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I just spoke with Victoria on the phone and I must say, I MISS HER!!!!! I feel very fortunate to have been able to work with her and more so, to still have her friendship. She is truly one of a kind.
A couple of the boys were in town for the west coast house shows and tapings. It was super fun to see them and hang out again. Sorry everybody, no pics this time....my camera was broken :-( But I must say, and please repeat after me: Alcohol is not a food group....alcohol is not a food group....
From January 15th-Feb 4th, I took the most amazing trip of my life. It was supposed to start off as a quick trip to Paris, but ended up to be an adventure across the globe! We hit Paris, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, and Bali.
Paris- It has always been my dream to go to Paris. Low and behold, I get food poisoning and am sidelined for 3 out of the 5 days we are there :-P It's a great way to lose weight though....kidding! ;-) We did what we called "power sight seeing" (a term we used through out the duration of the trip) We saw The Eiffel Tower which still had its holiday lights on. Every hour the whole thing would sparkle with lights for 10 minutes....breathtaking! Then we went to see The Mona Lisa, Notre Dame, and the Catacombs. I thought I would be horrified to see stacks and stacks of bones everywhere but I ended up looking around in awe and with great saddness. THIS many people had lost their lives in 3 different wars...now there are tunnels and tunnels of their preserved bones beautifully displayed
Singapore- What a clean city! Did you know that chewing gum is illegal there? If you commit a crime, even a small one, your picture is posted in the newpaper and you are subject to be caned. If you are a tourist guilty of a small crime (and this could be jay-walking) you can be fined up to $2000! What a great city to be a tourist in though, they speak English as their first language. This was where I realized one night just how world spread WWE was. Some people kept calling my name on one of the vacation islands and I couldn't figure it out. Did I leave my tour's name tag on? Were they confusing me with some local talent...? Nope! I turned on the TV later that night and ahhh....Smackdown was on!
Kuala Lumpur- We were scheduled to go home after Singapore but my friend Kelly and I decided, heck! We are already half way around the world, it'd be a pity if we didn't stop to see other places. Kuala Lumpur just so happened to be the hub for an airlines called Air Asia (Like Southwest Airlines) So, we continued on our adventure. Here is where we got a good dose of reality. Around the Muslim areas there were signs saying non-Muslims not allowed past this point and huge banners of protest with pictures of beheaded children and casualties of war that left nothing to the imagination.
Phuket- I had heard so many great things about Phuket, we couldn't pass it up! Here we ran into a little snag in our travels....it took FOREVER to go thru customs there and from the time we got off the plane to the time we checked into our actual room (they kept putting us in the wrong room....3 times!) it took about 4 hours...ugh! The days after made up for it though. Kelly and I did a double bungee jump, rode elephants through the jungles, went to James Bond island and took small boats thru the natural island caves, visited a floating fishing village, and had some of the best Thai food ever! But this too was a sobering location. You can hardly believe that this piece of paradise was home to one of the worst natural disasters in the past decade or so. You look around and there are hardly any traces of the devastation left, but it is felt by all. One of our cab drivers lost everything....lost his business, lost his home, lost his wife, and almost lost his son, but luckily they found each other a few short months later. On one particular bend of the road, everyone honks. It is to honor and remember all those who lost their lives, and to remind people to never lose their spirit. It is here in Phuket that I got to witness just how strong the human spirit is. And that we should never take anything for granted because in one quick second, it can be washed away.
Bali- WOW! If there was ever a place I could move to for a year, it is there. I loved every part of it. The food, the culture, the people....ahhh.....This is also the place to go to feel rich. Yes, it may cost an arm and a leg to go half way around the world to get there, but once you're there you feel like royalty! It is 11,200 Rupee for $1. There were places selling t-shirts for 20,000 rupee. Now I know you're supposed to bargain but how can you for a shirt that the starting price is roughly $1.80?!!?! We had lunch at the top of a volcano, saw a temple carved into a giant rock in the ocean, played with monkeys, and I played with a bat that was the size of a small cat.
If you guys would like to see some photos and goofy videos we took of our trip go to my Facebook page and check it out! :-) They should be under my tagged section.
Thanks everyone!
Love & Aloha, Lena
I just spoke with Victoria on the phone and I must say, I MISS HER!!!!! I feel very fortunate to have been able to work with her and more so, to still have her friendship. She is truly one of a kind.
A couple of the boys were in town for the west coast house shows and tapings. It was super fun to see them and hang out again. Sorry everybody, no pics this time....my camera was broken :-( But I must say, and please repeat after me: Alcohol is not a food group....alcohol is not a food group....
From January 15th-Feb 4th, I took the most amazing trip of my life. It was supposed to start off as a quick trip to Paris, but ended up to be an adventure across the globe! We hit Paris, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, and Bali.
Paris- It has always been my dream to go to Paris. Low and behold, I get food poisoning and am sidelined for 3 out of the 5 days we are there :-P It's a great way to lose weight though....kidding! ;-) We did what we called "power sight seeing" (a term we used through out the duration of the trip) We saw The Eiffel Tower which still had its holiday lights on. Every hour the whole thing would sparkle with lights for 10 minutes....breathtaking! Then we went to see The Mona Lisa, Notre Dame, and the Catacombs. I thought I would be horrified to see stacks and stacks of bones everywhere but I ended up looking around in awe and with great saddness. THIS many people had lost their lives in 3 different wars...now there are tunnels and tunnels of their preserved bones beautifully displayed
Singapore- What a clean city! Did you know that chewing gum is illegal there? If you commit a crime, even a small one, your picture is posted in the newpaper and you are subject to be caned. If you are a tourist guilty of a small crime (and this could be jay-walking) you can be fined up to $2000! What a great city to be a tourist in though, they speak English as their first language. This was where I realized one night just how world spread WWE was. Some people kept calling my name on one of the vacation islands and I couldn't figure it out. Did I leave my tour's name tag on? Were they confusing me with some local talent...? Nope! I turned on the TV later that night and ahhh....Smackdown was on!
Kuala Lumpur- We were scheduled to go home after Singapore but my friend Kelly and I decided, heck! We are already half way around the world, it'd be a pity if we didn't stop to see other places. Kuala Lumpur just so happened to be the hub for an airlines called Air Asia (Like Southwest Airlines) So, we continued on our adventure. Here is where we got a good dose of reality. Around the Muslim areas there were signs saying non-Muslims not allowed past this point and huge banners of protest with pictures of beheaded children and casualties of war that left nothing to the imagination.
Phuket- I had heard so many great things about Phuket, we couldn't pass it up! Here we ran into a little snag in our travels....it took FOREVER to go thru customs there and from the time we got off the plane to the time we checked into our actual room (they kept putting us in the wrong room....3 times!) it took about 4 hours...ugh! The days after made up for it though. Kelly and I did a double bungee jump, rode elephants through the jungles, went to James Bond island and took small boats thru the natural island caves, visited a floating fishing village, and had some of the best Thai food ever! But this too was a sobering location. You can hardly believe that this piece of paradise was home to one of the worst natural disasters in the past decade or so. You look around and there are hardly any traces of the devastation left, but it is felt by all. One of our cab drivers lost everything....lost his business, lost his home, lost his wife, and almost lost his son, but luckily they found each other a few short months later. On one particular bend of the road, everyone honks. It is to honor and remember all those who lost their lives, and to remind people to never lose their spirit. It is here in Phuket that I got to witness just how strong the human spirit is. And that we should never take anything for granted because in one quick second, it can be washed away.
Bali- WOW! If there was ever a place I could move to for a year, it is there. I loved every part of it. The food, the culture, the people....ahhh.....This is also the place to go to feel rich. Yes, it may cost an arm and a leg to go half way around the world to get there, but once you're there you feel like royalty! It is 11,200 Rupee for $1. There were places selling t-shirts for 20,000 rupee. Now I know you're supposed to bargain but how can you for a shirt that the starting price is roughly $1.80?!!?! We had lunch at the top of a volcano, saw a temple carved into a giant rock in the ocean, played with monkeys, and I played with a bat that was the size of a small cat.
If you guys would like to see some photos and goofy videos we took of our trip go to my Facebook page and check it out! :-) They should be under my tagged section.
Thanks everyone!
Love & Aloha, Lena
