Game of the Week: Goblin Sword

Game of the Week: Goblin Sword

Platform: iOS     Cost:$1.99 As a very well reviewed game, Goblin Sword did not disappoint. Do not get confused though, this game has no education value, and did not stay on my iPad for long. After keeping track of the game on TouchArcade, I decided to give it a shot....
Bali, pt2: Cooking, coffee and

Bali, pt2: Cooking, coffee and

Bali, full day #2: we started early leaving the hotel around dawn to take a rice paddy hike just outside of town, planning to end right at the hotel hosting our vacation-staple: a cooking class. We ended up missing a turn and what we expected to be a 45 minute hike...
App Essentials: Gneo (ToDo)

App Essentials: Gneo (ToDo)

Platform: iOS Cost:$4.99 GNEO is a productivity app geared for helping you manage and sync your todo lists. In my search for productivity tools that I can use on the iPad, I always shied away from GNEO – simply because of the price. After adding it to my...
Bali, pt1: arrival and Ubud hike

Bali, pt1: arrival and Ubud hike

It’s Bali time! We have lots of beautiful photos and some fun stories to share. I’ll break it into a few posts to keep things manageable. Most Bali visitors stay about a half hour from the airport at the Kuta beaches – famous party scene, surf, white...
20 Hours in Hong Kong

20 Hours in Hong Kong

Fall break! 11 full days with no kids – it’s the longest break besides Christmas. We crammed a whole lot of relaxation into our time away: 7 days in Bali, Indonesia with a 20-hour layover in Hong Kong on the way. And we still had a couple days on Jeju at...
Girls in Seoul

Girls in Seoul

While Patrick was in Manila getting Google-educated, I decided to spend the weekend in Seoul with my good friends Melissa and Melissa. (Yep, that gets confusing sometimes). Melissa P was taking her LSAT on Sunday, which meant we had Friday night and Saturday to relax...
Game of the Week: First Strike

Game of the Week: First Strike

Platform: iOS     Cost: $3.99 Another game on the long list of iOS titles. It never ceases to amaze me how rapidly innovative games are added to the iOS app store. It is mind-blowing to think of the sheer number of people who help fuel all of our gaming habits on this...
Jeju walking festival

Jeju walking festival

Yesterday (November 8), Patrick and I walked another Olle Trail, as we often do on weekends. This time, however, we walked with several hundred other walkers as part of the Jeju Olle Trail Walking Festival. For those who haven’t kept up with our Olle adventures,...