Ron and Stephanie drove up to Hanford to join Morgan for the 4th of July. Morgan had been spending the previous week there with the Gongs. Stephanie couldn’t go up earlier because her high school basketball team was running a booth at Rec Park as a fund raiser. Iris decided she didn’t want to drive… Read More »
The El Segundo High School girls basketball team held a fund raiser at the 4th of July celebration at Recreation Park in El Segundo. They sold Chinese Chicken Salad, Spam Musubis, and baked goods.
Ron, Stephanie, and Morgan ran the Run For Education, which is a 5K run through the streets of El Segundo. This is the second year Morgan has run the race; she gets extra credit for PE when she runs, so there’s some motivation for her. Ron and Stephanie have run this for several years. It’s… Read More »
It’s once again the season for selling Girl Scout Cookies. This year’s new variety is Thank U Berry Much, a shortbread type cookie with dried cranberries. Fortunately, since Stephanie isn’t participating in Girl Scouts this year, we don’t have to worry about selling quite as many cookies. However, Iris is the cookie chair this year,… Read More »
We took a trip to Orlando, Florida, this year during the kids’ spring break. We flew to Orlando on Sunday, taking a direct flight on American Airlines. We stayed at a time share, the Polynesian Isles Resort in the city of Kissimmee, which was just 15 minutes from the Disney theme parks. Actually, everything in… Read More »
Iris’ mom, Sue, took us out for dinner. She wanted Chinese food, so we went to the Sea Empress Seafood Restaurant in Gardena. Morgan had a serious Jones for Peking Duck, and we intended to order a half a duck to keep her happy. The waiter, though, informed us they were having a special on… Read More »
Morgan left for Outdoor Science School (OSS), a five day camp experience for sixth graders at El Segundo Middle School held in the Malibu canyon area. Students have the opportunity to learn about different ecosystems by exploring the nearby tide pools as well as the canyons. For more pics, click here.
As we have for the past few years, we hosted Oshogatsu. For four days, we had been shopping, chopping, cooking, cleaning, and arranging for our largest get-together of the year. This year, we think we had 50-60 guests drop by at one point or the other, including family, friends, neighbors, teammates, current co-workers, old co-workers,… Read More »
We hosted some friends for dinner on Christmas Eve. Paula and her three kids, Eliisa, Oliver and Niklas; Nikki and her son, Alec; and Grace and her daughter, Ava. Like Thanksgiving, we had lots of food. Ron tried cooking a rib roast for the first time; it barely fit into our small oven. Even though… Read More »
Our bathroom tub had begun draining increasingly slower, until eventually we were standing in inch or two of water by the end of our showers. The bathroom sink was also draining slowly, and a bottle of Drano didn’t help, so we finally called Bob and Marc Plumbing. We had used them several times before, most… Read More »