We celebrated Truc’s twenty-second birthday with spaghetti and snails. Bao is a fussy eater – he wouldn’t touch the spaghetti.
Posts Tagged 'family'
truc twenty-two
Published 8 October 2009 District 11 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam 1 CommentTags: family
rooftop sunset
Published 19 June 2009 Hong Kong , Lamma Island , Pak Kok Old Village 1 CommentTags: family, scenery, zoe
Among the few positive aspects of summertime in Hong Kong are beautiful sunsets on clear evenings. Eric invited us up for dinner on the rooftop last night. Here’s a 360º panoramic view in hi-res Quicktime VR and low-res Flash formats.
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See if you can count the number of times Zoe appears in the picture.
lost in china
Published 22 April 2009 China , Foshan , Guangdong , Guangzhou Leave a CommentTags: family, noah, travel
Granddoctor Alpo and I agreed to meet at the Guangzhou Airport at the start of several days traveling in China. I figured it would be easy to get there. No problem getting as far as the Guangzhou East Railway Station – first ferry from Pak Kok to Aberdeen, bus to Hung Hom, Intercity Through Train to Guangzhou. Then things started getting interesting. There was no sign of any transportation to the airport from the neighboring Tianhe local bus station. All information and signs were only in Chinese. I couldn’t find anyone who spoke English. Luckily, I was able to access Google on my phone and found that I had to get to Tianhe Dasha first. Eventually I was able to find the correct local bus and transfer to the Airport Express bus, just in time to meet the arriving flight.
We didn’t have any idea where to go from the airport. Checking the destinations of the outgoing busses, we found one that was leaving for Foshan, a destination recommended by Alan’s colleague. The bus dropped us off at a stainless steel wholesale market in a barren outlying industrial area. We didn’t know where to go or how to get there. Just as we were starting to despair, we met Feng Qinhang and Zhang Fei. They bought us lunch and pointed us in the right direction.
granddoctor returns
Published 18 March 2009 Hong Kong , Lamma Island , Pak Kok Old Village Leave a CommentTags: family, zoe
Granddoctor Alpo returned for a whirlwind visit on Monday evening, on his way to Hanoi to deliver a paper at a conference in Hanoi. In addition to bringing us a supply of Huy Fong chili sauces and other goodies, he brought Zoe a teddy bear courtesy of Kati and Jimmy Carter.
We quickly escaped the heat with a trip up to Dalat with Di Vân, Clifton and Joy. Our favorite spot there was Thung Lũng Vàng, a sprawling botanical garden run by the water company.
I especially enjoyed the orchid garden at Golden Valley.
dzô đi!
Published 2 May 2008 District 3 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam Leave a CommentTags: family, noah
We all enjoyed a quit trip to Vietnam last week. It was so hot in Saigon that we had to eat dinner outside Di Vân’s house. A perfect opportunity to nhậu with Anh Cường and Anh Triều.
And here’s Alan holding a mutt an AKC-registered Siberian husky in West Virginia in 1971, and Alan with Baby Zoe in Hong Kong in January. Zoe definitely doesn’t look much like the dog.
Zoe looks just like me when I was a baby. Here’s Terran and Baby Noah in West Virginia in 1971 (full family photo on Facebook) and Terran and Baby Zoe in Hong Kong last month.
Just before Grand Doctor Alpo returned to Chicago, he presented Zoe with a fine silk shawl from Laos. Perhaps Trinh will borrow the shawl until Zoe is big enough to appreciate it. Video of the scene is available on Facebook.
Zoe’s first visitor in Hong Kong was her Grand Doctor Alpo, who arrived just a couple days after the rest of us mid-January. He is currently working on a project in Laos, but will return for another visit in March.
