we waited for about 1 hour, till mom decided to call the guy. After waiting another half hour, the guy FINALLY showed up. He said, wait for 10 minutes, and I will get your ride. But of all things, another guy,( the guy who picked us up at the airport last time,) showed up and said to come with us. So we loaded up the luggage in the taxi, and ALMOST started out agoin, but then, the first guy said to wait another 10 minutes, and he would load us up into a “big” van, the van was the size of the other car, but we FINALLY succeded in getting to our hotel. We got a warm welcome, so that is all to tell you what we did this after noon.

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Fourtyith Day - Saigon 12/11/10

Sumner

Today is our last day in Vietnam. We woke up and ate breakfast. Then we hung out for a fem minutes to find things to do and work on the blog. Then we went shopping for a while. We ate lunch at a place called Wrap and Roll. In this restaurant you were served the food that you ordered with some green vegitables, noodles and rice paper. Then you rooled it all together. It was really good and then we went out and shoped a little more. After that we went back to the hotel and asked if we could have a small room for the night so that we could have a room until we leave at one o clock tomorow morning. They let us and we moved to the other room. Then we went swiming for a while to cool down. After we were refreashed we went to the room and got packed up. Mom and Hannah slept for a while and then I laid down to try to sleep for a while. I never did but my body got to rest. By this time it was about time to fialize out packing and go to the airport. We went down with out bags and got into the car. We made it to the airport but the gate wasn’t opened yet. Some people started to line up and we asked them if they were in line for our flight to Shainghi. They were and so we got in line. I took forever to get up to the desk and when we got there she couldn’t find our tickets! Finally she found ours but she couldn’t find dads! After a while she was able to locate dad’s ticket. Needless to say, we were the last ones at the check in counter. Unfourtunentaly she couldn’t check them to Denver so we would have to spend all of our time in Shanhai with our bags. Then we went to our gate and got onto the plane…(Look at the next post for the rest of the story.)

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Phu Quoc

Hannah

Day… half

Hello, yesterday, arrived on Phu Quoc Island. It will be our 5th  time ever seeing the beach. The ride over to the island was very hard, because we had a 2-3 hour boat ride. The boat went really fast, and was kind of like an airplane, but on the water. mom thought that the ride would be terribly rough, so she took some medicine, but the boat was as smooth as smooth could be. Any way, when we arrived on the island, we had a taxi pick us up, and take us to our REALLY fancy hotel, which is right next to the beach. we can just walk out the door, and go to the beach. Sumner and I played in the beach. It was fun, because both Sumner and I caught a crab. I found a cool shell, and then suddenly a claw stretched out to attempt  pinch me. Though I must say that it was fun seeing it run it’s head of to get to the water. Well we walked a little way to a restaurant on the beach. It was supposed to face the sunset, but it was pitch black all around us, PLUS it was lightning some thing fierce. so we hurried to get to our beach house. I think we will be spoiled here on Phu Quoc, cause we get  a huge house just to our selves. Well goodnight!!

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