Thursday, July 25, 2013

Operation Documentation Aquireation

 A Quick Update on us....
We have finally acquired All of Baby Girls' necessary government papers! It was a long process (about 4 months) but the task is complete! We had to venture out of the country to receive the last piece of her papers. The nearest place we could go was Thailand, so we combined business with pleasure and took advantage of the situation by rewarding ourselves with some R&R :) 

Getting ready to board our airplane. It was Baby Girl's first time to leave our city and first time ever to ride an airplane-So we dressed her for the occasion in some sparkly pink kick's ;)

Happy campers on the airplane. Hudson played with color-forms & did other "plane friendly" activities.  Baby Girl mostly "people-watched" and slept :) 
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Part II 
....Just for Fun...

 It never ceases to amaze us how different the world is. The more we travel, the more our eyes are opened. And it is sometimes the little things that take us by surprise, like the way shopping malls are designed in other country's.

This is random, but during our travels in Thailand, we couldn't get over how "fancy-pants" the malls were. The above picture is not Disney World, but just a regular shopping mall {according to Thai standards} that had lots of other forms of entertainment to enjoy besides the obvious shopping experience. In this particular mall there were not only statues of movie characters strategically placed on the same floor as the movie theater, but there were also different themes for each floor. One floor was themed "Tokyo" and was designed to be like you were shopping in the back streets of Tokyo, where as it felt like you were shopping outside on the street instead of inside a nice air-conditioned building. There was also floor designed to be like Istanbul where the atmosphere was just like being in an open-air market in Turkey. 
One of our favorite floors was where the food court & other dinning options were and it was designed to be like San Francisco complete with a Replica of the Golden Gate Bridge!