Christmas with family

After we got back from Mexico, we were able to celebrate Christmas with our family...Louis was excited to share his wii with the rest of the family.And it was fun to hear Lou and Louis play trumpet.

Rusty's good-bye!

Rusty was our family pet for 15+ years. Her actual age is debatable (we are not sure how old she was when she arrived... but she was at least 2-3 years old).

She was a mixed dog with a lot of personality. She guarded our front window as if she owns the street and she barked at no one except for the mailman.

I will never forget our first trick-or-treat together... and how she rubs her face when I blow in her ear. All dogs go to heaven... and I know I will see you there.

VOSH California, Mexico

This Christmas, Eric and I decided to do something different. Besides the usual gathering with family, we went down to Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico to participate in a vision screening co-sponsored by http://vosh-california.org/ and http://www.misioninmexico.com/.

We went down with a team of 13 optometrists, optometry students, and technicians. We were able to see 700+ patients in 3 days and prescribe 300+ pairs of glasses for our patients.

We were hosted by Mission in Mexico and we got to stay at an authentic rancho in Jerez. Here is Eric trying to start a fire so we can get some hot shower water.Before leaving for the airport, we got to tour the gold mine of Zacatecas.

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SF Holiday party - Crab night

Before leaving for the holidays, Eric and I decided that it would be a great idea to invite our friends over for a small holiday party--SF style. We were so excited about the crab night but really were not thinking about how we are going to "prep" the crabs... and how to get rid of the smell afterwards... -_- Here is Eric and Sung splashing crab juice all over the kitchen...
Shirley trying to steal some sushi before dinner...
and a picture perfect evening with everyone's eyes open...

Trip to Egypt

In between jobs, Eric decided to take Julie on an adventrue to Egypt. Our Egypt experience was beyond our expectation ( even the temperature..i.e. 40C).

Best of Egypt 9/9-9/19

what comes after happily ever after...

So here is what happened after the fairy tale wedding and the around the world honeymoon...

Eric and Julie both returned to the world of LOTS OF WORK. Julie started a 1 year learning position in LA while Eric traveled between SF and LA to be supportive.

Life was tough during this year. We were both working 10+ hour days. But we manage to plan some fun trips in between all this real world madness.

In Jan of 2007, we manage to squeeze a snowboarding trip in Denver while Julie attend a conference.

In Feb of 2007, we visited Julie's family again in Taiwan for Chinese New Year...

In May of 2007, we escaped to Hawaii to celebrate our first wedding anniversary...

Hawaii 2007

Finally on Sept of 2007, we concluded our tales of the two city adventure and moved to SF together.

Around-the-World Honeymoon

Since Eric and I are both very adventurous people, we decided to go all out for our honeymoon. Eric was able to find a fairly reasonable around-the-world airfare so we can backpack through Europe and visit my family in Taiwan at the same time.

We started our journey at LAX and wend to Germany first:

Honeymoon pictures (from LA to Frankfurt)

Then we hoped over to Spain to visit Eric's friend Pablo and his family:

Honeymoon pictures (Spain)

Lola was our favorite attraction in Spain!
Due to the labor strike in Barcelona, we were held up at the airport in Madrid and almost missed our flight. However, we did miss our flight from Barcelona to Paris because we misread the time (departure was at 16:00 not 6:00pm). We got to stay in Barcelona for an extra night and had to wake up at 3:00am to catch at 5:30am flight.

Then we went from Spain to France:

Honeymoon pictures (Spain to France)

Finally got to take the opera house tour... very excited.

Then we went from France to UK:

Honeymoon pictures (France to UK)

Finally saw the Sherlock Homes museum and the Buckingham palace.

Then we went from UK to India:

Honeymoon pictures (UK to India)

You can tell by this time we were really pooped...

Then we went from India to Thailand:

Honeymoon pictures (India to Thailand)

We got the best massage in Thailand.

Then we went from Thailand to Taiwan:

honeymoon pictures (Thailand to Taiwan)

Went home and visited Julie's family... and had lots of food ^_^

After the trip, we were really pooped... and ready for a vacation to recuperate from our vacation ^_^