These are my friends who came from far to visit: some as far as St. Louis & Hawaii, others even farther from Japan & Thailand. It has been more than a few years since I’ve seen my international friends, so no doubt, we were really excited. They land in SFO, so it made sense to have our San Mateo apartment the meeting point for all our guests. They got to see our new apartment, too. Also a good opportunity to further explore Downtown San Mateo—it’s always better to do these kind of things with visitors!
The day after our wedding, my parents threw us a nice Saturday luncheon at the Embassy Suites in Santa Clara. Just like I did the night before, I set up my spare camera & created a makeshift photo booth for all to use! A good way to document all of our visitors. Again, a hit!
Also, the photo booth set up the perfect photobombing session—hours of portrait-ruining fun (evidenced by my sister in the photo above).
The whole set with thumbnails can be found in my Flickr feed down below:
I set up one of my cameras, some lights, a remote trigger & instructions at our wedding dinner reception so I didn’t have to go around to take everyone’s photos. It was a hit!
There are a lot of photos in this album (nearly 200), so it’s probably best to view them as thumbnails:
You don’t see this often at the Coliseum: a bride & groom taking their wedding photos in the field level aisle. They couldn’t have chosen a better day—the weather was perfect for such an occasion. Much props to these newlyweds, hardcore A’s fans!
The A’s killed the Texas Rangers 9 to 1 that evening, mainly because of our section’s jeering of the Rangers’s left fielder David Murphy & my sign that took me hours of crafting on illustration board the night before:
Congratulations to the newly engaged, T-Born (aka Tim) & Molly! Actually, about a month ago, Molly was assigned to fly out to work in Tahiti & T-Born decided to propose right before she left. Only now that she’s back (after being away from ‘Born for a little less than a month) can we celebrate this exciting occasion!
After I found out about the engagement (through T-Born’s rarely updated Facebook status), I shared the good news with our other Japan friends. Sharing the excitement, we thought it would be a wonderful idea to celebrate over dinner. We dined two consecutive Fridays to show how happy we are of the news.
Molly, T-Born, Angelo
Last Friday, Alex offered to whip up a dinner feast, the usual fare at his house. When it comes to cooking for his good friends, he doesn’t like to hold back:
Yep, that's pasta with bacon, buttery crawfish, gumbo, as well as 'taters & sausage. Angelo's contribution was the thai chicken. Spicy meal, indeed.
Food comas are dangerous at dinner time because we still had to drive home super drowsy.
I know people hate the new digg.com, but don't knock the narrowing of the center column. It makes for good readability for long text. #diggabout 6 hours agofrom web
