Dear Russia,

Добро пожаловать

(I hope that's how you say "Welcome!! :)")

Love, alisonmj

Some of my favorite pictures of Russian things:

here

here

taken from my cousin Rachael's facebook

Dear Germany,

Thanks for visiting my blog! I like your pancakes and my husband speaks some of your language. :)

Love,
alisonmj

Malaysia

I found this shirt on Amazon I was searching for "Malaysia is awesome" paraphernalia on Google.

In the entire life of my blog, I have had 12 views from Malaysia.  Four in the last week.  It is not an astronomically high number in a short amount of time (like my 31 views from Italy that one day).  There are no "search terms" listed leading people to my blog (as has happened with some Spanish stuff I have posted).  It is not a single view, which could be interpreted as someone who mistakenly found my blog.  These reasons lead me to believe that there is not, in fact, some kind of hacker or bot, but perhaps a real person viewing my blog.  If so, Welcome, Malaysian person.  It's fun to have you here. :)

stats

So I decided to check the statistics on my blog today, just for fun.  This week I had 37 views from the U.S. and... 31 from Italy.  I'll be honest - that made me feel pretty cool.  I told Joel and he said, "It might be wrong. Or it might've just been bots." (referring to programs people make to go to websites over and over)  I'm going to pretend it's people, though.  That's more fun :)