Yosemite trip

I had heard Yosemite many times.

After I came to U.S., I keep hearing people talking about it.

Finally, I got a chance to go there and luckily friends will take me to there.

Thanks for Danny and John. Specially thanks to Danny's uncle and aunt to let us stay at their house.

We left SF at 5.30. Then we saw beautiful sunrise.

Yosemite is so beautiful even though it is during dry season.

We didn't see the beautiful Yosemite waterfall.

But we still saw a lots of beautiful rocks, tree and animals(included human).

The air there is so fresh. The rocks there are so special.

They said that during ice age. It brought a lots of rocks down here.

So we can see many many special rocks here.

And many animals live here too, specially squirrels.

We saw squirrels many times and they don't afraid of human.

Sometimes they look like asking you to give them food.

After Yosemite, we went to Merced and we stayed at Danny uncle's house.

The house is beautiful and Danny's uncle and aunt are so nice.

They have a swimming pool in their house and we go swimming of course.

I always think one of the main reason that makes a trip good which is people.

What kind of people you met on your trip and how you interact with them.

Every people make you feel different.

And I am really lucky that i met a lots of good friends at CA which make me feel this place like home.

Thank you God for preparing this for me.

BBQ, Swim&night club at San Jose

Live here is so good that I am afraid I cannot get used to Taiwan anymore.

No more over time working, sun light, good weather and countless events make me feel live in a dream word.

Is it my America dream?

We went to Fred's house at SJ and he BBQ for us.

There was a swimming pool and we had a lots of fun there.

Thanks for Fred. He prepared so many food. 

I like the days we spent here, California.

After BBQ party, we went back to SJ people's apartment.

We went to night club at SJ which is called LOFT.

Actually, for me, it was a little bit boring.

I think music is one of the most important elements at night club.

This LOFT club's music is not so good.

Basically, it was an experience.

Sunday, we stay at the apartment all day.

Thank for Jane and Shi-Fen cooked for our branch.

I like the sausage fried rice very mush.

   

Afternoon, we took Cal-train and back to SF.

Louis came to our apartment to stay two nights.

He is more younger then us but he had a lots of social experience.

He is also a food lover.

We reheat food which we brought back from Calvin's house.

And Louis cooked same fried rice for us.

This weekend is so good. I feel happy. Thank God. 

You always treat me very nice.   

  

Gilroy Garlic Festival

Today is Sat and we went to Gilroy Garlic Festival.

They said that it will be interesting. Because there are many food that all made by garlic.

I am so happy about it. You know that staying here, It's so happy to try something that you never been through before.

There were garlic fries, ice cream, corn, sausage, etc..

There were only one problem. The weather was too hot.

I remember when we left sunset, it's 54 degree. And when we arrived Gilroy, it was 95 degree.

And when we left Gilroy, it was 104 degree.

It's so hot that we saw many people overheat.

It's good because they supplied cold water for free.

It takes 12 dollars to enter.

We almost try everything that we were too full and missed corn.

It's interesting to me as I stood there.

I was thinking that why there was a place so famous about garlic and they can do a festival for it.

After that we went to Gilroy outlet for shopping.

I felt that now I could hold down to buy everything.

After that we went to Costco and bought some steaks.

I cannot wait to eat it.

Today was good and experience more about America. 

Last night in L.A. but not least.

Today is last night we stay in L.A. 

It is last but it is least.

We spent time to enjoy leisure time.

We ate lunch at farmer's market.

Farmer's market in U.S. is like a Fruit & vegetable market in Taiwan.

But there are many kinds of them.

We went to a farmer's market in L.A., it is modern farmer's market which is for tourist.

There was a food court in there and we went there for lunch and took a look. 

When I stayed inside, I felt like I stayed in BKK's Lupini or Mochi.

Not only variety foods that you can find in there but many kinds of cute, funny products in there.

This message was left until now.

Today is July 18, I had been SF 3 days.

LA's trip was a great experience.

1. I start feeling that how big America is?

2. I experienced Taiwanese passion. And felt no place like home.

3. I wish I can stay longer.

I wish I can say something smart, but I cannot.

Life is good here, but you need people to share with you.

Then you could be complete..... Yes, I miss my girl. 

Black thirteen friday....

Today it is black thirteen friday and we were planing to Universal Studio.

I am so happy.It is my first time to U.S. and of cause it is my first day to Universal Studio.

They said  it is similar with Chinese culture & movie center(CMPC Studio).

But I don't think so.....

We spent 1 hour driven to there and saw famous L.A.'s traffic jam.

