Recent Ramblings

  • The Ruuds and The Hookom-Olsons

    The Ruuds and The Hookom-Olsons

    After an 80-piece sushi feast and Sake drinking with Corey’s and Kurt’s families on the previous evening, we headed to Kari’s place in the Sunday afternoon to do some photo shoots for her family and Tara’s family. Although the weather looked a little gloomy and cloudy in Rochester, it was nice and sunny at her… Read more…

  • Fall Colors in Northeastern Minnesota

    Fall Colors in Northeastern Minnesota

    Our journey began early in the morning, much earlier than I normally wake up to work. Our initial plan is to stay in Lutsen and do some hiking in some state parks to view the fall colors on the weekend. Since we already have a Minnesota state park annual pass, we might as well maximize… Read more…

  • The McGlones

    The McGlones

    Corey and Liz invited us to their place to photograph Conor, who is going to be 6 months old soon. It was a pleasant surprise to have Liz’s parents to join us in this photo shoot. Conor was pretty well behaved considering the fact we spent an hour and half taking photos. Conor seemed to… Read more…

  • Richard Yi-Ern Law (Part 3)

    Richard Yi-Ern Law (Part 3)

    We spent a long weekend at Jenny’s place to become Richard’s unlicensed babysitters while Andy was out of town. Richard is currently 3-month old, and he is obviously more energetic now, speaking (or complaining) way more than before in his incomprehensible baby language to us. Being a babysitter was a lot of work for me:… Read more…

  • The Eidems

    The Eidems

    I was invited to Marie’s place in the evening to do some photo shoots of her family. It has been a few years since I lasted visited her place. While my GPS did bring me to the right destination, I still nearly walked into her neighbor’s house. After some snacks and beer (good photo shoot… Read more…

  • San Francisco & Yosemite National Park

    San Francisco & Yosemite National Park

    Angelina’s parents and my dad joined us on this 10-day getaway trip to the West coast. We spent 6 days in San Francisco and its vicinities and the remaining 4 days in Yosemite National Park. The weather in San Francisco was pretty cooperating. nice sunny fogless blue sky most of the time, albeit it was… Read more…

  • Niagara Cave

    Niagara Cave

    While we have been living in Minnesota for 9 years now, we have never visited the Niagara Cave, which is rated one of the top ten caves in United States (or that’s what the website claims). So, on a nice splendid Saturday morning, exactly 2 months prior to my birthday, we decided to drive an… Read more…

  • Twin Cities

    Twin Cities

    On our way back to Rochester from Andy and Jenny’s place, we visited a few places in Twin Cities, particularly the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Minnesota State Capitol Building. The weather was good – sunny and blue sky – albeit a little windy and cold… at least, that was the case for my dad and… Read more…

  • Richard Yi-Ern Law (Part 2)

    Richard Yi-Ern Law (Part 2)

    We spent the whole weekend at Andy and Jenny’s place after the graduation, hoping to visit Albertville Premium Outlets to get new running shoes. Since it was raining the whole Saturday and the outlet mall doesn’t have stores that sell the shoe brand I want, we ended up visiting the nearby Sports Authority to get… Read more…