Courtney Livingston

We finally made it to Disneyland Shanghai!!! I have been dreaming of going here ever since it opened up in 2016. When I lived in America, I used to go to Epcot and they had a big display in the China section about the new Shanghai Disney and I was so enamored with it, hoping I’d get a chance to go! Little did I know I’d eventually be living in China and this park is just a short flight away from me

Trenton’s parents, his sister, and two of his aunts met us in Paris. We took a girl’s trip to Giverny to see Monet’s gardens. You simply can’t go all the way to Paris and not see Sleeping Beauty’s Castle! The first time we went, we didn’t visit any museums, so this time we took the time to explore a few of them.

I’m going to tell you WHY I’m choosing such a drastic resolution for 2019. But I wasn’t home for long, for soon we were visiting new friends in another part of Asia for a week. Then we arrived home and the Christmas packages arrived- two from my darling mother who is ever so kind to think of her long lost daughter in China- and another from my mother-in-law who was sweet enough to give us our favorite Christmas candies. If a Chinese person orders or gives me something sweet without consulting me (like a sticky rice cake with brown sugar drizzled on top) I will try a bit so as not to be rude.

Here are a few pictures from our getaway to Thailand! We stayed in Pattaya and took a ferry over to Coral Island where we rented a moped and went beach hopping for the day! It was so fun and the water was beautiful. Overall, Thailand was a dark place