Fun things

This is my sparklie sequin hat I got at the market in vietnam! Of course I got a red one bc that's my favorite color! Lili got hot pink, rachel got lavendar and lacey got blue! Soo cool!
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Here I go!

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Tunnels

So we just did our main vietnam activity! Literally every port we get a lot of free time but the best things are doing the sas activities. We just left the cu chi tunnels and I'm amazed! It was great. We had to get up at 6 am to leave regardless of the fact that we had just gotten back at around 2.. Took an hour and a half bus ride up to the tunnels and our tour guide took us thru the whole thing! Everyone I'm sure knows the story of how the vietnamese hid during the war. Well we just got to go in the actual tunnels they hid in! and like walk through them. Well not actually walk bc there like a foot tall but climb thru them I guess. We got to see how they made food, hid smoke, deterred american soldiers, and basically survived bc of these tunnels. Lili and I also shot AK47s!! We got silly straw hats and everywhere we go, everytime we return to the ship some how lili and I always wind up with piles of souviners and little junk! But sooo much of it! Anyway such a great trip its only 11 am and werre already on our way back to the ship.. Goodnight eastcoasters!
MkSeaaaaa
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Nam

Just got off the ship .2 seconds ago... It is scorchhhhhhhhhhing hot I'm actually drenched! We step a food off the ship and get attacked by 800 motor bikers, bicycles, cab drivers everything! I'm freaking out they are stalking us as if they were paparazzi we can't get away from them! I'm kinda liking all the attention! We feel like celebraties! But its so irratating cause we keep saying no and then 50 more come over to us! We just wanna find an atm haha ps this is al happening right now!!! This is going to be a hot longgg sweaty day! Phew I'm dying... We can't find a good cab! Gotta be so careful here! (But don't worry I have my gucci belt bag dad got me in italy in 9th grade on me) hahaha so long
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ohhhh kimbyy

VIDEOSSS

here is what we first experienced at the rayoken.. when we arrived we had a traditional tea ceremony and our little japanese lady friend came and served us different teas and then rapped us up in tradtional kimonos!

Who misses a blogger??

Sooooo much has happened in china phew I'm wipped out I can not nearly try and cover it all... But I really feel like writing about this for some reason... One of the most fullfilling, rewarding things I've ever done in my life. We took a prepaid sas trip to beijing... The itinerary never said anything about visiting a school or orphanage but whn we got on the bus we got a detailed itinerary... Everyone was freaking out that our afternoon at lieasure suddenly dissapeard. To go to a school? Kidss, orphans? Nott interested... WOW let me tell you.. We were wrong.. The school orphanage was created by a man who's family was badly burned in an explosion... And he went bankrupt trying to pay meidcal bills and wound up begging for money on the streets.. While doing this he met many orphan children and started takeing them in and helping them eventually he got the government to pay for his family medical bills and started a school and home for orphans... He now has 100 children and he teaches them and takes care of them... They receive many donations and voulenteersm.. We went there and our job was to first clean and then play with th children... My bus as assigned the library and we maybe organized thouuuuuusands of books into piles by size. The books were all over the floor shelves spread out everywhere... We got everything off the floor and here is proof that I got on my hands and knees and swept the floor! And I actually enjoyed it... Noone is going to believe me I know but remember I went to camp for 8 years and I haaaavve used a broom before contrary to what you readers may believe. Lili was quite impressed with me and she snapped the picture when I wasn't even looking! All in all bejing was incredible. I love that we have time to explore on our own in lots of cities but doing a group trip for beijing was the best idea ever. There is soo much to see and learn and our tour guides were amazing. Oh haha so out of 98 people on the trip 11 were vegetarian and at every group meal we went to they had "vegetarian tables" thank god my friend chelsea was with us and vegetarian also so we got to sit together but honestly it was the funniest thing of life at every meal we had to be like ok bye friends gotta go sit at the vegetarian table. We did rickshaws and there were even vegetarian rickshaws because after our ride we were brought into peoples homes for dinner. It was beyond the most incredible once in a life time experience that they brought us into their homes and cooked us dinner... We even learned how to make dumplings! I'm so impressed with the trip sas set up for us and I don't think other people got to experience that kind of homey enviornment.. Anyway I just wanted to do a quick update... Were just exploring hong kong and totally loving all of china ugh its fabulosoooooo. I'm never coming homeeeee!
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shang

