Trips, trips and more trips!

This is what it's all about folks: the travel. The journey. The adventures. The trips!! Lee and I are officially booked in our flight and hotel for one week in the world-renound Philippines in February, AAAANNNNDDDD we just set up a 4 day trip in March to JAPAN!!! TO SEE THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS!!!
I can't even believe it, in a matter of minutes the next couple months of my life have completely changed! The resort in the Philippines is like a hotel/cottage, an island hut right in the centre of the main White Beach, featuring the social hotspot bars for Night Life. The night before our trip, Lee and I are spending a traditional Chinese New Year's dinner with one of the families we teach, and then the next morning we fly to the main city on the island for a day, then take an overnight ferry ride to fabulous Boracay! Where we will spend the next 7 days suntanning, snorkeling, swimming, drinking and everything else imaginable under the sun!
Then in March we have officially booked our RHCP concert tickets and flight to Japan for 4 incredible days of sight-seeing through one of the most culturally rich and sound islands in SouthEast Asia, not to mention the world! The process and a half it took to get these tickets, however, was unbelievable! After trying every non-English website, and every non-English phone number, we finally paid a visit to our travel agent: it was not her, however, that got us the tickets, but her Taiwanese friend who had moved to Japan that asked HER husband to go to the stadium and personally buy us the tickets himself!! They are currently being mailed to us as we speak :o) We will be spending 4 days in Japan, 3 in Osaka and 1 trekking out to Mt. Fuji, Japan's highest mountain and dormant volcano. Day 3 of this trip includes my first (and Lee's third!!) time seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers; I CAN'T WAIT!!!
On an unrelated note, my family rang in my New Year with an amazing Chanukah slash birthday package!! It was filled to the rim with sweaters, hoodies, pj's, food, toiletries and more, and simply receiving it was the best present I could have asked for!! To help ease the pain of my inevitable aging process, impossible to avoid and approaching closer with each passing day... oy.