In-Laws' visit

I haven't seen my parent-in-law for a long time. Since we are busy for work, nicely, they visit us a couple times a year. There were here last weekend. We did some hiking, eat out, and of course, mom made a very nice meal.

They took us to Pasto for dinner. It’s second time I went to Pasto. Don took me out for my birthday in 97, and that was the first time we celebrate my birthday together. We can remember where we sit. This time, I went to celebrate my birthday again after 14 years! Pasto almost is a “special” restaurant to me now.

We went a short hike in Kachina Trail and Jon and Lucy joined us.
Lucy made the hike more enjoyable. She walked on every rocks, and loved to jump. She fall several times during the hike and had some scratches from the falls. Well, she did cry for short time but most of time she just stood up right the way.  Good girl!

Someone walked by and took the picture for us.

Mom made a beautiful & delicious meal for us.

My BD this year

My birthday this year is very different than before. Knowing that we are moving next year. I invited some friends to celebrate my birthday together. It's first time I did that since we moved here.  It was fun.  

Not sure what I was talking about...

No sure what was so funny.. I wasn't there I guess. :) 

My piano is a big toy for kids

Beautiful gifts and cards 

Hails

We were waked up by hails hitting on the roof.  Luckily, no damage to the house or garden.

夏日冰雹

大太陽一下子轉成陰天，忽地下起傾盆大雨，還下起了冰雹！

Computer Problem

In the past few months, my NB would shut down by itself. I reinstall/recovery the whole computer twice but it didn’t get much better. So, now, using computer at home is a pain – it’s slow and unstable. Finally, I called Acer customers service yesterday and hoped someone would work with me for trouble-shooting. That was a frustrating phone call. This person can only tell me “bring in so we can run the tests to find out the problem…”

Dude, I am not nearby. His suggestion is useless. I requested to speak with a “real engineer,” and he said this is his area… So, I asked "are you focusing on hardware or software?" He would not tell me.

So, I concluded he knows nothing.

How frustrating. This is one of reason I didn’t update this blog for so long. I will still working on it and see if I can get a real help.

Camping at Grand Canyon North Rim (1)

More pictures from the trip:

--- long range of the canyon



--- the light of sunset








--- Layers of canyon



--- Moon lihgt seems so bright here

--- Camp ground

--- lights on the tree

--- on the way in to the park

--- trees are waved with wind

Camping at Grand Canyon North Rim (2)

I love the camp ground in North Rim. On the weekend, although the camp ground is packed, it is still very quiet at night. We got very lucky this time - it is monsoon season but not only we didn't get any rain; the breath was cool and gentle. I love the feeling setting next to camp fire with companies. Either we talk or just being silent, the peaceful feeling makes me very relaxing. Of course, the perfect S'mores is always fun and the highlight of the day!

--- Saw a group Bison on the way out



--- Camp Ground

--- Noah played with soil and made a dirty face

--- I had my sandal on...







--- Another beautiful sunset



--- Try to capture the enormous of the canyon