Mahjong Time
Family game night tonight – Mahjong. Our family has strange rules and we play clockwise, regular wind directions, etc.
Mahjong Time
Mahjong Time
Tag: family
Mahjong Time
Meow 🐱 and goodnight.
Miki
Dog-shaped dog
Lani, 2015
Home Cooking
Japanese Curry
Homemade Shumai
I am so happy that my family is back from Japan. Besides being reunited with them, I missed my wife’s home-cooking! Last year, she had cooked a huge pot of curry and froze it for me to eat while they were away. This year I wasn’t so lucky… but that made the “homecoming” curry even better. She also brought back some really cool steaming equipment and made some delicious shumai in it. Yum!!!
Skateboarding on Vacation
After getting our new skateboards last summer, Bay and I decided that we should take our boards when we travel and go skateboarding on vacation. So for our Christmas trip to visit my family in Los Angeles, we packed up the boards and brought them. Actually, I only brought over my trucks and wheels since I had an old deck at my parents’ house, while Bay brought over his whole skateboard.
The first day we were there, we rode to the park and skated around there. My old deck is a real ’90s style, with a squared off tail (and tail guard!) and front of the board goes a bit wider. It is such a comfortable cruiser shape! I loved riding it again!
On Christmas Eve day, we all went to the Strand. Most of the group was on bikes, but my oldest brother, myself, and Bay rode our skateboards. I also borrowed some rope from my dad because I was anticipating being towed by one of the bike riders. And as you can see from the photo above, we made good use of the ropes! Riding on the Strand brought back so many memories. It was なつかしい！(nostalgic)
The only thing I would change is that instead of bringing my Bones wheels, I’d bring the OJ’s instead. The softer and quieter OJ’s would have been more comfortable and easier on the ears than the hard Bones.
When the vacation came to a close, I was going to bring my old deck back to Texas but decided to just bring the trucks/wheels home. I’ll leave the deck in California for the next visit!
