Day 2 started out with breakfast made by Jimi. A simple egg & potato dish and a fruit platter… well he made it look simple. Pienza For our first day trip, we drove the clan to Pienza. This was our first exposure to the small meat and cheese shops we quickly fell in love with. …
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Italy 2010 Day 1
Podere Monti After the stress and chaos of waiting for everyone to arrive, renting 2 huge diesel vans, ramming everyone’s luggage into said vans and driving for 3 hours, we finally arrived at our temporary home, a villa in the small town of Montepulciano. Podere Monti is a 7-room bed & breakfast and we managed …
Italy bound
Bonjourno, today our Italian adventure begins. We’ve been talking about this for months and I can’t sit still. I packed all sorts of camera gear and 2 shirts… We’ll fly out of SFO, stop over in Washington DC and then on to Rome. I’ll try to update the blog daily but I don’t know what …
Labor Day 2010
This year’s Labor Day celebration was a little tough as I was out sick the entire week before. We tried to keep it simple as we are preparing to go to Italy soon. Thanks to everyone for pitching in and helping. Also thanks to Jen for using my camera to grab a few shots. To …
10 years later…
Today we celebrated 10 years together. A decade of love & affection (Def Leppard ref). 6:15 rezzies at Pappo in Alameda.
Annibirthery II
Tonight we celebrate our 2nd annual Annibirthery. August is the month for Rick & Jon’s birthdays, as well as wedding anniversaries for the Kung’s, Yuen’s & the Goya’s. This year we met at the Crouching Tiger in Redwood City.
Max’s
Today we met for lunch at Max’s in Milpitas. After a 45 minute wait, we dined on Lumpia fresh and fried, Fried Chicken, Pancit, Sisig & laing. I got so excited I forgot to photograph everything. We’ll be eating leftovers for dinner.
Free Concert
Tonight we spent our evening at San Jose State University enjoying a free concert on the lawn. It’s rare that photography is allowed at the concerts and I’ve been trying to get a photo of Jon playing the piano. Never have I captured the intensity of the moment. I’ll keep trying it’s only been 12 …
Father’s Day 2010
Since we just celebrated Fathers’ Day, I thought I’d share my tribute to my father at his funeral last month. Family & friends, I’d like to take this time to talk a little about my Father. Earlier in preparation for this day, my wife Sandy asked me two very important questions: How did your Father …
Tita Flor “No Reservations”
Today Sandy picked up Tita Flor at the AmTrack station in Oakland. After some greetings we went straight to Tribu in Union City for lunch. We ordered chopsuey, tribu fried chicken, pork sisig, binagoongan fried rice, bululo soup and finished up with ube ice cream & frozen brazo. This was followed by a quick trip …