Independence Day

Trip to Idaho

Joslin cut Lorkan's hair the other day, he saw a curl on the ground and said... "Eyebrow fell off".

Kid quotes are the best.

Show me paint the house

good Danielson....... very good.

now show me roast the "mallow".

bad technique

End of Costco

7 years of pay stubs.

Summer Colds

....Makes me sound like Axl Rose...

wailing like a tortured cat over retro power-ballad riffs,

throwing down NyQuil like a bowl of green M&M's backstage.

Quick Camping Trip

Hunter's Canyon- Near Colorado River and Moab
kid cam

kid cam

Lantern Festival

happened 28th Feb 2010

About 15 days after
Chinese New Year is the Lantern Festival.
This concludes the holiday.
Chinese New Year is more of a private affair celebrated with family.

These are huge frames made out of the papery rice paper used to make lanterns.


"Electric Lanterns" for the kids
Lorkan and his cousin

Huge snow storm so the public fireworks display was canceled.
We managed to set ours off.

Food in China

shrimp on a stick... well,...why not.

Chinese version of a

"Taco",tofu wrapper and pork(fish flavored)

clams from the sea
corn patties:
eaten a lot in poor times
...now it's a novelty.

mutton soup

large-sized edible sea snails(鲍鱼)

this is a highly prized and expensive ingredient used in Chinese cuisine.

(pumpkin with sugar sauce in background)

Some kind of

radish

with sauce.

stuffed dumplings called

"baozi" (包子)

strong bunch onions dip in soy sauce and crushed garlic.

effect: cleansing of the sinuses.

Fried "Yuan xiao" (元宵) traditional in a soup for lantern festival, on a stick is a novelty. nut and bean paste inside.

Pork
boiled fish


more fish

and more fish

Fried Cicadas was the weirdest thing.

"Crunchy"

Also, I don't like donkey.