Family Legacy

Every year my family gets together sometime during the holidays to spend sometime with one another.  For me this is a great time, because I get to hang out with my sister Marsha and my mother.  They live in Shanghai at th moment so I only get a chance to see them a few times out of the year.  Every once and a while we will have some of my mother's family come along.  This year my uncle, David, and his family came to visit.  David has three kids, and he brought two of them along.  Tim his son brought his girlfriend.  Peta, his oldest daughter brought her husband and their two children.

We all started our trip in HK, where we had a chance to do some shopping, clubbing, and god knows what else.  All of my siblings were in town as well as my brother-in-law Jon.  Jon is responsible for most of the beautiful photography throughout the trip.  Who knew he could be the most Asian out of all of us.

A tea house called Mingcha is one of my favorite tea places and we got to ride the Cable car before hand.

One place that we all visited was Lama Island a beautiful place and a even better boat ride.

New years was spent in HK where I got to meet up with old friends, Terrence being one of them.  On NYE we all headed to Disneyland for the countdown, which I must say is quite impressive.  Despite the fascist, racist, and sexiest views of Disneyland, I enjoyed myself.  I remembered why I liked it as a kid.  We had the best "host" throughout the park (a little gift from Disney).  After watching the Lion King, riding on Jungle Cruise, and riding Space Mountain three times (which is still the best ride).  We counted down and hit LanKuai.  Where we met up with the usual suspects.  A annual family dace off had to take place, and since my other cousins were in town we got real freaky on the dance floor.  The robot, rain man, gorilla (yes gorilla), and worm (done by me of course) had to be busted out.  And like always time flies going out in LanKuai and before we knew it it was 5 am.

New Years day we spent at the HK racetrack and I can gladly say I didn't lose any money.

On the 2nd we were off to Shanghai, and this would be one of the key elements of the trip.  Uncle David had not returned to Shanghai or China for that matter for nearly 50 years.  It was here that I received a history lesson on my family tree.  As my Uncle and Mother recited their recollection of the past, I realized that this would be a perfect scrīpt for a movie during this time period.

Who's in for the movie?  If I write the scrīpt who wants to produce? Who wants to act?

Well Lots more to write, but I have been lagging this blog forever.  But for my last picuture lets appreciate how cute my cousin's kid Olivia is.