Archive for the ‘America Trip’ Category
Almost the end… or maybe the beginning? hrmmmm
Posted on 13th January @ 5:10pm @ melanies house
Wow, time has flown!. Ive just finished packing my bag for the trip home. Its sooo full. Doesnt feel like its been two months since i got here, thats for sure. The time here has been great though, ive really enjoyed myself and seen lots of new [...]
I wanted snow, and i got it!
Posted on 7th January @ 11:32am @ Melanies house
Well yesterday it snowed here at mels place again, but this time it was a LOT more then usual. They had the most snow here yesterday then they have had since 1996. People could get to work, roads where caotic, schools where closed. The news covered it [...]
More fun in the snow!
Posted on 2 January @ 1:27pm @ Melanies house
Me and Melanie played in the snow again today. We added to our previous ice sculpture (the snowman), by adding a chair and a puppy dog!
Now i must note that realism is key when Melanie and I put our creative minds together and its amazing what [...]
Welcome to 2004 from Seattle
Posted on 1st January! @ 12:36am @ Melanies House
Just finished watching the fireworks off the space needle in seattle on tv. Its now officially 2004 here in America where im at - woohoo! Ive been thinking about new years resolutions and im working on a few good ones this year. Ill post them maybe tomorrow [...]
Piccies!
Posted on 31st December @ 2:24pm @ Melanies house
Righto, Updated piccies are here.
The first few snow ones are from when we went sledding, i only put a little selection up on here for the moment. Following those are the night shots last night when it started snowing - then followed by some day shots [...]
Snowman Take 2
Posted on 31st Decemebr @ 2:18pm @ melanies house
So with the snow and all at melanies place, it was the perfect time today to have another attempt at making a snowman. With help from Mel and her dad we managed to get a pretty decent (although rather out of proportion) snowman)
I also drew a [...]
Its snowing!!
Posted on 30th December @ 11:19pm @ melanies hosue
It just started snowing here at melanies place! Wooohooo! Missed a white christmas by only a few days… oh well, thats ok. Maybe there will be a white new years
Sledding!
Posted on 30th December @ 8:58pm @ melanies house
Went sledding in the snow yesterday with mels uncle and two of his kids. It was great fun!. I got some cool video of it as well.
The comedy was pretty good in redmond as well. The first dude kinda sucked, but the others where ok. On [...]
Christmas in the Chin Household
Posted on 26th December @ 11:29pm @ Melanies house
Well Christmas has been and gone. The last few days have been pretty cool. Christmas was as expected, lots of people, lots of great food, etc etc.
Christmas morning we (me,melanie and mels brother tim) went around to mels grandparents place for breakfast/lunch. We had yummy chinese [...]
Leavenworth / Glass / LA Pics
Posted on 23rd December @ 9:31am @ Melanies house.
Some more piccies!
The first few are from Leavenworth. I think i forogt to write about Leavenworth but basically its a small Bavarian village about 3 hours away. We went for a drive there last week and had a look. It snowed a lot and fairly heavily. See [...]
Earthquaking in LA
Posted on 22 December @ 10:50pm @ Melanies house.
Just back from LA. Heres what went on.
Friday we flew out of Seattle to LAX. Got there in the afternoon - the flight was around 2 hours. Melanies friend holly was there to pick us up and went went back to her place. The drive was fairly [...]
Tocoma Museums
Posted on 18th December @ 10:28pm @ Melanies house
We are off to LA tomorrow. Going to see another of melanies friends who lives down there. So yeah, we are flying down tomorrow afternoon and spending the weekend. Apparently we are going to Malibu one day, but imj not sure what else we will be doing.
Today [...]
Techincal Bookshop!
Posted on 15th December @ 8:59pm @ Melanies house.
Yesterday (14th December) we got up early and drove to Portland. Its about 2 hours (maybe a bit more then that) away form where Melanies house is. Its also in another completley different state - Oregan. That means ive been to a total of 4 states in [...]
*yawn*
Posted on 12th Dec @ some crazy hour of the night….
So Yeah.. bore … ummm Should be sleeping but im not that overly tired. Got a book to read tonight form the half price book shop - “Just For Fun” the book about Linus Torvalds - ya know? the dude that made/wrote/created Linux. Not [...]
Snoqualmie Falls
Posted on 12th December @ 6:18pm @ Melanies House
Went for a drive to snoqualmie falls today.
Mels dad, Mel, and me ventured up there. Its a pretty big waterfall. Had to walk a fair way down a steepish path to get to the bottom viewing deck thing but it was ok. Rained for a breif second [...]
More Piccies
Posted on 7th December @ 8:14pm @ Melanies House
Ok, piccies are up.
First lot are from the Seattle christmas singing thing we went to, followed by a few from asian art museum (buildings and stuff). After that are some pictures i took while we where walking to the IMAX movie. The cinema is right near the [...]
Matrix Imax!
Posted on 7th December @ 12:47pm @ Melanies House.
Ok, for some reason i forgot to write about what happened on Friday. So ill start there. The main thing that happened was the trip into Seattle to see the ‘figgy pudding’ - dont quote me on that, thats what it sounds like but ill probably get [...]
hrmmm
Posted on 5th December @ 10:33am @ Melanies house
So - back from Redmond again. Didnt do al that much while we where there. Had a look around the redmond town center for a few hours, went out to the Outback Steakhouse for tea. They had good steak - wasnt too bad. The next day we [...]
Pictures Catch Up
Ok, Here are a few pictures from the last few days.
First few are form the flight museum - outside, indside, the concorde, and inside the ‘red barn’ which was the original boeing barn that they used to make planes in.
After that are a few of me with the troll under the bridge, this thing was [...]
Sushi - its starting to grow on me
Posted on 2nd December @ 6:23 pm @ Melanies house
Today we (Melanies Dad, Melanie and Me) went and had sushi for lunch with her uncle william. He works at a place called REI - which is basically a HUGE outdoor shop where you can buy everything for hiking / snowing / bike riding etc etc [...]