Sunday, July 06, 2008
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Houston trip and the bread makers club
We drove to Houston last weekend. Boon Hong's mum left for Malaysia after spending more than a month with us in New Orleans. She flew out of Houston airport. This trip was very busy since we had to do some maintenance work in our old house which is still for sale on the market.
Luckily, Meredith is there to lend a helping hand. Here is Meredith helping to change out the air filter in the central AC system in the attic.
Another end result of our trip to Houston is the bread making machine. All the aunties in Houston (quite a few of our friends with young children from WHCC church have purchased breadmaking machine) are into homemade bread now, they exchange recipes and exchange their homemade breads. So Boon Hong caved in to the peer pressure (actually, the homemade bread tasted very good and is more healthy) and have been shopping for breadmaking machine since we came back from Houston last Sunday. Finally, we bought a breadmaking machine yesterday for $40 plus. We made our first loaf of honey wheat cranberry bread today and the end result is shown below.
Luckily, Meredith is there to lend a helping hand. Here is Meredith helping to change out the air filter in the central AC system in the attic.
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Another end result of our trip to Houston is the bread making machine. All the aunties in Houston (quite a few of our friends with young children from WHCC church have purchased breadmaking machine) are into homemade bread now, they exchange recipes and exchange their homemade breads. So Boon Hong caved in to the peer pressure (actually, the homemade bread tasted very good and is more healthy) and have been shopping for breadmaking machine since we came back from Houston last Sunday. Finally, we bought a breadmaking machine yesterday for $40 plus. We made our first loaf of honey wheat cranberry bread today and the end result is shown below.
Back on Malaysia soil in US
Boon Hong and I have not been back to Malaysia since 2006. We miss home a lot. So when we went to the Malaysia embassy for Isaac's paperwork, I would like to think that we have technically step on Malaysia's soil again. I heard that an embassy is technically a country's sovereign ground even though it is on foreign soil. Anyway, Malaysia embassy in Washington DC is quite nice and the people there are very courteous. The Malay guard even came out to chat with us and then took these photos for us.
More Washington DC photos
I finally have some free time to post some more photos from our trip to DC.
Self portrait with Isaac to kill time while waiting for Boon Hong to shop
Boon Hong's mum and Meredith in front of Washington DC Chinatown street.
We went to Smithsonian museum during our last day in DC. We went to the museum store to look for the tiger hair band. We took several photos when we visited in 2006 (Meredith was 7 months old at that time). I remembered those photos very fondly and wanted to recreate the shot. But I don't think I captured the same effect this time.
Photo s taken with Meredith at the same place in Smithsonian museum in 2006.
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