Just left the park hyatt with lili had a great night with the geller fam oh man what a crew we got it onnn they took us up to the 94th floor of the tallest building in shanghai to a beautiful bar with live music..... We didn't know it was ladies night and by ladies I mean gay bar all night but we just went with it me and lili looked like a couple because of the shiny matching headbands we purchased earlier today... We just dannced to the music of the live band and guess what... He let me take over the miccccc obv I owned it and the crowd went wild! Were walking back onto the ship right now and every second it sounds like someone just got shot but not to worry its just all the fireworks going off everywhere in celebration of the new year.... Going to try and get as much sleep as possible um we have to be up in 4 hrs for our flight so I gotta go and be silly and pack w lillllssss I know she's a little (woo hoo) when she tells me she wants to listen to MY MUSIC (aka blasting house) as were packing/going to sleep... Ah the ship approaching the steep stailwell up to the 5th floor and getting our bags searched and patted down weirdly makes me feel like I'm home.. Adios
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My new obession

So since my family couldn't come visit I'm living vicariously thru kimby and hers... Here we have her glamourous sister suzie who today purchased a delicious silk rrrrrrr(roll the r)obe from the silk factory modeling the adorable red equine bow lili and I bought for kimby when we were off on our own... Today lili and I purchased matching head bands and hats to keep us warm in beijing... Um so we went to visit my new family who is staying at the ritz and they fed us with amazing food and oodles of wine which resulted in mucho sillyness.... Just wanted to blog about my new adopted family and lili and I are doin aright venturing thru shanghai on our own don't you fret! Tomorrow at 5 am off to beijing either we can't go to sleep tn or we will miss our flights bc we are very sleep deprived and I can't wait to be sleeping in on a plane just for a few hours everything here is non stop its like a mix of nyc vegas and miami so were in loveeeeeee w shanghai. Ps I know I shouldn't be sying we wanna sleep and that we have been at kimbys hotel (the ritz) on the concierge floor the entire afternoon but let me tell you the views were fabulous and we sw everything u need to know about shanghai. Including fabulous fireworks in celebration of the last day of the new year!! Soooo fun!!
Pps I just asked lili how to spell shei shei. (Which means thank u in chineese) and she hhmmmmmmmed hahahahahahahha cracking up (kimby u will die) okay byee!!!
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First shanghai pic!

We are still waiting on the ship for everyone to get cleared through customs its 32 degrees out I'm actually freezing I was not made/prepared for this weather whatsoever so this is going to be a very rough 8 days! Soo excited to be in china and we already have a whole list of vegetarian places to try! Kimbys fam is here so we just went outside to find them and wave!!! They're silly... Can't wait to go exploring. Today we are going to the water village which is like the venice of china! Talk to ya laterrr guys!
-molly shanghai
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Fellow blogs

Check out kimbys blog for the detailed itinerary of japan at www.seakimby.blogspot.com and of course mine for lots of laughs :) lili's is coming up soon... She's slow...
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Evening activities

A few nights ago we met all our our crew at ice bar tokyo. It was right near our hotel in ginza and we just walked there. They give us huge eskimo jackets as seen in the picture and some people even put on the boots. My toes and fingers were numb! Everything was made out of ice literally the bar the walls and even when u order a drink they give it to u in a block of ice with a hole in the center! They only let u stay for 45 minutes so afterwards we went bar hopping for a while untill we settled down at a club called feria where we danced the night away!! I just love to dance I don't even care about the drinking part but I just grab my dance partner jayne and we get down! The music was so great there reminded me or miami just enough ugh what a great night!
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Dinner

