Celebrating Chinese New Year in Bali...

Bali is always a favorite! Love to spend time there. For Chinese New Year Brian and I traveled to Bali for some fun times. We stayed in Nusa Dua at the Westin. Lovely hotel. The first day we got up at 1:30am to travel out to hike the volcano at sunrise. It's always a fun thing to do. We had a great hike. We also met up with Rachel and Garth for dinner in Kuta. Had a great time. Some of co workers were also at the same hotel so got to have some fun time on the waterslide with the little one. Here are some pictures:

Brian and I at the too of the volcano

At the top

Sunrise hike

At the top

Brian hiking down..

Monkeys on the hike

Just beautiful

Our resort is lovely

Beach time

Pool time

Dinner at our favorite seafood place

Beach was beautiful

Beautiful walk along the beach...

Love bintang 

Girls weekend in Phuket!

Beth, Gia, and I took a quick trip to Phuket Thailand to enjoy the weekend On the beach and by the pool. Fun girl weekend. We spent time at the pool, beach, shopping at Jim Thompson and enjoying the yummy Thai food. Of course we had to enjoy a foot massage :)

Here are some pictures

Gia, Beth, and I 

Pool side 

Sunset at the Hilton

Hilton loves us

Beautiful beach

Beth and Gia in the pool

A weekend in Singapore...

As many of you know, I don't spend a lot of time in Singapore. But this weekend I was in town. Mostly I caught up on sleep and worked but also got some time with friends and running. I captured some pictures of my favorites in Singapore! 

Merlion at dusk - only 82 degrees today so many people out enjoying the mild temps

View of Singapore - apartment to the center left

Beautiful gardens by the bay - a lovely park

View from the park

The city. Apartment is the last building on the left

Singapore getting ready for the biggest holiday - Chinese New Year

Famous Fullerton Hotel and Merlion 

Chinese New Year laterns - famous decorations 

The city at dusk

Ringing in 2014 in Hawaii...

I always love Hawaii! And this year to ring in 2014 with my peeps was the best! Cindy, Mitch, Mike, and I skipped a year of hiking in cold weather to top of some mountain and headed to Kona, the Big Island! Mary and Lena joined us. As well as Michael and Robyn from New York. What a blast! We went kayaking and snorkeling. This included some huge waves as we tried to get back to the beach! Hiked the Volcano National Park - always fun to hike through lava! Then we tackled zip lining - this was fun though I think Cindy would have done without it haha! We also enjoyed some whale watching where we got to see a young whale show off some of his moves! We also enjoyed some pool time as well as time together cooking / grilling meals and meeting new friends. So lucky to have such great friends! I can't wait to tackle more adventures when I return to America later this year.

Here are some pictures from the amazing trip:

The crew at the luau

Hilton Hawaiian village - lovely

Kayaking and snorkeling 

Just beautiful 

Mary and I

Lena and I

The ladies hiking

Volcano National Park

Zip lining

Cindy, Michael, Lena and I

Celebrating the New Year

Kona brewery 

Whale watching

Mary and Cindy on the boat to see some whales

Hanging with our turtle friend

Mitch, Mary, Cindy and I at the luau

Just beautiful sunset

This place is amazing

Sunset view

Cindy and I on our last day

Last beers at sunset