Viva Las Vegas!

For our first quarter anniversary (just kidding... it just happened that SW had a great deal on tickets), my husband and I took a weekend trip to Vegas. It was my first time there, so now I can finally say I went to Vegas.

We spent an entire day on the strip and boy was I tired! Vegas is probably not my thing since the smoking killed my nose and things just didn't seem all that great to me. I will admit the architecture is quite impressive though.

So what did I enjoy about Vegas? The M&M's store and the outlet mall... with the 8.1% tax! haha~ Viva Las Vegas!

Ovo

I love Apple! I also love the fact that my husband works for Apple.

Anyway, it turns out that Apple bought out the entire 4pm Ovo event with all you can eat food in the tents. A popcorn and soda costs $11, so when we went the first time (on our own, before we knew that Apple was treating their employees out, it was way out of our budget). Together we devoured 2 hot dogs, 2 sodas, 2 lemonades, 2 Haagen Daaz bars, 1 cotton candy and 1 Red Vine pack. Yeah, we're Chinese and we got our money's worth!

Can't wait for "O" next weekend...

Yan Can Cook... or can he?

Last night, Dan and I went to the Sunnyvale Library to see Martin Yan give a cooking presentation. Oops, excuse me... "cooking" presentation.

From 7-8pm, he was cracking jokes (particularly at this one black fellow) and just skinning and julienning and slicing vegetables while promoting his Shun knife. Growing up using multiple Shun knives that vary in terms of $$$, I doubt his is really that great.

Anyway, his real cooking presentation lasted maybe a good 10 minutes? Kung pao chicken and beef with bell peppers. I think I'm going to make one of those this week since 1) we have all the ingredients in the fridge and 2) if Yan can cook, so can Ede!

btw, since he's doing this presentation at a LIBRARY, FREE of charge... that can only mean one thing, he's going downhill... but it was cool seeing him in person after watching him all those years on PBS growing up.

Snap back to reality...

Good-bye gorgeous sun, blue waters and perfect 70 degree weather...

What a nice awakening to be welcomed home to a storm (that's when you know it's time to get back to the daily groove of something called... life!).