with my sister's family in town recently, angie helped arrange some family photos at my parent's place. it was a rare opportunity when all the cousins were together in the same city at the same time.

this summer both angie and i joined our friend's softball team, along with some other friends from church. the season ended with an all-day tournament a few saturdays ago. we won all 4 of our games that day, and met our rivals in the final game, which we won 14-13.

i dragged my family along with my nieces and nephew to see loverboy at the pne this year. i don't think any of them had even heard of the band.

last weekend i helped my friend joe drive his car from chicago back to vancouver. i flew out to chicago on friday morning, landed at o'hare by 3pm, got in his car and we started driving west right away...

we covered 8 states in 4 days. much of it looked like this for the first while.

we stopped to visit the official spam museum just off the highway in austin, mn.

we stayed with good friends charles and serena the first night in madison, WI, and rocked the night away.

uh oh. smokey pulled us over once. not bad i guess, for how much driving we did.

we passed some pretty interesting mid-west towns, where the locals seemed pretty 'interested' in seeing two asian guys walk into their diners and gas stations.

we crossed the border in blaine, WA on monday at 6pm, some 3,700kms later.

we always love it when our dear friends kip & lindly drop by to visit. boo loves playing with wei ling and jasmine, who are getting more and more lovely every time we see them! kip carried micah and sang strange lullabies to him, and eventually was able to put him down for a nap - impressive.