Change of Plans!!!

Well I decided I better send out an update. I have been horrible lately about blogging, everyone asks me to keep it up while we are gone for the summer, but I wasn't even doing a good job at home. So, don't get your hopes up, but here is my attempt to keep people posted about our lives. :)

So far this summer we have enjoyed NO SCHOOL!!! It has been so nice to have Rivers come home after work!! We spent about 10 days out in Virginia with my brother and his family (which I started a post for w/ pics and never finished it). I had some of the cutest pictures of Sammy and Caleb too. We did some fun things, my favorites were the Air show at Andrews airforce base and going to Hapers Ferry. We also got to visit one of Rivers good friends and his wife in Philly. After D.C. we got a nice trip to Hurricane for Riley and Roberts graduations. Then after a couple more weeks it was up to Vernal to go camping with my family. CLICK HERE for more on that. Then came the roller coaster....................

We were supposed to fly out for Shanghai on Monday, but because of the "U" cancelling our program we stayed to try and figure out what we wanted to do. After a couple of frustrating days dealing with the "U" and trying to get into contact with the Nankai University in Tianjin, we decided "what the heck" we quit our jobs and had planned for this for months, so we were going to fly to China with our without a program or group. If we could take classes great!, if not - we would have an awesome time traveling around. Luckily, we were able to confirm an independent study program at Nankai. This is better because we are saving tons of money by going independently and we still get our scholarship, plus we get almost a month to travel.

So where are we now? Right now we are in Savannah, Georgia!!! Yes, Savannah--why? Well because we have time, and no jobs. :) NO MONEY, but oh well. :) We begin route to Shanghai on Wednesday (standby) and we have been stuck in Atlanta since thursday. We decided to take advantage of our stay so we spent Friday around Atlanta. They have one of the longest escalators I have ever ridden on!!! No exagerration. Also, we went to the Aquarium which was really neat. Saturday after not making onto that flight due to an embargo, we rented a car and drove up to Dawsonville to go to the Kangaroo Conservation Center. Really fun and neat to see some of Georgia's countryside outside of the city and real live Kangaroo's and little Joey's (babies). Then we decided to drive down to Savannah. So here we are. Hopefully we will make it to China in the next couple of days. But we have been having fun!!! Anyway, I will try to keep everyone posted. We love you all.