Congrats Alf and Laura!

Congratulations to our friends Alf and Laura on their wedding day, held in Santa Barbara at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on August 25, 2007. It was a great excuse to have a small reunion of old friends, and a great excuse for allowing white people en masse to dance.

Old friends together again...minus a few.

With the lucky man

Laura and Alf

Day at the beach after the wedding

Pictures!

Yay! I put these up on Facebook a bit ago...turns out they had links to share the albums with others! Here are a ton of our pictures! Enjoy!


Hong Kong and A Taste of Delhi

Jeremy and Durba's Wedding 1

Jeremy and Durba's Wedding 2

Jeremy and Durba's Wedding 3

Jeremy and Durba's Wedding 4

Puri, Konark and the Rath Yatra

Finally, a minute to concentrate on this...

Whew...well it's been a good few weeks of going right back to work/moving back in/job searching, and now we finally have the chance to sit and work on this blog a bit. I have to make sure I keep an eye on the rajma curry (think: kidney bean curry) that i'm trying to make, although it seems to have turned into more of a "chili" with all of the tomato paste I added. Oops.

We're looking towards a busy schedule, Garrett and I. We enjoyed a welcome visit from Garrett's Dad during our first weekend back, and last weekend we made a trip out to Tahoe to go camp in Emerald Bay State Park--a trip planned back in May after our day trip to the Rubicon trail. Oh my Tahoe was gorgeous. True the lake was a bit cold, but nonetheless I didn't want to get out of the water, although the orange streaks flying around told me that it was time to warm up.

This next weekend we're off to Santa Barbara for our friends Alf and Laura's wedding. It will also be a small reunion for Sylvia and her old friends (old?) from Davis. In between these fun fulfilled weekends I've been working away in the lab with some enzyme determinations and trips to the field for pear harvesting while Garrett plans out his personal training work. It's starting to look pretty good for him, with all sorts of forms, business cards, referrals, and other "professional" stuff starting to happen.

Hopefully we can get this updated...i'll give myself one more week. At least i'm finally moving our photos onto the computer! step #1!

Back to cow town...

Sadly or Happily, we're safely back in Davis. Sylvia's back to work and Garrett's getting things back into our apartment. We'll be in the process of updating and uploading in the next week or so, it will be nice to have our computer up and running. I suppose we'll go through and add pictures to the blog and update that as well, so check back soon and go through it all again, we know you love it.

At the Wan Chai (i think) MTR...

Hi, we're at the MTR (Mass Transit Railway) in the clubbing ("clubbin") district in Hong Kong. Sylvia is amazed at all of the ladies of the night walking around, and at all of the "hostess" bars up and down the street. It's all very, interesting.

Today we went to the HK Museum of History to see the Hong Kong story, a nice interactive walk through exhibit going from the beginning of time all the way to the modern metropolis. It was interesting learning about the history of the city: Opium wars, the Japenese Occupation, etc. We ate at Genkei Sushi after, got cool Hong Kong haircuts, then wandered down the Mong Kok area to see the bird and flower markets, and ended up having Malaysian food for dinner in Wan Chai. Now we're about to head back to Kowloon, to get a drink at Panorama, the schnazzy hotel restaurant with a 220 degree view of Hong Kong and the bay.

Tomorrow is Lantau to see the big Buddha, we'll hopfully find a beach, eat some Peking duck, re-visit the Peak at night to see the night time views, and head to the more classy area for a night on the town.

Goodbye from a free internet stand in the subway, Hong Kong is awesome.