around the city

 Adorable grade school marching band!

Yep. Strap a tree to your bike and the day begins.

4 more days until australia!

We found the key to our file cabinet this week. This is a huge highlight considering we couldn't open the file cabinet for the past 2.5 years, and weren't sure what was inside. It must ahve been important if it was locked, we reasoned.

Ok- this was actually T's file cabinet and so he knew, but I was really curious. He went through the contents with serendipity and boredom, tossing old files from former work, while finding his paperwork to get a driver's license in China! He had taken a test and had the proper stamps and certificates to obtain a license- all he has to do is turn it in! Finally.

With the new space, we organized every paper floating in our house. My random sketches, tax forms, medical receipts and letters from Gramma. Now everything has a home- it felt good to get things in order. Paper is our main form of clutter. Mail. Bills. Neglected RSVPs. (We received a wedding invite on Oct 6th, with a US post mark of Sept 10th?! Way past their rsvp date.... sorry!)

4 more days until australia!

We'll be heading to Melbourne, Yarra valley for a wedding, then cairns (great Barrier reef), and Sydney. Packing, packing...

Packing is a paint for both of us. We both forget stuff. We are list makers who lose lists.

We forget electric plug adapters A LOT (we found 6 HK ones, since we buy one everytime we go there) and then packing for opposing climates- if its summer in SH I'll forget socks, if winter I'll forget sunglasses.