Carin and Andy planned a trip for all four of us to go to Macau on August 2.

The majority of the population came from Canton; Macau is called Ou Mun in Cantonese.
There are many temples built by the Cantonese settlers while the Portuguese who came in the 1550 built a lot of churches. These different religions co-existed for hundreds of years.

In Ou Mun, there are lots of bakeries and eateries; Chinese like to bring food as a gift when visiting friends.

Ou Mun is also known to have nice hotels and big casinos. We stayed at Hotel Venice where the scenery resembles the real Venice in Italy. We could pretend to be in the real city of Venice.

It was a fun trip especially to be able to enjoy time together with our daughter and son-in-law.

When Fuming and I visited our son and family, we visited many of our relatives' home and were treated to good food.

In one of the visits, our granddaughter Melissa was given a kiss by a dog; they are both so cute.

The next two pictures showing the yummy food at Gary and Caroline's home, and the last photo shows Ben and Anna taking us to a brunch in a fine restaurant.

We had such a great time, and I am looking forward to my next visit in September.

My aunt came to the US to visit her son and to meet his family. They stayed at a hotel near the SFO for a couple of days; we took them out to dinner one night. It was a very nice restaurant; the dinner was especially enjoyable when there were good food and good company.

I was really happy to have seen one of my cousins who I had not seen for over five years. We used to see each other often when we were young but drifted away after we got older. I am so glad that we met again.

My niece Mina, daughter of my older sister Susan, planned a Fourth of July picnic party for all our relatives. Altogether there are 24 of us; we have a large extended family in the San Francisco Bay area.

The party was held at Vasona Park in Los Gatos. Mina and her family prepared barbecue for all of us, we brought ice, water and paper plates. Of all the barbecue items, my favorite was the barbecue corn, yummy!

Kids played with each other on the playgrounds and we chitchatted; we had a good time. I hope there will be another barbecue party when I go to US again in September.

During our stay in the US, my son John took vacation time to arrange a trip for our extended family to go to Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park. There are a lot of children-friendly rides; my sisters' grand kids and us older folks all had fun taking rides and driving toy cars. It's so much fun to be a kid again.
The Gilroy Garden has a very unique tree collection; it's called the Circus Trees. They were created by a man in the 40s then rescued by Michael Bonfante, the previous owner of the Gilroy Gardens. In the background of the second picture is one of the circus trees. For more information about these unique trees, see http://www.gilroygardens.org/circus.html

Gilroy is the Garlic Capital of the world. Fuming and John are both allergic to garlic. We teased them that they needed to careful or they would inhale too much garlic smell and cause allergy attack. Luckily nothing happened.

It was a very memorable day.

In June, Fuming and I went to visit John, Sandy and baby Melissa. It's around the Father's Day; we had a lot of family activities.

We went with my siblings and their family members to visit our parents' resting place. It's a family tradition to tell them about the weddings, new babies and what's going on in our lives.