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Looking Back: Our First Year Of Marriage

Griffin Stewart — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:00:50 +0000

Just wanted to share a video of some pictures from our first year of marriage and also let you know how you can make a similar video. First, enjoy the video. Most of these are pictures of places we have been together. A few actually have us in them. It has been an amazing year!

How To Make One Yourself

To make your our video similar to this one, go to pummelvision.com as you may have guessed from the video. There you can pull pictures from Flickr, Facebook, Dropbox and a few others. You’l have to authorize pummelvision to allow access to the account you choose and then also let it know if you want to publish to Vimeo or YouTube, so you can instantly link it to anyone on Twitter, Facebook, etc. After that, put in your email address and wait a few hours to a couple days and pummelvision will email you when your video is ready.

Bonus Video!

Griffin has been taking pictures every couple of days and posting them to his Facebook account. Here is a video of all of them. These are taken and edited on an iPhone. Enjoy!

Elephant Riding in Thailand

Griffin Stewart — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:52:00 +0000

On September 10th, we woke up early to head to the jungle for some elephant riding. The weather was perfect and we could not have asked for better temperatures. We were picked up at our hotel and took a quick trip around the island to pick up some other trekkers. When we arrived, we walked down a trail to the river where we were able to watch the elephants bathe and play in the water. We were then invited to sit atop the large animals while they playfully splashed water on us. Valerie was allowed to ride one of elephants back up the trail so we could get started with the ride!

When we arrived back at the hut, we were greeted with fresh pineapple and bottles of water. We were then ready to board a two-seater basket balanced on the back of our elephant. About 6 elephants caravanned through a well-known jungle trail carrying a dozen excited island guests, ourselves included. We rode as the elephants each went up and down steep hills and waded across small rivers. The gentle elephants were also kind enough to stop and pose for photographs. After the 1 and 1/2 hour ride, we arrived safely back at the hut where we were given bananas to feed the elephants, a reward for their hospitality to us. We, ourselves, were given fresh coconuts, cut open at the top and served with a straw. Though they were a bit too bitter for our liking, they were very tropical looking. =)

All in all this was a highlight of our trip and certainly an unforgettable experience for both of us. Check out the video and photos below to see more.

For our honeymoon we went on a three week trip to Thailand and Cambodia before heading to South Korea to start our new jobs as teachers. One of our favorite memories was swimming with and riding these gentle giants through the beautiful jungles of the tropical island of Koh Chang. Enjoy!

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Some of our favorite pictures are below. To see all the pictures from this trip and others, check out our Flickr page here. Enjoy.

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Honeymoon Top Ten

Griffin Stewart — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:37:42 +0000

We had an amazing honeymoon. I am so thankful that God worked it out so that we were able to spend three weeks exploring South East Asia together and so thankful to have a wife that wanted to forego the typical honeymoon destinations. Because of this and the fact that our plane ticket will soon be re-embursed by our Korean Schools, we were able to enjoy three comfortable weeks of adventure travel for the price of roughly one week of resort destination travel! Here are our top ten favorite Things we did on our honeymoon and some pictures to go along with them.

10. Going to day and Night Markets in Cambodia and Thailand

9. Exploring the Floating Market

7. Relaxing on the beach

6. Going to the Snake Show in Thailand

5. Snorkelling in Koh Chang

4. Petting and walking with Tigers

3. Bathing elephants and trekking through the Jungles of Koh Chang on them

2. Exploring the Ancient Temples of Angkor Wat

1. Growing Closer to each other and while enjoying God’s creation and different cultures/adventures

Some other Favorites that didn’t make the list are:

11. Having delicious fresh fruit shakes every meal

12. Mopedding around Koh Chang and Exploring The Beautiful Water Falls in Koh Chang

13. Seeing the Bridge Over the River Kwai in person

14. Riding a Tuk Tuk

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