Quick post but I need to share.  I have talked about the pottery place here in the ‘Kou before, but today we found the secret room!  I found a ton of name brand stuff, like Rachel Ray.  I ended up buying several items for 147RMB… roughly $23US.  The Rachel Ray piece with the lid retails for about $50.00 (I looked it up).  I am attaching some photos so you can see for yourself.  This is one of those times that I wish I had a portal so I could bring all of my family and friends to get these amazing…

Just booked my ticket for Vietnam for about one week over the Christmas holiday with my Asia BFF Jen and her family.  Super, super excited!

Although situations can be good, bad, or ugly, there is something to the old saying that life is what you make it. On Friday, there was a party for one of the girls that I blogged about as not being particularly nice to me and a big part of me didn’t want to go… but there was another part of me that did want to go.  It sounded like fun.  And she is also the type of person who brings the party, which is well, fun. And when I say there isn’t a lot to do here; I am not…

I am enchanted with Istanbul. Coming from a place that literally tears down or throws out any thing in the name of progress, to a city that revels in it’s rich history, I am memorized.  From a grey enclave to a landscape littered with the divine, I am sold. Okay, the traffic is a nightmare in Istanbul; I can’t lie.  It makes going up the 5 in Los Angeles a bit of a cakewalk really.  And I know for a fact that the Grand Bizarre slick Willy did not ‘make me the best price possible,’ but I really love what…