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Breakfast

I just want some tofu scrambled!!!!
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Rayoken

We are at this traditional rayoken hotel in kyoto. So much to say about it... Last night we arrived and they took us to our rooms and brought us tea. Afterwards our little japanese friend girl who does everything for us brought us all kimonos to get dressed for dinner... We took so many pictures and were actually cracking up so ull see them later.. So me lili and kimby all SHUFFLED along with our japanese friend I forgot her name and she brought us to our dinner room. We ate with three other girls here from sas. It was an 11 course meal.. Not the one pictured above. Lili has a picture of each piece of food we literally received. Usually each course waslike a taste of something and every course included fish of some kind. I CANT EAT ANY MORE FISH. Last nught we also had to pick what we wanted for breakfast this morning. Ull see in a second. Anyway dinner last night was vial but it was like what they consider gourmet feast like they gave us so so so so much food and we would just laugh everytime they brought us something out.. Such an amazing experience though... So all of us were soo fished out. Next we go back to the room to get ready for our bath. Lili and I showered in our room and then we all put our robes back on to head to the communial bath. I wish more than anything I had a picture but yes the three of us got naked in a bath together, wait.. Made of wood. Like a wooden nugget or something hahaha sorry I'm sure this sounds so weird/strange to you guys but it was sooo fun and funny for us.. We we're just naked in a tub of wood. Ha okay then we rubbed all these silk oils they had on our arms and legs and sprayed lavendar and all this delish smelling stuff and shuffled back upstairs... We got back and all our beds were set up three huge futons on the floor in the middle with huugee comforters sooo warmm ugh then we called robco for.a little an we were all cracking up. PS THANK YOU TOM EIN AND BRAD FOR DOING THIS FOR US!!! So we debated going out for a walk but we were just too comphy here and it was so late and we were so tierd from the last two nights so we turned on our flat screen tv only to find that every channel was in japaneseee ugh I passed out. 745... Lilis alarm goees off 815 japanese friend walks in... I'm still sleeping... Exhausted... (This was all just now btw) I finally get up because the woman needs to move our beds to set breakfast up... Remeber how I said we had to order breakfast when we got here... Miss kimberly ordered a regular western breakfast... LILI AND I ORDERED TRADITIONAL JAPANESE BREAKFAST why? I don't know. That is what is pictured above. That is the reason why I'm writing this and want to throw up right now. We all stared at kimby with her little bread basket and omlette and fruit and coffee.. More fish that's what we got. And never again do I want to look at a piece of raw or cooked fish... 2 days to go... Good think I have plenty of bars... Will blog more about other things that went on in japan remember this is not in order!!!
-moco kyoto
Ps I woke up w messages from litrerally 5 different people this morning saying they love my blog so thanks everyone :)!!! Miss you!
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Hotel Ibis

This was our hotel room from the first night... Tooooo funny. Does anyone know about the bathrooms here? They're soooooo weird they all have bidets.. I've never used one (and I didn't dare try it either) but we were cracking up about how different everything is and the culture and cleanliness... Don't have a pic of the second hotel but the first night we stayed in roppongi which is like where you go out the second night we stayed in ginza which is more of a upper scale shopping district.. The hotels were very different... Supprisingly the ginza one was a lot cheaper! (And a lot nicer) the shower was great too in case you were wondering and they gave us all little like bags with toiletries in it everyone had a field day over that! They were both convienently located to trains so it was so easy (and fun) getting around everywhere! Okay ugh getting tierd I think I need to nap now... Adios
-moco tokyo
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Traditional Japanese Meal

