Have arrived in Toyko on Sunday afternoon. It is to me still Saturday. With the exception of finding out that my flight out of Edmonton was an hour earlier than on my itinerary things have gone smoothly. In true Jennifer style I managed to sleep most of each of my flights waking up long enough to answer the age old question "beef? Or chicken?" Airline food for the masses continues to amaze me in its inedibility. But after sitting on a plane for almost ten hours even airplane food smells good.

My brief look at San Francisco makes me want to go back. I didnt really see the city itself but from the coast in looks amazing and I realized I had forgotten how beautiful the world can be below the Camadian border.

Toyko airport is run as efficiently as I expected and it took no time at all to fi d my way around and arrive at my gate with time to spare.

Next stop Ho Chi Minh City.

Test post from airport in GP

Welcome to my Habitat for Humanity Global Village trip to Vietnam 2013. I will be traveling in Vietnam from Feb 25 - March 16 and will be journaling my adventures on this blog. No promises on how often I will get to update or when there will be pictures posted but it will be an amazing journey so stay tuned.

Today....videos. Apparently I should stick with photography and leave video to the professionals. Most of my videos are sideways...not sure why. So, tilt your head to the side, crank up the volume and enjoy a few videos.

Video taken from inside the bus.

Rebar.

 My Kyle and his friend dancing during the closing ceremony.

At the beach during R&R.

So, Sunday morning...weeks after arriving back in Canada. Have been very busy with interviewing for jobs, visiting friends and family and now packing my apartment in preparation for another cross Canada move. Yep, another move across the country....back to Alberta. Fort McMurray to be exact. I start the new job on June 13th.

Will attempt to get a few more pictures posted from India. The last post contained photos from Chennai,India and todays post is photos from enroute to Pondicherry, India.

I love the colour of all the vehicles. The trucks always seem to be decorated.

Young boys taking a swim in one of the many rivers we passed along the way.

The other bus. We were in two buses along the way and everyone was trying to catch a breeze.

The boardwalk/promenade in Pondicherry.

Early morning walk in Pondicherry. I wasn't sure about crossing over this bridge but once I watched the rest of the team do it I figured it would hold me as well.

Stalls waiting to open later in the day. 

I sat out for a long portion of the walk and just people watched. I wasn't feeling very good that morning which became more evident when I threw up on the way back to the hotel. I think it was just too hot, no water to drink and exercising before I had my breakfast. I spent the first part of the morning at the build site just chilling and enjoying some shade. I felt better after break and was back in the action. 

The cats are having a great time with all the boxes I have in the living room right now...at least cats like boxes.

So...it's been a couple of weeks since the trip to India and I still haven't updated the blog. Well, I've been busy. I'm moving to Fort McMurray, Alberta in a couple of weeks and that has kept me pretty busy...I've been interviewing and now I'm in the packing stage. Yep, busy.

Instead of doing the original update I had intended I am going to select every 25th picture from the trip and tell you about it. OK? Great! Let's do it.

 Picture # 25 taken in Chennai. Typical side street view.

 And this is picture #26...cause I liked it so much. This lady sells fruit at a small market located under an over pass in Chennai.

 And this was from the market...when I started to try and pick out the 25th, 50th and 75th images. I saw all these great images that were not going to be selected and felt that they also needed to be shown...so there goes that idea. This is the 'powder'? that is used to make the dots on peoples foreheads. It is a religious statement and apparently different religions have different dots and different meanings.

 This little bowl is full of powders that are used to make the marks outside the homes on the ground. They make beautiful patterns and the more colourful, the more elaborate the design generally means there is a celebration of some sort going on inside the house.

 Happy smiles from one of the vendors at the market. His wife asked me to take his picture and he was all smiles as I did so.

 This gentleman didn't seem as happy to have his photo taken but I liked how quietly he sat there when everyone was talking and shouting and laughing.

Mmm, fresh produce. I could wander through the markets forever looking at the lovely piles, baskets and groupings of veggies, spices, etc.

Arrived back in Canada safe and sound. Pictures and updates over the next few days.