Road Trip Scrapbook - Finished!

It took me quite a while to take some snapshots of our finished scrapbook from our 2013-2014 road trip. I find that making scrapbooks for everyday life is a little boring and I can't motivate myself to keep up. I tend to make scrapbook for things like road trips and vacations, like I did for my 2012 visit to New York (when I unexpectedly got engaged AND married) although I still haven't made a scrapbook for our formal wedding ceremony OR our honeymoon! Talk about inconsistent!

Going through and looking at these scrapbooks brings back so many great memories that just plain photo snapshots couldn't capture.

In fact, I don't know why I even stopped adding to this scrapbook! I still have a ton of Instax film, there are still tons of empty pages in the Smashbook and my scrapbook kit I put together for travel is still in its box. I think I will resume scrapping until I run out of space! Let's make it a promise. Maybe I will do a biweekly update of my progress on the blog as well.

The Happiest Pandas - San Diego Zoo

I promise I won't show too many more posts with zoo animals, but the pandas were just too awesome! Pandas are Joes favorite animal and it's the reason we first started calling each other "bear." These pandas were the entire reason we went to the zoo at all! We had to wait in line to see them for about 45 minutes and some crazy guy was trying to throw popcorn in the exhibits... but anyway, we waited and waited, taking a goofy touristy photo and then passing by the Red Pandas (which are SO cute!) and some kind of smelly animal (sorry, smelly guys... I forgot your name) and when we were almost there to see them the line stopped! Ugh! We were getting annoyed because we were so anxious... but it turned out we were lucky the line stopped since they were bringing out the bamboo! Oh boy, these guys were munching happily! Joe was more excited than I've ever seen him.

Papa Bear with the other papa bear, Gao Gao.

The happiest panda you ever saw!

Mama Bear and Cub with the other mama and cub, Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu.