See you on da flip side :-)

We have alot of packing to do so I don't think I'll get a chance to update the blog until we get back home from our  Great Adventure.

On Saturday, the girls and I are going to CHINA for a fun  vacation.  We are going with a great tour company called Always and Forever Tours.  They have excellent customer service and I just know they will be the same "in country".

We are going with a group of 6 families - 5 of us were in the same travel group way back in 2003 when I went to China the first time.  I am so glad to be doing this Heritage tour with them.  Honestly, I didn't think I was going to take my girls back until Elizabeth was 11 and Ella 8.  Last year Holly and Lisa did some great research on different tour companies and decided they were going to go with Always and Forever.  In October we all got together (we get together alot) and they were so excited and it sounded so wonderful that I pushed our plans up.  Thankfully the girls got through the winter with no major illnesses so I could save up enough vacation time.  I could not imagine not doing this tour with Holly, Lisa and Matt, Kate and Erick and Mary and all our girls. 

I am going to blog while in China but I have heard that Blogger is blocked there.  So, I have set up another option.  Hopefully that won't be blocked.  It worked for another family about a month ago so I expect it will work for us too.  When we get back I will merge the entries from that blog to this one so I can create a book for me and my girls for all our adventures. 

Here is the address for the travel blog. 

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/joankerk/1/tpod.html

Follow along if you want.  I promise to take lots of pictures.  I will also try to post daily but that all depends on access to a wireless connection. 

See you on da flip side!

Here is Ella with school friends this week during their measurement experiments

Also, I got my hair cut shorter for the trip and I think it turned out nice.

p.s. the different glasses are just what I wear at work so I can see the computer.  ;-)