SF & Whistler Ski Trip, Vancouver

We are back on earth and we had a wonderful vacation, it was nice to visit KK and his friends. There were too many good restaurants in San Francisco and we only had three days to taste them all. Trust me, we tried our best and you'd know if you have traveled with us to Toronto before! As you can see from the photos, the weather was only so-so there but KK kept saying that it's not normal and that we must have brought the rain with us to San Francisco. We went to dim sum twice because it was too good, even better Toronto and also had Japanese for a couple of meals. And of course, we did some typical see tourist attractions such as the Ghirardelli Square and Fisherman's Wharf on San Francisco Bay, and Alcatraz "The Rock". Too bad we only looked at the Golden Gate Bridge from afar but we didn't have any more time to fit in any other activities.

After that, we flew to Canada for our ski adventure. And we must have brought the snow with us to Whistler, but then who cares if it snows 24/7, it is so beautiful there. Lucky I only had a 2 GB memory card with us, otherwise, I'd have taken too many pictures. We skied four days straight and still had covered only about 60% of the trails. There will still be plenty of trails to explore the next time when we return. The highest peek we visited was 6,900ft. It was awesome up there and we almost burnt out all of our energy to get down the mountain and we were walking like old people. On the first day, I fell pretty hard once while I was adjusting to powder snow and Teresa said I flipped over 180 degrees. In fact, one of my skis hit my head but I was lucky that I have my helmet on. Teresa fell a couple of times face-down on the third day because she was going down slope a bit too fast and lost control a bit. We had such a great time out there and would love to go back for the 2010 Olympics. That's it for this time, stay tune for our next adventure and I hope you enjoy the pictures!!!

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White Water Rafting - Our 1st Class 5 Attempt

Since my friends and I are now expert class 4 white water rafting rider.....LOL....we decided to go try our first class 5. We went to the Upper Yough at Laurel Highlands Outdoor Center in Ohiopyle, PA.

After we arrived and signed the waiver agreement, we hopped on a bus and went to lunch which is a bit different than class 4. In class 4, we ate lunch half way into the white water rafting trip. But food still sucks!!!! There were barely enough food to feed everyone. For some reason, my wet suite was expanded after the last wash, so I was wearing an oversize wet suit. :(

There were six of us so we were in two different rafts and there were also a bus full of teenages going for the unguided rafts. We started out on very calm water and after a few class 4 drops as practices, we began on the real stuff. There were approximately 15 class 5 falls and the guide stopped before each drop and explained how we should tackle the drop. No one fell out from our raft, but Christine fell out because she got push out by a passing-by kayak. The worst fall of the day was an unguided raft w/ 4 teenagers, all felt into the freezing water and our raft picked up a couple of their paddles. Since we had a guide, everything went smoothly for our raft but we still had to paddle like crazy. :P There were lots of twists and turns and the raft shifted from left to right and right to left pretty fast. I thought we did some pretty cool maneuvers, but of course, the guide did most of the hard work.

But we all agreed, from now on...we are definitely going on class 5.

Strawberry Picking Day

We just decided on the fly that we would go strawberry picking sat morning. It's a big tough for me to get up that early but I guess I do love strawberry that much!!!! It was raining a bit that morning but it was still fun and my sisters' families came as well. I also bought a strawberry pie and a salad dressing and the pie was soooo delicious!!!

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Then, yin yin & I decided to have a little fashion show with our puppies, so we went to yin yin's home and start dressing up our pups. LOL!!!

The Big Day - Bringing Moby Home

I didn't plan on picking up a puppy, just went along for the ride because I want to see the puppies. We got to Man Man's coworker's home, we sat on the kitchen floor and started playing with the puppies.

For some reason, one of the puppies....the smallest of the batch was attached to me. She was very quiet and very still and sat on my lap the whole time. All the other puppies were playing and jumping, except for her. She was so tiny, weighting in only 3.5 lbs.

And of course, I couldn't resist and brought her home with me. She is Moby......the cutest sweetest puppy on earth. :)