Summer in China

Hey Guys! Here is my regular vacation routine: San Francisco- Beijing- Lianyungang (my husband's hometown)- Guilin (my hometown)- Beijing- San Francisco. I spent the whole June with my parents and friends and enjoyed wonderful Chinese food. Everything was so familiar that I even forgot to shoot photos. However, I would like to show this picture to Marshall.
This is the typical scenery of Yangshuo (a county of Guilin), which is on the back of RMB 20 Yuan (about 3 dollars).

King's Canyon and Belize

Hello everyone!

After Marshall's post on non-posters I almost put up some pictures of Giannini, BART, hummingbird cafe, etc, to summarize my summer but then thought I should wait until I did something more blog-worthy. Finally got out of the bay area to go camping in King's Canyon a couple weeks ago and also just got back from a little vacation in Belize. My big summer trip is still upcoming though, as I'll be going to Paradise next weekend!!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Gina

Kyle's kickass wedding video

hey guys-

kyle is way to modest to post this, but in case you haven't seen it you should check out his kickass wedding video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni_yvzcmSVg

In quest for the California Summer

Hey fellows!
Good to see your adventures during the summer and knowing that everybody is doing fine.
Tired of the cold Berkeley weather, I went to search for a taste of summer in southern California. And I found it! San Diego is an awesome city with great beachs (in spite of the freezing pacific water), parks and nightlife. Here are some of the pictures.
See you soon!

San Diego downtown











Balboa Park



















Old town









Coronado beach

Tenochtitlan

Summer seemed too short but I am very much alive!

I went to Mexico and well to Arizona! Mexico City is a spectacular city, full of life, movement and things to do! Here are some pictures of it.

Hope summer is going well and hope to see you all soon!

Saludos!

Germany

Hi guys! Marshall called me out, so here goes: I spent most of my summer in Berkeley at the energy institute which Marshall pictured in a previous post. I was gone for the last month or so where I spent a week in DC, 2 weeks in Germany and another week in Chicago. Germany was awesome! I felt like it was my first real vacation in a long time. It was very relaxing, especially because Ben planned it all. We spent one week in Berlin, then we traveled to Hamburg, then spent a day on the Rhein River looking at castles, then to Frankfurt and back to Berlin. One of the big highlights was staying in a castle. As you can imagine, I am very tall compared to medieval Europeans, so I had to duck to get through doors etc. This is an awesome picture of the view from the garden outside of our room in the castle.

Sitka, Alaska

Hi all,
Other than hanging out in Giannini (and moving to a new apartment in North Berekley (-:), the most exciting part of my summer was coming up to Alaska this weekend for my uncle's wedding. His wife is Native American, and her friends performed traditional dances and songs at the reception. We were also in town for the first annual Seafood Festival fish head toss. It's like an egg toss, but with halibut heads. Some of my cousins did rather well.

Why is half our class scared to post on the blog? (and a few Uganda pics)

Hey dudes-

1. C'mon, why is half the class scared of the blog? For all we know, Gina, Erica, Qu, Jamal, Sikandra, and Lilia have dropped out of school. Post some pics so we can stop worrying!

2. The wife and I just had a nice 2-week vacay in Uganda. It's really awesome there. If you pay them a shit-ton of money, a man with a gun will take you to see the mountain gorillas. There are lions that climb trees, and volcanic lakes to swim in, and some Santa Cruz-inspired soda beverages for purchase.

Here are a couple pics:

Kyle's Wedding

So I just got back from Kyle and Em's wedding. It was quite a lovely affair. The ceremony took place in a beautiful church overlooking a lake with a volcano and the reception took place at an awesome resort again with a beautiful view and an open bar. One of the highlights of the ceremony was Kyle giving his vows in both Tagalog and English. During the reception Kyle teased us with the proposition of singing a love song in Tagalog but then he got nervous and chickened out. I think it is safe to say that everyone had a great time and the new couple looked extremely happy. All in all it was a great weekend. Also, Kyle wore makeup (see below).

The tents for the reception with the view of the volcano (right hand side)

The view from the balcony of the house

Hanging out with Kyle and his pops

Kyle getting makeup

More makeup

Kyle made up

The entrance to the church

The view from outside the church

My cord presentation counterpart and me

Awaiting Em's entrance

Em's epic entrance

It was quite the picturesque scene

Me helping to put the cord around the lovely couple

As we were taking the cord off, I leaned over and whispered into into Kyle's ear . . . `Pepsi'.

Kyle and Em with the `principal sponsors'

Kyle and Em with the `secondary sponsors'

The couple with the maid of honor and the best man

Kyle's new Filipino family

A big kiss that brought cheers of `more tongue!' from one family member

Kyle ordering people around

The bridal car

The view at the beginning of the reception

The view from the reception area

Getting ready to make my entrance into the reception

We were required to dance upon entering

Their first dance

Kyle dancing with his mother

The unmarried females participating in their competition (Puncharat placed second. I also placed second in the unmarried male competition which consisted of a beer drinking contest. Kyle's brother Andy won that competition. His reward was to be the prize of the female competition).

The final three contestants and Kyle's thrilled brother Andy

Kyle doing . . . I don't know what

Steve's speach

The Emericks

Em's mom giving her speech

Drinking margaritas at the end of the evening

The view the next day

Taxis

Tricycles

We waited at one stoplight for precisely 29 minutes without moving an inch. People were not happy.

Kids playing basketball in Manila