Finally relaxation we've been going nonnnn stop for literally 72 hrs and were exhausted. Just sat down on the bullet train and I'm gunna try and show you as much as possible before I pass out/phone dies whichever comes first haha so these are random stories, tales, adventures, journeys, thoughts, comments not in any specific order so here we go!! Last night we walked around ginza and found a traditional japanese restaurant it was AMAZING we had homemade tofu a lot of sake and tried such great newthings... They steamed rice for us at the table and that's what you see in the picture. Everything was so fresh and we got these amazing vegetables that we so good and a little spicey. But I'm not a huge foodie so just know it was the best meal in japan so far :).
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Yuck

so I went to the largest fish market in the world to see all the fresh dead fish which to be truthfully honest is the only animal that I doooo eat. Heard it was a must see and me lili and kimby thuroughly enjoyed running around the playground in 0 degree weather without jackets and in our clothes from going out... Letttt me tell you. I'm completely rethinking eating fish the scene was vial. Most of what we saw was still alive if not it was covered in blood and guts.. Its about 6 am now we've been here for two hours and the market is poppin!! Woww how this goes on every single morning is unbelievable.. Really sorry about being breif I'm cold and freezing and tierd and maybe a little tips but really not really compared to lili hahahhah oh man we make quite a team us girls. I can't even explain how many trucks, vans, moving carts, speeding at us we had to diverge.... Almost died/got run over 50 times but most of the time we would just go around saying the only japanese phrase we know to people and try and take pictures with them... Found fellow sasers and a lot more of our friends. So glad we got thee earlier bc now we have more time to sleep. I'm actually exhausted and tomorrows another jammed packed day.. Still rethinking the whole fish thing ill have to discuss that with my fellow vegans.. Truly an amazing experience and ugh what a fabulous long day... Did I tell you I got 5 jackets/hoodies/sweatshirts... Ugh yess love the shopping here but that's a whole nother topic...
From the future fish you may be eating at a sushi maki or tenjin near you...
-MKSEA, OUT.
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RAMEN!

First time I'm reporting about food so here we go... It is NOT easy being vegan in another country let alone one where you can't even read anything on the menu. Although everyone left the ship at different times we all wound up arrive at the hotel at the same time approx 2ish... We checked in put our bags down and then about 11 of us were starving and we started walking around. Now my good friend lucas has family in tokyo and has been here numerous times so he's sorta leading the pack in a way.. we walked into a random ramen place because that was what everyone wanted to try... I don't say anything of course becusse I know its going to be difficult for me anywhere we try to go! Sooooo we sit down and of course lucas can speak some japanese so he's helping everyone order and point to pictures and communicate with the waitor... Here are some girls that are with us eating their ramen! I stook with white rice for now but I'm hoping to get adventurous... A lot of controversey whether or not I should try kobe beef in KOBE... I say no but people are saying otherwise.. All in all its not about what I'm putting in my mouth but about being in this foreign city with such cool people my age! Tonight we go out!!! All the clubs and stuff are right outside our hotel and after lunch were going to walk around one of the shopping areas... So we tried ramen but I'm really looking forward to the sushi!!! Will it be as good as tenjin?? I will let you know...
-MKSEA
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Action shot!!

So we made it off the boat!! Finallyyyy!! Its took us about an hour and a half to walk from the port to the subway to get to the main yokohama station to pick up our rail passes to get to tokyo! Pheww! I'm wipped. Few are ahead most are behind because they let us off the boat by "sea". Your sea is basically where ur room is located so we are the red sea. Anyway were are now on the JR going to tokyo should be about a 45 minute ride. I'm standing up bc its pretty packed lili managed to jack a seat. When I get tierd I plan on sitting on her. Haha just kidding. On our agenda today... SHOPPING and lots of ittt!!!!! But first were gunna drop our bags off at the hotel. Ps thanks or should I say, oragato, robco for booking it for us! U da best! So excited to be in japan its gunna be such a cool experience and its so clean!!! Pps forcast called for rain but there is no sign of it anywhere!! Hopefully I didn't just speak too soon. So happy to be here yayyy much more to come!
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Me and kimberoni on picture day!

