Thursday, December 27, 2007

Christmas Eve 2007

After the LOH Chinese Christmas Banquet at Peony, all the LOHs came back to Jen's parents

Jen and Nay in front of the beautiful tree - CHEEEEEESE!

Jen and her family

John keeping Drake company on the stairs

Aki and his B*L*I*N*G

Nay and her Xmas Secret Santa gift from Chris:
"I WAS RAISED ON THE STREET"

Jen & Nay's 1st Annual Cookie Exchange

December 22, 2007

Jen & Nay's Holiday Potent Punch - Mmmmm

Some of the cookies on display...

Peeps enjoying the Potent Punch!

Jen, Erica, Michelle and Steph

Cookie lovers dream! Cookies make Jen giddy!

Michelle and Adam - 1st place winners with their Ricotta Cream Cheese Cookies!

Baby Georgia playing with the candy canes!

Nay and Jen

Aki on the 1's and 2's!

Oakland Raiders vs. Denver Broncos

Tailgating at the Raiders/Broncos game

Mike BBQing the hot links

Just an ordinary Sunday with the Raider Nation

Jen and Nay - Go Raiders!

Nay with her Aunt and Uncle from Hawaii - their first Raiders game!

Our little BBQ - Walmart $17.99

LOH Cousins

December 7, 2007
The cousins get together at our apartment for poker and wine!

The family men

Mike - walking jacket monster

Steph and Jen

Michelle and Jen

Thanksgiving Day

Jen and Naya's Thanksgiving in Los Angeles
The Thanksgiving table

Jen applying her Thankgiving makeup (YEAH RIGHT! Just pretending)...

Ain't nothin' like some thumb wars at the dinner table.

Nay, Jen and Apes (Winos)...

Jen and Apes

Jen and Nay with Nay's parents, cousin Apryll and Tata

Nay with her niece and nephew, Angie and Xavier

Attack of the whipped cream...

"Kiss, Kiss"

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Fest 2007

Our first trip to the Half Moon Bay Annual Pumpkin Festival

Finally we arrive in Half Moon Bay after sitting in traffic for 2 hours making our way down the winding road to the coast.

One of the several pumpkin patches in Half Moon Bay

Another pumpkin patch - this one has red pumpkins and white pumpkins. Variety is always good!

One of the giant pumpkins being carved by a professional carver. The detail is pretty fascinating!

You can see the professional carver working away on the pumpkin behind us. This drew a large audience!

Jen and a little chub kid checking out the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place pumpkins! Very cool!

China 2007

In September 2007, Nay accompanied Jen and her father on a business trip to China.

Here we are at the Taiwan Airport at 5am local time - just waiting for our flight to Hong Kong. Roaming around, Nay finds this laundry list warning to passengers
You can tell this picture was taken within minutes of our arrival, being that we're so excited to take a picture of a foreign bathroom. Nay loves the restroom advertising!

Nay exchanges US$5 for all this Taiwan money...let's see what we can buy! (Not too much, we aren't in China yet).

At the Hong Kong Airport - a sign counting down the date, hour, minutes and seconds until the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008

Someone is very excited to finally arrive at our first hotel - the Westin in Guangzhou, China

John, Winy and Jen at a Chinese restaurant in Guangzhou. Winy is the owner of one of Jen's factories. In China, its customary for the factory owners to take their clients to the best restaurant in town!

At Winy's factory - The workers are assembling some of the boxes for Jen's client in New York.
The workers are carefully laying the boxes onto pallets, which will be placed into 40' containers and shipped to the Port of New York - appoximately 30 days from China to New York.

All of us (especially Nay) enjoying the luxury of Chinese foot massage. Hoyman is having a pretty good time as well!
John and Jen on one of the trains in Hong Kong

Nay and Jen on the same train

Taken on the busy streets of Hong Kong

Nay's photo shoot - an array of items we picked up at the local 7-11 around the corner from our hotel. I believe we spent $3 on all these items. The Tsing Tao beer was only $0.25


Finally! We arrive at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Shanghai, China. One of Jen's favorite hotels. Taken from outside our room door on the 81st floor. Looking down on the hotel atrium located on the 56th floor.

Two years ago when Jen lived in Shanghai, the Grand Hyatt (left) towered over all the other buildings in Pudong. Now the new Shanghai Financial World Trade Center will be home to the Park Hyatt Shanghai (right). Upon completion, this will be the tallest building in the world.

The Grand Hyatt Shanghai lit up at night. You can tell the hotel lobby begins on the 54th floor - half way up the building itself.


Nay and Jen in a local taxi - about to explore the city of Shanghai. Taken on the way to the Fabric Market in Puxi.

Oscars! Where we bought our pirated DVDs for US$1.00

In Shanghai, one of Jen's other factory owners took us out to the infamous "duck" restaurant. Let's just say, Nay and Jen left the restaurant starving. Here we are posin' with one of the Chinese ladies who walk around the restaurant. Something tells me she wasn't too pleased that we asked her to take a picture with us. Talk about "muggin"!

Nay at the 12-Turn Bridge in Old Shanghai. A very special place to the LOH family, as Jen's grandfather would often visit Old Shanghai for Chinese New Year, and Jen's grandmother used to socialize and run around with her friends in the 1930s. The reason it "turns" 12 times is because the Chinese believe evil spirits can only walk in straight lines. Therefore, they cannot cross the lake. Nay taking in the scenery of the Yu Garden in Old Shanghai.

Nay loves China because she is a GIANT! Look at how thrilled she is!



Jen, standing on the infamous "Bund" in Puxi, Shanghai. Behind her is the building her grandfather owned in the 1920s - 1950. He was in the shipping business (I guess it runs in the family!)

The Shanghai Bund Tourist Tunnel - very trippy!

Nay and Jen heading to the Pudong Airport in Shanghai - we survived a tsunami and we're ready to go home! We are on the fastest train in the world which takes you from Shanghai to the airport in 7 minutes. The train is called the "MAGLEV"; faster than the Bullet Train in Tokyo and the TGV in France. We reached speeds of 300 mph!