Summer is ending (and noodles)

Summer is almost at its end. It was actually cool today, although I suspect in the next two months there will still be more hot hot days ahead.

On Tuesday Kenaz will start school. We'll post about how that goes. I'm worried. Kenaz (like myself and Akiva) is rather anti-social. And he's a little baby. So I'm more worried about him going to school. On the other hand, his teacher will be the same teacher Akiva had last year, and we like her.



Kenaz has learned how to doggy paddle and roller-skate. Akiva can now roller skate and his freestyle swim is pretty good ( can't get him to breath on the side yet though)



In other news, we have expanded our noodle repertoire to include Taiwanese-style street noodles. Usually 10RMB a bowl, served in the Taiwanese restuarant in Times Square shopping mall, and in the Taiwanese restaurant near Papa John's on Xingdu Rd. and Suhui Rd. (苏惠路和星都街). Pretty good but a little too much pork flavor for my taste. However, I like the shaved-ice and bean desert which we get after the meal.

10 Years Wedding Anniversary

Jesse and I had a beautiful wedding at temple in San Diego on August 8th, 1999. I was very sick a week before my big day. I had a fever yet I had to finish making my wedding gown (I used my grandma’s silk kimono). When Jesse had a bachelor party in San Diego, I was a tour leader and drove my families from LA to Las Vegas. I was still very sick. Jesse gave me some medicines which made me dry and super drowsy. I am so glad I didn’t become a tragic bride(I have no memory how to get to Las Vegas).

During our wedding ceremony, I couldn't stop coughing. I held into my cough and slowly let my cough go from my nose which made me tears and made some guest cry. After the beautiful ceremony by Robbie, I was a bride driver. I had to put my families into a van and drove to my reception at beach side hotel. I didn’t have a make up artist nor hair stylist. I did all by my self. I rushed into a bathroom and checked my self. My hair was messy and my mascara made me looked like a panda, yet I was young, skinny and very beautiful.

It’s been 10 years. Jesse was looking forward to do something special at our anniversary. He wanted to make up for our honey moon which we never happened(we took my parents to redwood forest mountain in Santa Cruz after our wedding). However 3 days before our anniversary, my mom called me and wanted to visit us in Suzhou. It was so great to see my families again in abroad to create the similar situation we had 10 years ago. Yes, I had to be a tour leader again (at least I wasn’t sick) but nothing can replace the joy of family. Akiva, Kenaz and Hiromi’s daughter Shihori and Nahoko draw a big poster to celebrate our anniversary.
Smile in front of the poster