olivia turned 2 last week on 11/26 and we had a couple celebrations. first one was a day before her birthday at my in-law's house then a second one on her actual birthday at home.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY! PAPA LOVES YA!
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
olivia turns 2!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
before she turns 2...
here are some recent photos of olivia before she turns 2 tomorrow.....
her little flower halloween costume.
our little rock star!
running around the new sogo shopping mall.
trying to hide.
modeling her new pajamas.
score: mosquito 2, olivia 0.
vicious mosquito bites below her right eye and left earlobe.
taking a break from all her playing and havoc wrecking. now on to her "terrible two", as if things were not terrible enough!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
ethan turns 3!
today is my newphew ethan's 3rd birthday but we celebrated early and gathered at our house yesterday.....
happy birthday kiddo!!!
olivia dancing & singing to abc bubbles dvd
olivia dancing and singing to abc bubbles song teaching about "walk, run, crawl, climb & jump".
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
leofoo village theme park
photos from family outing at the leofoo village theme park earlier this month.....
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
side trip to yunlin county
on our recent 3-day vacation to kenting, on the way back to taipei we took a side trip to yunlin county to visit karen's grandpa for a couple hours.....
grandpa's house.
when in doubt, shoot flowers in macro. can't go wrong.
olivia drinking a bottle of grape juice and enjoying the countryside.
speaking of grapes, here's some growing on grandpa's property.
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country life.
grandpa's neighbour who has all sorts of animals in their yard.
"hey, what are you looking at??!!"
we just dropped in on grandpa without notice, needless to say he was extremely surprised to see us and of course very very happy as well.
chatting with grandpa.
Monday, October 12, 2009
kenting trip 2009, part 3 - the beach resort
here's the 3rd and last installment of our kenting trip series, the beach resort.....
we wanted to stay somewhere that was kid-friendly and offered lot of activities for families. after doing some research on the net, we decided to stay at the yoho beach resort as it was highly recommended by a lot of people with kids.
once inside, the staff was doing a welcome dance for all people checking-in.
the lobby.
chandeliers hanging over the lobby lounge.
a golden buddha idol in the lobby lounge.
the resort's main pool nestled between the lodging buildings. our room was located behind the waterfalls and palm trees near the left side of the photo.
our room.
the room's balcony.
the view from the balcony onto the swimming pool mentioned above.
decoration boat located near the beach at back of resort.
a night shot of the kiddie-pool.
the resort had quite a few shops where you could do some shopping.
there was a big games room for the kids.
giant legos!
the games room also featured lots of story books.
karen reading olivia a story.
there was also an arcade.....
where karen got her ricky bobby impression on.
the resort also had some interactive games such as this here where you throw balls at the projected images on the wall to knock them down.
this is here was pretty cool and fun for the kids too. it's a projection from the ceiling to the ground and where ever you walk on it, a school of fish will come circle around your feet.
some funky gym for the kids to climb around.
pond where you can feed some fishies.
this was by far my favorite thing to do during the trip. when olivia went to sleep, karen and i just sat on the balcony drinking some beer and chatting the night away while enjoying the light sea breeze. life's good!
here's the goole maps' location for yoho.....
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
kenting trip 2009, part 2 - the food
continuing on with our recent kenting trip series here's part 2, the food.....
on the way to kenting, we made a stop at a donlong shop.....
famous for their herbal jelly.
i also tried their herbal spareribs soup. i know none of these sound too appetizing, but it was all very good.
these giant vases are actually steamers where they cook the soup.
we arrived at kenting around 1pm, so we decided to go have lunch first before checking into the hotel. this is restaurant where we had lunch. as you can see it was still sunny when we arrived but that didn't last too long. soon after the skies became really cloudy with a light drizzle and stayed like that during the remainder of our trip.
this restaurant is called zhaoli. we found out about this place through the internet. most people gave it rave reviews so we were eager to check it out.
by the time we went inside the restaurant, it was past 1:30pm and the place was still packed with a line up of people still waiting for tables. i guess it's a good sign.
since we weren't very hungry, we didn't order too much food and just asked for some of their specialties. these included blowfish rice noodle soup,
sashimi (raw seafood) salad (this was excellent!),
some part of the fish i don't even know,
and some kind of seaweed which was very good mixed with rice.
this is a special homemade hot sauce which went very well with all the food. we were not disappointed with this place at all. everything was delicious! next time we go back to kenting, we are going to this place again.
this is a restaurant in the beach resort we stayed at where we had dinner both nights.
they had an all-you-can-eat buffet with a great spread. being that we were on the coast, i was however a bit disappointed with the lack of seafood.
my favorite food area... the bbq & grill area!
this is the resort's ocean view restaurant where breakfast was served.
and again, it had a real nice spread and variety.
we ventured out of the resort for a drive and made a pit stop at smokey joe's for some snacks since we couldn't walk around because of the rain. we saw signs all over the place advertising this place so it got us wanting to give it a try.
funky tex-mex decor inside.
i got some buffalo wings which were pretty good.
karen got a burger which was kinda disappointing because the patty was like shredded pork. tasted kinda weird.
they did have an exotic list of beers which i had never seen before and were all very strong in alcohol level. this is the "lightest" beer i got and it was 7%. all else were around 10 ~ 12%. i did really like the beer i got. very tasty and strong but i sat it for a bit too long so it became kinda bitter at the end.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
kenting trip 2009, part 1 - fun, games, r&r
last week we went to kenting where we stayed at the yoho beach resort for 3 days for some much needed r&r. unfortunately, it rained during most of the time we were there so we couldn't do much outdoors but fortunately, we stayed at a beach resort so there was quite a bit to do indoors.
with the rain and crappy weather, i didn't take as many photos as i wanted to but still managed to get quite a few. these will be too much to put all into one post, so i'll divide between 3 separate posts:
* part 1: fun, games, r&r
* part 2: the food
* part 3: the beach resort
so, here we go. part 1: fun, games, r&r.....
the kenting street, where it's usually packed with people on weekends but as you can see, with the bad weather hardly any people out.
what the skies and coast looked like the whole time we were there.
during lunch at some restaurant we got a visitor from the table next to us.....
which really annoyed olivia.
part of the pool at the resort was covered up so people could still take a dip despite the rain. however, it was pretty windy and the water was really cold so after a few minutes in the water, olivia started to shiver while her lips turned blue (see video at bottom of post how she's shivering). we quickly got her out of the water.....
and went back to the room to take a dip in some hot water.
it actually never rained heavily, just light drizzle which was on and off so we still managed to do some stuff outdoors, even if it was only for a few minutes at a time. well, it's times like this when i'm glad i got a waterproof camera.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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