Monday, June 15, 2009

Long Island, NY

Dinner. Fishball soup, they take the head and tail off the fish and then mash the rest of the fish together. It's actually quite good. We also ate bamboo. I thought that was only for Pandas.
These are Alexis' friend, Maggie's cousins. They were such good kids. We had tons of fun playing with them.

Popsicles, Yummy.


I really wanted to take her home. Her name is Teena. So adorable, but she was actually kind of scared of me. I think she knew I wanted to bring her back to Virginia with us.


Breakfast. Seafood and shrimp for breakfast, along with eggs, rice. In the silver bowl, I'm not sure what was in the shell, but it was really good. You were supposed to suck it out, but I could never get mine out that way. I had to use a toothpick to get it out.
We spent the weekend with Maggie's family in New York. It was so much fun. We had yummy pizza and cheese steaks, too. I was able to learn more about the Chinese culture, too. Wonderful people and I can now say two words in Chinese, Hello Nee-How and Thank you, Shis-She --spelled phonetically, of course.
I was telling one of Maggie's grandparents Thank you and I said, She-She. Maggie and her sister thought that was so, so funny.

Chicken Feet. YUMMY!!!

This was at a restaurant in Chinatown, NY. What a sport. She'll try anything.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Dark Hollow Falls, Shenandoah Nat'l Park


I love this hike. It's a short one only 1 1/2 miles. There are a lot of hikes with waterfalls in the Shenandoah's. I can't wait to hike to all of them. I know Alexis is looking forward to it, too. It rained almost every day last week, so having a sunny weekend was perfect. My garden loves all the rain it's been getting. I can't believe how well our vegetables are growing here, YEAH!!!

Dark Hollow Falls, Shenandoah Nat'l Park

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Ocean City, MD

Well, the plan for this weekend was to make a trip to the DC Temple, Alexis does baptisms for the dead while Kimberly and I attend a session. Work has been a little slow this past week and I didn't have to work on Monday, so we decided to spend the weekend with Kimberly and go to the beach on Monday. Last minute trips are the best. The weather was absolutely beautiful. You couldn't have asked for a better day.