baby's laugh

all ready to go for our Thanksgiving dinner

knock it down!

and give me 20! As you can see, we run a very tight ship here.... military training starts at a young age...

Actually, Josiah was having a bad constipation for 2 weeks. Very bad. Gave him more pear puree, prune, etc... nothing worked. In the end, we gave him some suppository - but he pushed it out and refused to let the suppository stay where it is supposed to stay. But as he pushed the suppository out, he also pushed some of the aged you-know-what out as well. Slowly and steadily, he was clearing the passageway. And the best position for him seemed to be the push-up position... which he voluntarily got into....

counting down to an important decision....

MySpace-Countdowns

counting down...

curry fish head. sambal kang kong. roti prata.
mee siam. bak ku teh. katong laksa.
wanton mee. hokkien mee. ba chor mee.
char siew bao. ba bao. ang bao.
prawn-paste chicken. chicken rice. fried rice.
durian. char kway tiao. chai tow kway.
tao huay. grass jelly. yu char kway.
fish head bee hoon. satay. otah otah.
satay bee hoon. cheng teng. bo bo char char.

Roadtrip: Washington DC

Went to DC over the weekend 2 weeks ago. The weather was bad and wet as we hit the road on Friday, and it continued that way for the next 2 days. It only became nice and tourist-friendly on Monday, the day that we headed back home to Pittsburgh.

There were two strategic objectives for the trip. The first was to visit many of the museums, monument etc. Due to the bad weather, we only managed to view some, but not all, that we planned to.

The second, and perhaps the main, objective of this trip was to eat good food - our theme was Eat Asia! We are pleased to report that we did well in meeting this objective. We had Pho, Cantonese Roast Duck, Beef Ho fun. We also had quite a bit of Korean BBQ, seafood pancake, BiBim Bap... The drives to these eating places were pretty long, but no complains.

Well, since we didn't meet the first objective, I guess we have to make another trip there again... to visit both history and food that we missed....

Here are some pixs from the trip:

Smithsonian station. This is the stop to get to National Mall, where many of the museums, galleries, and monuments are located. We travelled by metro when we went to the mall area.

Taking in the nice fall colors and weather (when it didn't rain)...

The kids...

Washington Monument

Some background about the monument...

The monument from across the Reflecting Pool.

This pool seats between Washington Monument at one end, and Lincoln Memorial at the other end. It not only reflects the historical structures around, but also the history of times.