So as you already know I disappeared from the face of the earth (blogosphere) for nearly 7-8 months...and yeah, I really don't have a good reason for my absence. But anyway, here is where we left off on my previous re-cap:
Then we gallivanted through France & Corsica on our honeymoon:
We spent a few lazy weekends hanging & camping out with friends at our favorite "secret" beach here in Qatar:
We traveled to Jordan for Christmas & visited Petra which is very high on my list of "most awesome old places on earth":
Yup, that is the husband who climbed on top of the ruins...We stayed at the Six Senses & it was one of the most awesome hotels ever...that waterfall is actually a hot spring.
And that brings us up to speed on re-cap part I. Now if you are still with me...on to part II.
In January the "Moms" came out to visit to celebrate the Husband's birthday & we showed them around Qatar (or actually they showed us around Qatar since they had done more stuff in a week than we had in over a year of living here!) & Dubai:
HI MOM!
Ginor showed us how to properly ride a camel.
Next, we had an epic ski adventure in the French Alps, Three Valleys (a trip that deserves its own post at some future point in time):
Suddenly, it was April & off we went to celebrate my birthday in Istanbul, Turkey. (Where, by the way, I bought the most excellent Prada birthday handbag from the Grand Bazaar) Again, another trip that deserves a full post (now only if I could stop being so lazy...).
And that brings us up to my latest adventure....backpacking with Martinez in the South-East Asian country of Laos! (Just wait for the videos - two words - landslides & monks. Yes!)
This trip was amaze-balls. I want to go back and explore more of Asia...like NOW.