Matt and Ashley Faus

I know I’m late on this update, but life gets a little crazy sometimes A couple of weeks ago, my sister was out in LA looking at colleges, so Matt and I flew down to hang out for the weekend. My brother drove down from Santa Barbara to meet all of us as well.
We [...]

Aural skills ARE valuable!! Matt and I recently began attending Berryessa Valley Church. It’s a small church, with a laid-back feel and theologically sound preaching. We were excited to find this place, since several of the other churches we visited seemed to be putting on a show. Matt and I are excited to get involved [...]

We attended some cool, and often under-publicized events at the Beijing Olympics. A few highlights from the Games:
- Watching Mongolia win their first medal in the history of the Olympics! They took Gold in one of the Men’s Judo Events.
- Hanging out in the suite at Trampoline Gymnastics with my mom and sister! Those athletes [...]

The past 10 days have been a whirlwind of incredible events, and now it’s time to head back home.  China was a lot of fun, but traveling this much is always very tiring.  We filled our last day, yesterday, up to the brim.  We started off the morning attempting to find our way to the [...]

We landed in Beijing, where we met our RoadTrips guides. They picked us up in a charter bus… and we had the whole bus to ourselves!
We went up to the Great Wall one day, and it was a workout! The Great Wall is MASSIVE, and it has really steep steps at several different spots. Two [...]

I know you have all been anxiously awaiting my thoughts on the Beijing trip, so I figured I needed to hurry up and blog!
My family had a lay-over in San Francisco before the flight, so we took them out to dinner. After dinner, they came back to check out our place! It’s really nice to [...]

Hey everyone, I just uploaded 20 pictures from our first day in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic games.  Check them out!  I will be sure to fill in more detail in the blog later.  Needless to say, it’s awesome!

After asking Ashley to marry me, I was invited to go on the Howard family vacation this summer.  Lucky me, it was slated for the 2008 Beijing Olympics!  As Hiro Nakamura (from Heroes) would say Yatta!!!
Frank (my father-in-law) does business as a woven-basket manufacturer in Hong Kong, so on our way to Beijing we stopped [...]