This is my twin kimby everyone gets us confused on the ship (both staff and students) do you see the resemblance?
PS check out my really cool semester at sea spring 2010 voyage shirt!!!!
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Let's try something else

So for some reason I couldn't send the picture from my computer but it works thru my phone (weirdest thing ever) so well try something else... Plus I already used up all my free internet time so I'm gunna have to get some minutes when we get back on the ship after japan!
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wow

okay so its like 2 am here and im still up for some reason.. let me remind you i've never made it up past midnight here.. okay thats a lie maybe once was up until 12:45 but still this is so late! AND WE WENT BACK ANOTHER HOUR. no longer in guam... now on actual japan (tokyo) time. it was good speaking to some of you already though this morning (aka mom and dad). Global was ok 50 mc questions suffered through it. people were actually falling off their tables during the test. speaking of which i bring some devastating news... because were in such a bad storm (there was an earth quake in japan and theyre on tsnuami watch holy s**t) were going even SLOWER than we normally go and are now going to arrive to japan behind schedule.. not sure when though.. tonight lili and i hosted a get together in our room about 10 people were here it was quite fun first time we ever did that in such a small space.. supposidly theyre going to have the super bowl on for us in the morning which is very exciting but we shall see if that actually works or not.. i started making a "BEST OF SAS" folder on my computer so ill try and post one of those photos as often as possible.. this picture is from the mix and match dance party we had a few nights ago.. ENJOY

love and miss you all have a wonderful super bowl sunday

-MKSEA

hello again,

let me first say that i really did try to study for this global studies test.. i really tried.. but i got so nauseas from reading in this ridiculous condition we are in i had to go to my room and lay down for a while.. and now i'm back but i'm doing everything i can to avoid going back to reading for this test.. i know i'm getting a C anyway so whats the point? id rather fill you guys in with whats going on here.. okay secondly.. i'm obsessed with this blog and think its so much fun and i'm always thinking of things i can write about so sorry if it becomes excessive. thirdly, i would like to just say that the time of day that it says i posted so far are all incorrect and i have since fixed the time zone so that it coincides with where i am. okay so my computer died to be continued...

Help!!!

Can't decide what to have for breakfast..... What do you think????
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Good Morning Followers!!!

this morning i woke up and lili looked at me and said... "molly dont you feel like were crashing.. like were on the titanic or something".. uhh not quite lili but we are bouncing around like crazy!! so our fabulous captain tried three different routes to diverge a storm and now in order for us to get to japan on time we have to go right through it! oh wait.. did i mention today is our first global studies test? the ship has been going crazy over this test, study groups, review sheets all around its one big joke to me but hey some people never adapt that philosophy (dont worry ive put in my fair share of studying too).. anyway the whole boat takes it at the same time so at 7 pm tonight we all spread out all over the ship to take it. cant wait to get it over with!! and then tomorrow is asia day... which means its the day before we get to ASIA! finally!!! it feels like forever and everyone is super pumped for japan... in celebration of ASIA day... lili and I booked massages and manicures! YAY! cant wait to finally relax after this very stressful day.. anyway i wake up at the crack of dawn here because every other night we turn the clock back another hour! so to you east coasters .. have a wonderful evening....im officially in the middle of nowhere as i am on the same time zone as GUAM... In other words I'm 15 hours ahead.. well i gotta go start my day.. gym time is in 20 min!

SI-YA-NAR-A
-MKSEA
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the girls on land!

chelsea, eliana, me, jayne, sam, rachel, kimby, dominique, lili

Here we gooo!!!!
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Wow how cool is this!!!!! I woke up this morning to an email saying I have my own blog! How awesome... So I'm not quite sure how to use it yet but I'm gunna figure it out and play around with it when I get off this internet incapable ship! Thank g0d for my (at&t) blackberry with unlimited data otherwise I couldn't have even been doing this!! But I'm very excited about it and will update you as much as I can about what's going on both on and off land.. Yours truly from the future....
-MKSEA
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