Hello again! It’s been a while (ok, half a year…) since we’ve updated this site/blog. Before the wedding, we intended to update this blog with all our Eurotrip details and wedding activities. Yet, we also told ourselves that we’d keep it updated even after the wedding. Somehow, we let that slip once we posted all our wedding pictures back in August. Even though it may seem from the lack of updates that we’ve completely fallen off the edge of the Earth, we are still here and living our everyday married lives. We are now determined to keep this blog thing alive, no matter how many (or how few) read it. It may evolve into a pet project for Rob’s photography hobby, or perhaps just a periodic update on our travels and eating adventures, but you can be sure there will be at least something new here every week month quarter.

A lot can happen in half a year, yet it’s difficult to top our first half of 2010. Lisa had matron of honor duties for two of her best friends, Michelle and Rita. Michelle and Thommy’s wedding in August was local (South bay), and was fairly straight forward since they wanted to keep things simple and fun. Lisa had fun playing wedding planner for some parts and put her previous experiences to good use. Rita’s wedding gave us a great excuse for another vacation. Rita and Sam’s Maui wedding and Chinese reception in San Jose (October) were fun times with friends and each beautiful and memorable events. However, Lisa is now relieved that her matron of honor duties are done for now (just matron duties now… .

Our time otherwise has been full of fun, short weekend trips (LA in September for Rob’s grandma’s 80th birthday, Portland for Thanksgiving, Vegas in December, cooking class in Napa in January). We’ve indulged by eating/drinking our way through these trips, including Urban Farmer, Ad Hoc, Farmstead, Wine Spectator Restaurant at Greystone, Bouchon (Vegas and Yountville), Bistro Jeanty, Auberge du Soleil, Craftsteak (Las Vegas), Delfina, and others… And btw, we both turned 30 in 2010… spent Lisa’s birthday in Maui (helicopter ride over Molokai, lunch at Plantation House, dinner at Banyan Tree restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton) and celebrated Rob’s with dinner at Benu in SF. We finally cracked open that Cristal with Vince and Jen on Christmas Eve to celebrate and bring in the New Year a little early. Needless to say, we should be on diets for the next couple months!

Congrats to our friends and cousins who became parents this year (or added to their families)… welcome babies Duncan, Isabella, Malia, Myles, Trevor and more!! We’re at that age now when wedding invitations slowly turn into baby showers and extravagant weddings turn into birthday parties at the park. We’re really going to enjoy seeing all these little kids grow up over the years!

This marks our very first Chinese New Year as a married couple. Sadly, this means the end to those little red envelopes from our parents and relatives. But, this also means that we are now the bearers of gifts and little red envelopes to the little ones. We are actually quite excited to begin handing out Lai See to our favorite kids of friends and family. Lisa is loving the whole thing and can’t wait to continue all these Chinese traditions (and torture our kids just as our parents did). Someday, we must learn how to make sharkfin soup, sea cucumber, Hainan chicken, and dong to recreate those massive New Year dinners just like our parents. Until next time… Gung Hay Fat Choy!

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