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!

What stands out?

Although dinner was just Chinese at home with potstickers and XO seafood udon, we did not have your typical chopsticks. What is this here?! Lightsaber chopsticks?! Yeah... guess who bought those.

For those of you that are interested, the chopsticks are basically for looks only, it's hard to use them since it's made of plastic and feels very weak. The green (Yoda) chopsticks are shorter than the regular blue and red ones though.

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...

Two Months!

It's not like I'm counting or anything... but it's already been a blissful two months already! Seriously, I'm not one of those crazy wives who count and celebrate every single month...

I don't know what it is about married life, but time just seems to flow by like no other. Over this two month period, I have learned to become a better housewife by cooking better and better dinners for the husband when he comes home from a long day's at work.

hoisin baked wings, celery and vermicilli with crab meat

fried rice, miso soup and Korean short ribs

curry udon, hot & sour soup and sweet & spicy wings

And in the span of two months, we also got a new daughter...

Meet Dot Shinn!

Another weekend

Valentine's Day tulips... and half a box of eaten Cocola macaroons bought from Costco. I don't know how much Cocola sells macaroons for, but I'm pretty sure we got a deal buying it from Costco. First V-Day as a married couple... success!

Friday night dinner - trying out a linguine and clams recipe I got from a student's mom as well as my first attempt at broiled lobster. Dan claimed it was good, so for you guests whom we will invite over to our home very soon... this may be your future dinner!

Monday night dinner... "Oriental" salad with sesame dressing with honey garlic chicken wings and burgers. I'm not Julie (from Julie and Julia), but I'm slowly starting to get the hang out cooking different genres of food. So far, we have not had the same meal twice.

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.

Home-cooked meals

An above average home-cooked meal on a Friday night. Miso soup, buckwheat soba noodles, seared tuna with seaweed, salmon sashimi, toro & spicy tuna sushi.

Oh, and as a surprise, my husband brought home flowers too! Who said there's no romance once you get married?