We were lucky because traffic jam was stay at opposite lane.

In L.A. you go to every place cannot without car.

Just like Jane said in U.S. : There is no leg if you had no car.

Thanks Calvin and Karen again.

Finally we saw sign which is wrote Hollywood and we also saw famous sign on the mountain.

It was pity that I lost chance to photo it.

When we arrived at it. We were lucky that it was not so many people in there.

It means we don't need to on line for long time.

We went to film tour directly. Thanks for experience Guru told us to there.

Because it was so amazing that you cannot lose it.

People said if you didn't see this, you missed whole thing. 

We saw many actually film place that we saw on movies or TV shows such as Kin-Kon or shark.

It was really cool that you saw disaster scene  could be re-happened again and again.

I saw car explored and fly to the sky then fly back. 

Earthquake scene, subway car crashed into station etc. it could be re-fix. It's really amusing me.

I saw airplane crashed and broken.

It was builded by real 747 airplane. The scene shock me a lot.

They said universal Studio is not cool as we look at movies.

I agree with it but you can still see some raw stuff in there.

In fact, I pretty like it.

I always like conflict.

Compare with movies we saw after.

The scene can give me more ideas.

One day is not enough.

We play and see many stuff but it still missed many of them.

But that's ok.

It makes me expect next time. 

Now I know why LA boys said Taiwanese

Today I went to LA with my friends.
It almost took us 7 hours to get here. I'd like to thank Jinko who letting us stay at his sister's house.
It was very beautiful as we drove down to L.A..
You can see desert all the time and it was very large and beautiful.
Now I know what is that huge means beautiful.
Jinko's family was so nice to us. The house is so big ,it has 20 foot ceilings.
I am staying in his nephew's room. It is really big, you can fit two king size beds in there side by side.
People who live in this house must be real happy.
Jinko's family speaks Taiwanese and I feel just like I am in Taiwan.

Did you still remember the L.A. boys?
They speak really good Taiwanese that make us feel good.
It is very funny when you are thousands of miles away from your own hometown and you hear you familiar language.
Strange but nice......

I am so happy and I'd like to thank Calvin and Karen......

Today I really had fun and tomorrow we will go to Universal Studio.
I am so....happy now.
I can't wait to go......

I will report back you guys tomorrow....

Napa trip

Today,there was too many funny things happened.

It was so hard to discarded everything. Not mentioned the softball we play at San jose yesterday.

After church this morning,me,Jane&Sasha toke Kevin&Keren's car to Napa opus winery and paid 25 dollars to test red wine.It was an really good wine that I had ever tested before. Sorry for my poor English,I don't know how to described it.It test like tender smooth feel and last a very long smell in your mouth which means very good.

After that Kevin and keren treated us a lunch which was also very big and good.

The winery was very beautiful and maybe too beautiful that they said looked like an America style tomb there. And you could smell a fertilizer outside.I guessed they wanted people think they plant grapes organically.Napa had a good weather and we took lots of picture there.

On the road to Napa,Sasha sang a song that she made before which was very well.I like it. Hope that I can learn more and help her record her Demo tape or CD.Maybe one day she will be very famous singer or a song writer.

After winery and lunch,we went to Napa outlet to took a look.

So many good store there and I just bought a leather jacket at San jose.So I tried to behave myself. Tried very hard. specially,there had ck.

Jane bought several stuff and finally I didn't buy anything.

After arrived Kevin's house,and little chatting about fish ,camping,etc. stuff,Kevin brought us to his backyard to picked some strawberry ,blueberry and introduced us many other kinds of plants. Kevin really has a green fingers.

After that Kevin prepared to cook and today's main meal was steak. ha ha....

Actually, Kevin has a cook license which means he is a very qualified and excellent cook.

So .....I can tell you that's the most fabulous steak that I ever ate before.... It's really awesome.

Midden rare....you can test outside just a little bit scorched and inside ...wo really tender and soft. And the sauce which contained mushroom was also very very good.

Kevin open an 1948's wine for us.

A good wine and excellent steak which means "perfect life"...........I'd love it.

After steak,of course it comes desert.

Desert was made by Jane and Sasha and who was teacher?Of course was Kevin.

It was also an very good cake too.

We brought some back to house and shared with others.

Everyone love it!!

This weekend was full of fun and substance.

This Wednesday was July 4,an international holiday(Independence day).

We will go to kevin's house for B.B.Q..      

Let's expect it ba.........

Oh.....by the way,after ate desert, we also sang a karaoke.

And Jane had a very good voice... Let's enjoy it ba......