29 ways to stay creative.

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kids do the darndest things

not saying i would do this, but still - pretty cool

underwater again

time really flew this past year with me being back in school and it didn't feel like it had been almost a year since we dove, but it had been. but we're glad we dove - 6 dives in 3 days - and it felt great to be back in the water. we did 3 out of 4 of the "heavy metal" fla keys wreck dives - the spiegel grove, the eagle, and the duane. on the duane the current was so strong it felt like we were up against 40 mph wind (i was trying to think of how to explain strong current underwater, and the best way is by thinking of yourself on a scooter...driving about 40 mph and what the air feels like on your face, plus add a little pressure from the water. that was kind of like what it feels like when you're hanging horizontal onto a line trying to get down to a depth of 100 ft.). we saw lots of great things on our 6 dives, including those fantastic wreck structures, turtle, tons of fish and barracuda, green moray eel, parrotfish, some sort of tiny shrimp, groupers, permit, moon jellies, shark, lobster, wrasse, squirrelfish, a buddha statue, and the infamous toilet on the back of the spiegel grove (picture below - not us). none of these pictures are ours, but they're so you can see some of what we saw. my only regret is that it took so much work to get down to the duane (meaning we were sucking air fast) that we didn't get to stick around long enough for the 8 foot bull shark that showed up.

the toilet on the spiegel grove

the spiegel grove

tower on the duane

eagle

Flakeys heavy metal wrecks

a few more pictures

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3 of my favorite pics

I haven't gone through all the pictures from the trip to Cambodia yet and we ended up with over 650 pictures so it might take me a while. But here are 3 of my favorites (so far).

at Ta Prohm in front of one of the trees used in Tomb Raider (I'm going to have to see that movie now)

a monkey in front of Angkor Wat. I was really that close to him, no zoom used here - good thing I didn't have any food on me. We saw the monkeys jumping on people trying to feed them (DUH!)

Bayon temple, inside Angkor Thom

These temples were built around 900 years ago and were unknown until rediscovered in 1860 by a frenchie. Our tour guide said they are one of the 7 wonders of the world, but we weren't able to find Angkor Wat on any proper list, so I think he was saying it was a contender for the 7 wonders of the new world which includes the pyramids and taj mahal.

travel, travel, travel!

This will be a short post but just wanted to send a little update on our travels. We had a great time back in DC - still can't believe it had been four years since we were there -
but we had a great time catching up with people and reflecting on how the last four years has been much different than the first three years of our marriage, in a good way.

It is currently about 4:30a where I am (Diana) and 2:30p where Jason is, so it's been difficult to communicate but we are both having a good time doing neat things.
He has been exploring all of SoCal like a madman, staying on a YACHT (!!!) in Marina del Rey, and kickin' it around. He arrives back in Lawrence tonight. And I'm in Siem Reap, Cambodia with my brother. And loving it. Its quite hot here but you can easily get safe food, cheap and unique souveniers, and great service. There are a lot of other travelers but not many Americans so I'll have to take what I can get #stuffwhitepeoplelike.

Gotta go - just got our wake up call to wake up for the sunrise over Angkor Wat. Awesome!

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