China 2004
After a drunken night in Tokyo in 2003, Laura decided that she wanted to learn to speak Mandarin.  Well, it made sense to her.  Fourteen months later she went to Beijing, Xi'an, Suzhou, and Shanghai China for two weeks in June 2004 to practice, and discovered that it was both more and less difficult than she imagined it would be.

 
 

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New Zealand 2004
Brian & Laura spent three weeks in New Zealand, mostly on the North Island, in August 2004.  Highlights of the trip included a visit to the "Hobbiton" set near Matamata, slipping in the mud, and taking the Lynx catamaran across Cook Straight to the South Island.

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Sequoia and Death Valley 2003
What a better way to spend Christmas than looking at huge trees and bizzare rocks? 

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