We just got some pictures of Lorelai’s cute little cousin Hudson!  He’s only almost 4 months old but he looks like he’s over a year old!

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Our lack of updates are due to, in parts, the following: We’ve been busy Celebrating… Jet lag messed us up more than we were expecting.  It took Lorelai 10 days to adjust back. Work has been very busy/gloomy. Hopefully things will slow down/go back to normal/have a brighter outlook soon and we will have time [...]

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In case you haven’t figured it out, I didn’t post all the pictures in the blog posts…  There are just too many of them (250+).  Too many?  Probably, but I tried to filter them out already.  Anyway, click on any pictures in the blog posts will take you to that point of the Taiwan Trip [...]

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We stopped by Sogo’s, a Taiwanese department store, children department to let Emma and Lorelai play with the bouncing horses (Mom knows all the “free” places, LOLz).  The elevators were manned (or should I say, womanned) with girls in uniforms bowing and asking which floors you would like to go as you enter in high [...]

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Our night adventures into the local night street markets were as fun as we had expected.  Lots of good food that I was fond of when I was a kid, and some of them I haven’t heard of.  Mom and Dad took us to their favor stinky tofu place, and both Jeannie & I agreed [...]

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After a long day, hot pot was consumed by all.  They sell thinly sliced frozen meat specifically just for hot pots at Costco here in Taiwan.  And being the meat lover that he is, my dad bought packs of beef, pork, and lamb, Costco size!  We attempted to finish them all but obviously failed.  Lorelai [...]

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Lorelai & Emma (my brother Ryan’s daughter who’s 4 month older than Lorelai) have been looking at and talking to each other on Skype for a while every week.  It was nice for them to finally meet in person.  They had tons of fun together and are now BFFs (although Lorelai does take advantage of [...]

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This was a big trip for me since I haven’t been back to Taiwan since I left 17 years ago (Dec. 1991)!  I have now spent more than half of my life in countries other than Taiwan, but still, it feels like it’s the original home. I am going to do the trip recaps in [...]

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Came back last Friday, and have been having a hard time with Lorelai.  She is having a lot of trouble with the jet lag and has been waking up at 1am every night…  Super tired, lots to catch up at work, will try to update when things go back to normal a bit.

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