Baseball, Bonsai, & Tall Ships

Over the last few weeks, we have attended a professional baseball game, cruised the Puget Sound to view the arrival of "Tall Ships", and visit a first class 'Bonsai" collection. Here are some pictures.

Most of the trees in the collection are close to 100 years old.
While we were at the Bonsai exhibit, we had a chance to watch people work on various pieces and learn a little about doing this at home. Bill gave Uyen her first Bonsai and it is thriving.

Here is Uyen on the top deck of our boat as we wait to push off.
One of the first of thirty ships that paraded past us en-route to the Tacoma waterfront.
A shot of us on the deck with a Tall Ship in the background




The entrance to Seattle's world class baseball stadium. Too bad our team is not world class.
Here is Uyen at the game. Our seats were about twenty rows closer to the field.
This is a cool picture of the Seattle skyline.

More Pictures

Sorry, it's been a while since the last post. Uyen has been busy studying English and is still swimming about four times a week. She no longer needs the "wings" to complete laps in the pool. These pictures were taken by Tagg's wife, Heather. She is an aspiring pro and we are confident she will succeed.

Photos from the wedding

Here are some pictures from our wedding that was held on June 1, 2008. Everything went extremely well. We hope to post additional photos taken from other cameras very soon.

"You may kiss the Bride" That's Bill, my best man, pictured on the left.
Mr Cesar Acuna conducted the ceremony. He immigrat'ed to the US from Peru over twenty years ago. He's a great fellow.

Friends and family visiting from San Jose, CA

Ngan Ha, Uyen's Maid of Honor

Update

Sorry for taking so long to bring this blog up to date. The last three weeks have been filled with going to English classes, (four days a week), and making wedding arrangements. It looks like everything is ready to go and we are looking forward to what I'm sure will be a glorious day. We will post pictures of the event as soon as I can download them. Stay tuned.

Parting shots from Utah.

Our time in Utah was great! Uyen had a chance to meet my mother and all but one of my brothers and sisters.

This picture was taken at my sister Wendy and her husband John's home.
My beautiful Uyen standing next to my beautiful mother!

Springtime in the Rockies. This picture was taken in the Park City area.

Sometimes I forget just how majestic the mountains are in this area.

Let it snow !

Today, we traveled up into the mountains to experience some beautiful snow scenes. The snow came down rather hard at times and then the sun would come out at other times. The amount of snow that is still on the ground this time of year is very unusual. This is Uyen's first experience with snow and she loved it.

Spillway in the background.
Always hamming it up for the camera.

Uyen contemplated climbing this pile of snow.
This is the parking lot at the Brighton Ski Resort. The skiing would be great but it's closed for lack of interest. Empty ski lifts can be seen in the background.

Welcome to one of the worlds finest ski resorts. Snowbird was open today and the ski conditions looked great! Being here brought back some wonderful memories for me. I spent many hours on this mountain years ago.

I am amazed at how much Uyen enjoy's seeing new places and things. This is one of my favorite shots that was taken at the base of the mountain. Spring growth is showing.

Trip To Salt Lake City

My brother Rick is getting married on Thursday, so Uyen and I flew to Salt lake City on Wednesday. I plan to take her up to the mountains and show her all of the snow that the ski resorts have even this late in the season. Pictures will follow on the next post.

Standing in front of our rental car. We may need the four wheel drive when we climb the mountain on Thursday.




In front of my office before going to the airport

First stop in Salt Lake. A Vietnamese "late lunch"

Swimming and Golfing

Nice follow through ! That is our friend Bill behind her.

Working on the basics of swing.

Uyen with her "water wings". She should be on her own in just a few more sessions. Since she has no body fat, she sinks like s rock!

Watch Out America, Uyen is here !

Welcome to our new Blog. As most of you know, we arrived in America on April 18 and I am sorry to take so long in starting this. We departed Vietnam with a temp. of around 100f and landed in Seattle with snow on the ground and a 37 degree temp. There was not much to take photo's of since everything was gray and pretty depressing. Uyen however, is adapting very well. She has a warm coat and boots to get around in. One of the first stops we made was to a local Asian grocery store to stock up on oll the needed staples like noodles, rice, chile's, squid, and other fishes. She has cooked a number of fantistic meals. I have cooked a few non-asian dinners like spaghetti and she took to that very well.

This blog is going to be a little different than the last one, because I hope to cater a little more of it to appeal to Uyen's family and friends in Vietnam. So, at times, you will see comments made by her in Vietnamese. I have enrolled her into the local community college for a exensive English course and while she comprehends the language pretty well, this will help alot. She loves to swim and I have set her up to join me at our local health club that we will visit about four times a week. I also plan to teach her to play golf, (see pics below).

My good friend, Bill Seeberger, recommended this grocery store.