Friends from Houston

Johnny & Gina & their two very cute daughters came to visit us from Houston several weeks ago. Johnny came because of business trip so Gina came along with the two girls.

Meredith had fun following around Jenny and also Christine. She also got one day off from school to play with Jany and Christine.

"Huat Tan Ho" in Memphis, Tennessee

Kevin (from Sabah but living in Memphis) told us that they have the best "huat tan ho" (fried kueh tiaw with soup) here in Memphis. I didn't believe him at first. After he took us to this chinese restaurant, I have to agree with him that this is one of the best kueh tiaw I have had outside of Malaysia. Of all places, who would think that the small city of Memphis has a good kueh tiaw place. He took us around to quite a few places. Kevin likes to eat, so we ended up eating a lot of good meals this few days in Memphis. Meredith and Isaac hang out in the hotel room while we are on the run from Hurricane Gustav.

Isaac smiles a lot now. He get distracted very easily, everytime he hears a noise, he will turn his head around to see what is going on.

The kueh tiaw place in Memhis
Huat Tan Ho, it is very good
Meredith at the river park near downtown Memphis
River park, downtown Memphis

Memphis has a lot of live bands playing around the downtwon street.
Kevin knows how to eat very well, he took us to Bosco, a great Italian restaurant.
Meredith eating ice cream at Bosco.
Meredith licking the ice cream plate to clean it up.
We slept in a different hotel tonight, all the hotels in Memphis area are sold out so we have to keep changing hotel in order to get a room.

One week ago, life was normal in New Orleans

We visited the aquarium in New Orleans downtown last Saturday. Meredith had a blast. She was fascinated by sting-ray, lobster and penguin. She spent at least 20 minutes in front of the lobster aquarium just observing the lobster. However, Meredith is not very courageous when it came to petting the sting ray. We lined up at the sting ray area and they let kids touch sting ray. Meredith would not touch the sting ray when it comes to our turn.

"You need to be scared and you need to get your butts out of New Orleans right now," New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said

Hurricane Gustav is forecasted to hit New Orleans-Baton Rouge area on Monday. In typical dramatic fashion, Mayor Ray Nagin said this is the MOTHER OF ALL HURRICANE. Bigger than Katrina, bigger than Betsy. Right now Hurricane Gustav is a category 4 storm with 150mph wind. Get your butt out of New Orleans right now! This is the message being repeated over and over on radio and tv for the past 24 hours. See www.nola.com for more detail. This weekend was supposed to be holiday weekend. Our friend from Houston canceled her trip to New Orleans. The last flight out of New Orleans is scheduled on Sunday, beyond there, no more flight from New Orleans.

So we starting packing up on Friday night, and we didn't know where to go until the very last minute because hotels in 200miles radius north of New Orleans were totally booked up. In the end we decided to go to Memphis, Tennessee, the land of Elvis Presley. We drove 380miles yesterday (7hours) to Tennessee and only managed to get hotel reservation for 2 nights. Hotels were sold out after that and we will probably have to stay with friend.




Military planes started flying into New Orleans as we sit in heavy traffic trying to drive to Tennessee to escape Hurricane Gustav.
We arrived in Memphis, tomorrow we will go see Elvis Presley home. But we first we are eating BBQ ribs that are famous in Memphis.

The ribs are so good! It is worth the 7 hours drive.

Recent Photos

Between work, school, families and driving to Houston on weekends,I've been so busy recently that I hardly have time to post. Anyway, just want to share some recent photos of Isaac and Meredith....