DC part 4 ( CULINARY adventure)

FLO favorite vacation always includes FRIEND, FAMILY, FUN and FOOD!!!!!

My dear cousin and his lovely wife took us to this super cool yoghurt place.  

Where you can get your own yoghurt!

LOOK at these toppings!!!

 

They have CREPES too and this crepe was MINE

It was strawberry, banana, NUTELLA and mini mochi crepe!

OUT of this WORLD!!! DELICIOUS!!

Here is my cousin and his cute and lovely wife! 

GOOD TIME with family!

I have been trying to get them to visit.. But seriously, the food they fed us in DC

will be very hard to match in Cbus.

The next day, we took our cousin Mo to SUSHI buffet!!!  

My kiddos LOVE LOVE uncle mo mo...

I have watched Mo grew up from a quiet funny boy into 

such an AMAZING (understatement) young man.  

So very proud of him and loves him much!

He got scholarship to Taiwan for 2 months... 

You can read his blog listed on the left side bar,

"The road less traveled"

Of course... family dimsum was a treat!

Here is the table of the "family elder" The grandma and grandpa on the left came all the way from Holland (Netherland) for the wedding.

Then the BESTTTTTTTTTT Dinner ever!

My cousin and his wife took us to this Kebab restaurant!

The left was lamb, the right was chicken.

It was so delicious!

It smell like "home" as well as it was authentic cooked by fire...
That chickpea in the bowl as well as the rice was great as well! 

This is chicken dish that is so richly delicious!

Then they took us to a very cool vietnamese town. I forgot to take a picture of the place but found a blog ,"two DC" which is a very cool blog about DC. They posted about this awesome place! We went and get bubble tea for each one of us... Check out this blog ," Vietnamese town "

What an awesome way to end a day.... Wedding day is coming tomorrow!! :-)

DC part 3 (Wedding Rehearsal)

The second day of our trip in DC, we went to the wedding rehearsal.

In case you missed our Day 1 adventure, here is our adventure at the Natural Science Museum and when we went to family barbeque.

Here is mei mei and little brother getting ready to practice their walk.

Walking down... with her little bear blankie...

Sadly we lost the little bear somewhere in DC the next day.

Upss... the little flower girl was picking her nose!

Big brother is getting ready!

Here comes the ring bearer and another flower girl

Second round... She pretended that it was her flower basket...

Instead of throwing flower out of the little bucket...

She picked flowers and put them in!

On the car ride with Uncle Mo2.... 

Poor uncle Mo2 had to endure an hour car ride listening to veggies tales.  

Such a good uncle that he is, he sang along with the kids on some of the songs..

Sweet auntie and the new uncle...

The very happy couple at the rehearsal dinner.

The new uncle LOVES kids too!!! He fits right in! :-)

Just us.

It is so hard to get the youngest two to look at the camera!

So here is the best family picture we can steal for the night!

Our culinary adventure in DC and the actual wedding pictures are coming soon!  So stay tuned!

DC part 2 (Barbeque with family )

The first full day in DC we went to the Natural Science museum and explore the wonderful world of science. Check out all the kiddos when they pretended to be scientists here in this post.

Then we went to a family barbeque at the park.

The cutest little sailor in the world!

Friends and family!

Here with koko Sammy.....

Indonesian Chicken Satay on the grill! 

My little cousin (well, he is a young man now) did a great job!

It was delicious!

What a perfect day!

Washington DC part 1 (Natural Science Museum)

We went to Wanshington DC over the weekend. We only have Friday to go sight seeing...
So we went to The MALL and visited the Science Museum

Daddy and his kiddos

In front of the Natural Science Museum

J and the big elephant!

Little brother was sooooooo excited to see the dinosaurs

Little brother was so serious in his research!

Carefully examining each rock!

Big brother was also busy.  He was looking at some bugs specimen on the microscope.

Big brother observed several butterflies.

Of course little sister did not want to be left behind. 

Little brother was teaching his mei-mei all about crocodile's teeth

Superman and a tiny bead

The day started perfectly wonderful.
We had been outside since 8 am gardening and playing.
Perfect cool summer weather.

Out of a sudden Sammy cried and said one of these beads is in his nose.
These beads were not even ours... I was in the backyard gardening around the patio...
The kids were playing with the neighbor's kids... Big brother were playing with these beads...

 At first, I was not panic...
Asked him to go inside, get a flash light and look at his nostril.
I could NOT see the bead... Asked Sammy to sneeze... and still did NOT see the bead.
All these time he was crying and said it was still in his nose...

So I went into "panic" mode and decided to go to urgent care...

                                   
Big brother had his camera with him because I asked him to take a picture of the bead to show the doctor.


After driving 15-20 min, we arrived only to find out that our kiddos hospital urgent care is not open until 3 pm... They told us to go to our pediatrician... Drove back 15-20 min.... To end up at our pediatrician's office which is less than 5 min away from our house!

So much for "urgent care"!!!

Yes, he was wearing that superman outfit... they were playing superhero... so all these people at the front desk asked," so what's up with superman?" "well, he got bead stuck in his nose"

Then my day went "argh could be better" drove to campus to print out a bunch of stuff only to find out that the printer is out of ink (FREE printing)... so went to work without being able to accomplish anything...

Then I came home. I realized I forgot to pick up dinner that I ordered!....

The best part of the day was when one of my buddies dropped by with a box of cupcakes from one of the well know cupcakes bakery here!  Chatted and just laughed at the event.  She called when I was about to get in the car... so she knew what had happened.

 

I am grateful that GOD loves me so much that HE blesses me with so many wonderful friends...
One that knows what I need to keep my sanity from time to time...

In a day like today that means " a super rich creamy double chocolate chip buttercream cupcake!"
You don't even want to know the calories and how long you have to run to burn it off :-)

Oh.... What a wonderful friend!!

Princess Day for Gracie

Yesterday one of my girlfriend emailed me about princess day at the mall. For only $10 for fun little princess activities. So off we go today with Gracie's buddies

She is so into princesses!... She has 3 little princess dresses

Picture with mommy!

3 little princesses getting ready for their hair do... Gracie's other friend princess Milcah is sitting across so she was not in the picture. Belle and Ariel were there!

Gracie loved the makeover.. She NEVER sit that still when I do her hair!

 

After hairdo... with a special girl... She "likes" my oldest son :-)...

If this is the sight of sisters in law... I will be blessed! :-)

Off the go riding in that pink limo!

She sat for the story time also.. That was tooth fairy reading a book about "tooth"!

After reading a book about tooth and how to take good care of their teeth... The kiddos were given pure pink sugar meringue!!!!

Gracie and Belle! It was a wonderful evening! So worth every penny of that $10 !!