June 30
Amy and the kids checked out the new restaurant in the
family. Amy's parents closed down their restaurant a while
ago, but the family of Amy's cousin Lisa started up one called
"Jade Pacific" located in Lynn, MA. |
Po-Po, Uncle Allen, Auntie Lisa, Jarod, Patrick, Uncle Al and
Amy |
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Here's the family with Lisa's mom. |
July 2
On this day, my college friend Luis got married to
Amanda. That was the primary reason I returned to Boston.
We left Jarod & Patrick with my father for the day. Some
of these pictures make me realize I need to make a family
tree. My kids are getting confused... ;-)
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Here I am in my father's kitchen. We dropped off the kids,
had breakfast and then took off for the wedding. You can
see my father, Annie, Glenda, Elaine and Chris. |
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This is the receiving line after the ceremony. Amanda's
hugging a guest while Luis looks on. I believe the girl
next to Luis is Amanda's sister. |
The reception was at Kowloon's. We got a picture of all
the RPI grads together... Lisa, Eric, me, Luis, Scott, Jeff and
Steve. |
Sue and Scott had to leave early for a trip to NY. This
was my first time meeting Sue, but I don't think I got a chance
to say more than one word to her. |
While we were gone, the kids hung out. Here's my cousin
Annie wearing my shades. |
Jarod & Patrick hanging with my cousins Sam & Gabe. |
My brother Peter played them some music on his electric guitar. |
July 4
We were invited to a farm in NH for the 4th of July.
It was a massive gathering of Chinese people. I'm not
exactly sure of the connection other than that. The food
was fantastic and there was plenty to do with animals, a pool
and tons of people to say hi to. We played a game of
baseball too. |
Patrick's petting a horsie. |
And Lisa is too... |
The white horse was beautiful. |
Awwwww... |
There's Al... in a pretty cool photo. |
The kids played for a long time in the pool. I didn't
bring swim trunks. |
But when they really wanted to dive, I ran inside, grabbed some
scissors and converted my jeans into swim trunks. |
Watch the
video of them diving!
(2.08MB WMV) |
After the baseball game, the kids had a bit more food, hung out
with Po-Po and then we headed home. It was a great day. |
July 5
Looks like the boys went fishing with Uncle Al and Cousin
Andy on this day... |
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July 7
Ooh! A visit with Michelle, a friend of ours from
high school. They saw her last year as well, which is
pretty unexpected since she actually lives in Texas or something
like that. Just good luck, I guess! |
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July 8
Man, these kids are lucky. Here they are with Po-Po
and Uncle Al at some kind of museum thing... I'm guessing the
children's museum in Boston. |
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July 9
Yet another fun filled day. Here they are making
the rounds in downtown Boston. |
With Po-Po on the swan boats in the Public Garden. |
Guess they liked the horse. |
Another horse... :-) |
The "make way for ducklings" ducks. I think they sit on
them every time they go back to Boston. |
I wonder if they stopped in for a beer... |
Isn't it nice to spend some quality time with Po-Po? |
July 10
I never had this much fun as a kid. I don't even
know where this is, but it had everything! A water park,
riding activities and animals!
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little video compilation of the activities they did (2.70MB
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July 13
These pictures had me confused at first. They're
all on the same day, but I was fairly certain that some of them
were in the ocean while others seemed like a pond. I
confirmed with Amy and it's true. The ocean was too cold,
so they went to a nearby pond instead. :-) |
Ocean... with Patrick, grandpa, Peter and Patrick. |
Ocean! |
Ocean! |
Here's Peter once they got to the pond. |
Pond! |
Pond! |
Peter's a fantastic uncle! |
Pulling around his nephews... how fun! |
I bet these guys were water logged and tired after such a long
day. |
July 16
More fun in the ocean, this time with Amy's family. |
Here are Patrick and Jarod playing with their cousin Andy. |
With mom... so cute! |
I think Andy is intentionally goofy when the kids are around.
His a great cuz. |
Oh, Lisa was there too! She has food in her mouth in every
picture I have. You'd never know it... |
Uncle Al, Po-Po and the gang. |
I know for sure they were tired at the end of this day... or is
this staged?! I think it is... |
July 20
I can't believe how lucky these kids are... |
Behind home plate at Fenway. Patrick must've been
particularly excited. |
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It was so hot that day some of the Sox in the bullpen were
spraying the crowd. |
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July 22 (and other random
dates)
Looks like they made one last trip to the pond with my
dad. They also got to see their great-grandmother Rita
again. And there are some other random pictures I threw in
here too... |
Sand... lumps? I'm sure they were just castles
in-progress... |
Here they are with grandpa on the life guard chair. |
Here's the gang with grandpa and Peter and also great-grandma
Rita. |
Here they are with their only other great-grandparent, Amy's
father's mother, Baht-Baht. |
I guess Po-Po even got the kids to do the dishes. Slave
labor for the win! |
And here they are with grandma and my aunt Jan. |
