Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/8, 1/55 sec, ISO6400 “Browsing” Cedar Park, 2016
こんばんは！How’s it going?
This evening after dinner I took my two sons to the library to get some books. 📚 Koa borrowed a couple volumes of his favorite manga, “One Piece”, while Bay picked up several travel books. Next summer we are planning on taking a trip ✈ 🚄 to Morocco, Spain, France, and England so we’re doing research on things to see and places to stay. The planning stages are getting exciting!
The most up-to-date information is online, but it’s fun to borrow the travel books to look at maps and get ideas from more reputable sources, like good old Frommer’s and Lonely Planet. It’s also nice to curl up in bed and leaf through a paper book, especially a travel guide, where you can let your wanderlust take hold. 🗺
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/8, 1/30 sec, ISO6400 “On the Way Out” Cedar Park, 2016
When we left the library, nature surprised us with a lovely magenta sunset. 🌇 Love it!
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/8, 1/75 sec, ISO3200 “Sunset” Cedar Park, 2016
Photo info: FUJIFILM X100T, 23mm, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, ISO2000 “Tired Son” Cedar Park, 2016
Hello, how’s it going?
Today the kids and my wife have been struggling with jet-lag. For the past month or so they have been in Japan, which is 14-hours ahead of Texas so it’s quite a severe time-difference! My youngest son didn’t sleep a wink last night, but took a long nap this afternoon, and in the photo above you can see my oldest son sleeping at around 5pm. We had to wake him for dinner. 😴
But my sleep schedule was affected immediately by them being home, and I stayed up til 1 AM the night they arrived, and then tonight I am up way past my usual bedtime again… which leads me to believe that jet-lag is highly contagious! 😝
All good things must come to an end, and so it was with the 2016 Leesang Family Reunion… our group all left Miami today and flew back home. Some flew to Los Angeles, some to Honolulu, and I returned to Austin.
I think all of our flights got delayed and mine was about 40 minutes late into Charlotte, where I exited the plane and literally walked right onto my flight to Austin. That was cutting it close!
I arrived back at home at about 1 AM, tired but with a smile on my face. Looking forward to the next reunion, especially because I will be joined by my wife and kids for sure!
The final day of our visit to Miami was wonderful. It started out with a leisurely morning with our cousins playing games and then half of us split off to do some sightseeing at Coconut Grove, and the rest stayed at home. I opted to stay home, and helped get ready for the evening party. I went with my mom and cousin to deliver food, extra chairs, and set up tables at the nearby church’s dining hall which we rented out for the party and because I got a preview of the party-to-come, I was pretty excited!
As is typical with our family, the party involved dancing, drinking, and lots of yummy food. There were patties, curry, stew peas, rice and peas, oxtail, jerk, etc… And of course we had to spice it up with fresh Scotch Bonnets! 🔥 Plenty of Red Stripe was also consumed. 🍻
I mentioned before that the Leesang family likes to dance and tonight we had an instructor teach how to do a couple different dances at the beginning of the party. Check it out below!
Our family is also pretty into the Pokémon GO! craze too, and there was a gym at the church so several people had fun outside battling to take over the gym. Another fun family activity, actually!
It was a lot of fun hanging out with the extended family and taking lots of photos (I shared them in our private Facebook page) and I have to say the X100T was perfect. I got a lot of people asking me about the camera too… many people thought it was a classic film camera. 😄 What I love about the camera is that it is so fast and discreet. I had people smile, took their photo, and it was over in a split second and we were back to partying. That was such a great feeling… to not have the camera be such a big deal. The “snapshot life” is a great place to be.
Anyways, the party was a blast! We ended up leaving at around midnight and then the party continued back at the house, with the younger generation playing boardgames til the wee hours of the morning, while a few of us opted to go hang out in the pool.
I finally hit the bed at around 2:30 AM… it was a great day!
Hello! Today we returned to Miami and ended the cruise… 😔 but the family reunion continues! 😄
After a nice Jamaican lunch from Jamaica Kitchen, and then a short nap, we took a drive to the Wynwood Art District to see the wall art. When we arrived, we noticed that there were news vans all around the neighborhood. We asked one of the reporters what was goign on and she said that they just discovered that four incidents of the Zika virus were pinpointed to that neighborhood. 😧 Just our luck!
We decided to walk around the area anyways, and saw some really cool artwork and went to some interesting shops. We also stopped for a cold drink at a restaurant called Kyu before heading to another Leesang reunion dinner.
The dinner was held at a Chinese restaurant and we celebrated my uncle’s 80th birthday. The food was yummy and we enjoyed entertainment in the form of a dancing tiger… the kind you see at Chinese New Year’s festivals. 🐲 It was fun for everyone, especially the small kids.
Lots of group photos were taken and we even got to see some photo albums of old images from when the 2nd generation was in school. Very interesting!
It was a great day, but wow, I was tired afterwards. We went back to the house we were staying at and just relaxed with a cold drink and then I was out like a log!
“Jamaican Lunch” Miami, 2016
“The Menu” Miami, 2016
“Stickers” Miami, 2016
“Blue Girl” Miami, 2016
“So Many Good Things” Miami, 2016
“Old Photo” Miami, 2016
“Dragon” Miami, 2016
“Words on the Sidewalk” Miami, 2016
“Art Wall” Miami, 2016
“Photobombed” Miami, 2016
Note: This post was written on 8/6/2016
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