Back in the Saddle

Well it’s been a long time between posts, but I am finally back in the saddle and hope to be a bit more regular this year – we’ll see how things go.

Back in May I spent a week in Guangzhou, southern China, for a work conference. This was a great experience and Guangzhou is a fantastic city where you can see both the old and new China, often on opposite sides of the street. Xing Ping market was a highlight, and when you get into some of the back alleys and side streets of this market you get a real feeling of being in a totally different world.

In June we went back to Australia for our annual summer vacation. Jenene and the kids left 1 week earlier than I did, so it was very quiet and lonely here in Korea during that time. We had a great time back in Australia with some really memorable highlights:

Teaching Harper to surf and seeing how much he enjoyed it

Catching up with all our school friends and their families in Brisbane

Having a lunch and movie date with my beautiful wife

Taking my Mum out for dinner and spending some quality together

Celebrating Promise’s 5^th birthday with family and friends

Spending lots of fun time with the cousins in Bundaberg

Spending a day with Brent – I haven’t engaged in conversation like that for a long time

Having an awesome early morning surf with Frog and Schuhy, and then the 3 of us joining Jorgo for breakfast

On our way back to Korea we stopped in Singapore for 5 days, where we did lots of sightseeing and spent lots of time in the hotel pool. This was great because I got to teach Promise how to swim, and she picked it up really fast – she is a real water girl. The kids really enjoyed Singapore, and Harper thinks that we should go and live there after our time here in Korea – who knows, we
may end up there one day.