nik's wedding

Pictures and video from Nik's wedding!!


Michelle and Joe at Nik's apartment


Chris and Vanessa

Casa Real is the venue for the wedding, it is a vineyard in Pleasanton.

Nik walking down the aisle and Harsha, his best man, behind him.
Amy and her dad Larry Huang

Amy and Nik, the priest is blocking this shot though.
Nik give the ring to Amy


kissy face


Joe and Larry are the two witnesses


Present Dr. Nik and Amy Udompanyanan!
Yayayyyy!!!
banquet hall

Nik gave a very good speech

Harsha gave a really good speech as well. They are very good friends.

Joe and Matt practiced for the upcoming performance.



Video of me and Matt (Amy's younger brother) performing Somewhere Over the Rainbow!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1oKdmkyGE


bye for now, more to come later.

Bungy at Taupo

Here is the link to my bungy at Lake Taupo in New Zealand!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9a7pj73_aw

September 09

Wowo, it's Fall! The weather is sunny, crisp and cool in Portland. Things are going ok, not much going on, we are just hanging out near Portland this month.

The new green line opened in September. This runs from Clackamas town center to PSU. The section I care about is from downtown to PSU. This is really great because it is free downtown and we can take this to Chinatown to get some chow. The one on the left is the MAX, the green one on the right is the street car. This stops right near our condo and the new PSU rec cen is right near by as well.

The annual free symphony at the waterfront park. Great show this year as usual.
Michelle packed us a picnic dinner and we had a great time.

fireworks after the music

One weekend, we went kayaking in the Willamette river. This spot is popular now, I've seen many people rowing almost everyday. We rented a tandem kayak (2 people) for 4 hours - $30.

We kayak to Ross Island, round trip is 5 miles. It was really calm and peaceful that day, not a lot of power boats or barges. We saw some deers on the Island, that's a surprise. We can see the island from our balcony and it is in a pretty urban area.
blue heron

OMSI submarine
South Waterfront area. The condo price came down a lot now. A 1200 sq feet, 1 bed room condo at John Ross is about $300k. That's an ok price, it used to be much more expensive.

Another weekend, Michelle took us to the Mcminnville aviation museum.


Tiny plane behind Michelle. There are some very cool planes here, WWI and WWII planes are really neat.

F14 Tomcat is parked outside.
The star of the show - the Spruce Goose, the largest "flying boat" ever built. This means taking off and landing in water. Michelle was this in Long Beach when she was a kid, but she said this display is much better laid out.
Closing with a few cooking pictures.
Shisohito - like a mojito, but with shiso leaves instead of mints. Great summer drink.
Spicy creamy scallop sushi, Michelle' s favorite.

Sauteed king oyster mushrooms and scallops. yummmy. 8)



Everything is good in Portland, the weather is still nice in October and we'll go down to Nik's wedding in 2 weeks or so. bye for now!!!!