Merry Christmas!

The holiday weekend was filled with eating, shopping, card games, laughter, visiting relatives and friends, opening presents, Wii, and more eating. Melissa and Jeff had time off from work and were able to be in Naperville this Christmas. Mike left the warm weather in LA to spend his three-week break in Naperville. This was the first Christmas in 12 years that I didn’t have to travel to Naperville for the holiday because I live there now! I can’t believe 2008 is almost over and that at the end of January I will have been back in Chicago for a year.

Click here for some Christmas pictures.

Adventures in Macau and Hong Kong

Yesterday I returned from a two week trip to China for my job. I traveled to Macau to work on a casino/hotel project called City of Dreams. Macau is an interesting place - it's a mix of southern Europe, the Orient and Las Vegas. At the end of my trip, I had some time to explore Hong Kong. Both of these areas are a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, which allows them far more economic and cultural freedoms than most of China. So, even though I was technically in China, it was very different than mainland China. A visa is not required to travel from the US to Macau or Hong Kong.

Two of my coworkers from the Chicago office (John and Jen) were also out there with me. All three of us love to take pictures, so the pictures I'm posting are a combination of all of our photos. John is really the expert photographer in the group, so the ones that catch your eye are probably his work. The following two links are for the pictures:
Macau Pictures
Hong Kong Pictures