G2 try out

Went to Descanso garden to try out my new toy. I think I need little more time to get used to the functions...but anyway....here are the photos...

I know....not exactly pleasant to look at....but focusing on the flies was cool....lol

not my friend....but looked alright....

Spider web was hard to focus on....

Bunch of photos of trees and lotus....plus dragon flies, moth, and bee....





Two cat pictures....

Here is Billy's newest dish. He cooked those scallops and Katty came over for dinner...I really liked the dish cuz the salad dressing was nice :)

Photos from Eva's wedding.....

Went to Eva's wedding last Sat. She is a friend who was in our prayer meeting for a year or so. She is also from Hui-Ling jie's fellowship so it was nice to see Hui-Ling jie after our last crab dinner get together....There was really nothing much to say about the wedding since I am not a big wedding fan. The special music sounded scary and I am not gonna say why....lol....I could of put some of photos of bride and groom but then they all turned out kinda blurry and messy from where we were sitting....plus they are not really in my close friend circle anyway so I guess nobody reading this blog would care much....hahahaha.....For one thing the couple looked happy at the wedding and that is always a good start I guess....:p

Here are few photos taken after the wedding and at the banquet. I wore the pearl necklace grandma gave me so here are the photos to prove to her I got it. That is if someday I can show her the photos....lol....The pink pearls worked really well with my dress :)


The hotel where dinner banquet was held felt very Latin American...

At the banquet...yeah I actually went to the dinner cuz I know who I would be seated with....food was no good but oh well....

Pittsburgh, Last Day

Last day of our trip we still woke up relatively early and had breakfast at M's on the way to our final destination. McDonald's here had a very weird breakfast sandwich which we don't have at LA.....

So here is our final destination before we head home to LA. It's a house that is built on a waterfall by a famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It's basically in the middle of nowhere and we had to drive around 2 hours to get there from where we were....

The little area with flowers was kinda cute.....but we also looked dumb staring at the camera while everyone was passing by....

I think this was the 1st time I had chance to take photos of butterflies....got one with broken wing and another black one...


Creek from the fall....and there is the house...covered with a lot of trees around it....

Really not much to say about this place. I guess it was just really green and building a house on a fall was kinda interesting....

Last look of the house before we left...

Back to LA after a long flight....and I was very happy to see my cats....:)

Pittsburgh trip day 3 @ State College, PA

Well....3rd day of our trip is actually the reason why we had the trip to start with. Xiao-Zhen was getting married and it's out of the blue so we were the family representatives other than her own immediate family. We drove around 2 1/2 hours from Pittsburgh to attend the wedding, and I was actually afraid of being late so I don't think I slept too well. We arrived and took uncle and his family out to lunch, and then headed directly to the wedding site since they seemed to be worried and wanted to arrive early....

We visited the famous creamery at their school cuz we had too much time before the wedding. I have to say the college town was indeed very boring. It's basically the school and then one street that has shops to provide for the students' needs. I am very happy I didn't have to go to a school like that....oh well....

Took some photos before the wedding....Bride obviously was hiding....


People getting in before the ceremony.....

Stuff Billy wrote on their blessing card.....You have to know Chinese to understand what he wrote....

Uncle wanted to pretend he was the 4th groom's man....

Moms lighting the candles...

Bride's maids and Groom's men....


I have not seen so many flower girls in one ceremony before....

Uncle walking Xiao-Zhen in....You can totally see how nervous she was....lol

Result of having too many flower girls.....especially if their parents don't know how to control kids...This is actually "during" the ceremony, not after....

I like photos without faces....lol

The newly wedded couple.....

I heard the cakes were made by church members....

The immediate families....

Some photos after the wedding for "our" side of family....

They apparently enjoyed the reception food very much....I just didn't know why they wanted to eat so much right before dinner.....

Outdoor pictures turned out much better with the natural sun light....

Don't ask me what he was trying to do....

This little girl was hitting on Billy....She kept on talking to him and tried to rub against him....lol....oh and she is from China so I guess that is why she was very talkative for a kid...

Best photo of the day....

We thought it was funny that David looked like the groom the way he was sending off guests with his sister...

One of my favorite photos that I took of the wedding day....even though I had no idea what they were running back and forth to the car for....

We took bunch of photos here and I think uncle + his wife finally noticed so they wanted a photo here too....

Wedding dinner was at this Italian place called Alto. The restaurant is kinda cool cuz the place looked like a house in a residential area....

People at the dinner were the close families and wedding party only....

Well....mission accomplished......