God bless China （天佑中华）

Dad's hometown was hit by an fierce earthquake. Thousands of people died or are missing. Our family was lucky. No one was injured. My cousin YueYue's family live in Dujiangyan, a city suffered serious damages. Her auntie was seriously injured but luckily climbed out of the debris of a collapsed building. Telecommunication with Dujiangyan is still not up. Dad's uncle drove there and found out all these. People lost their homes and had no place to live. Medicine were running short.
Government reacted quick and people were well united. Hope more people can be rescued and suffer less. God bless my China.
Dujianyan YuLei Park, taken by dad's uncle.

Spring funs

My blog has nothing new almost for a month. We did a lot but wrote a little. Now it is the time to write them up. First of first, dad has been busy. As a circuit designer with device background, his professional habit of being addictive of digging into the fundamental cost him a lot of time, though he felt he gained a lot. Hope someday the gain can be presented in our bank account.

However, we still got a lot of things done in this spring as dad finally gave up the idea of doing 'homework' as he realized Tony and I are too much homework to him. We went to Marble Fall strawberry farm to pick strawberries. Dad and I tried my best but only got a few dozens of OK ones. It might not be a good idea to get there on Saturday afternoon anyway. Though I ate up them all in the farm without paying a cent, we showed our support by buying their farm-made honey and jelly, which is twice more expensive than grocery stores. I fed goats in the farm and took a tractor ride. Also we did a picnic.
A week after, Georgetown community Montessori school had a festival. On the waiting list, I had to show my support with having four ice cream cones. The invited country musicians were really good. Four ice cream cones probably make me feel in that way.

Next week, I had a tour in San Antonio. Boat tour in River walk was fun. Under mom's insist with a belief that this is essentially a Mexico town with authentic Mexico food, we threw a pretty good amount of dollars only to Mexico food restaurants in the famous river walk, although Mexico style food was never our favorite in Austin. I like tortoni chips and beef. Mom was so impressed with their beef and claimed she is a Mexico food fan now for ever. (BUT after we came back to Austin, we have not had any Mexico food so far.) Dad had his first time experience with priceline.com. We ends up with paying half price to Marriott Rivercenter. Couldn't be happier about that. Next day, the grand breakfast in Oro restaurant right next to Alamo set a great mood for my day. I had a tour in Alamo so much like an adult that dad almost tried to explain to me the story of Alamo. Zoo certainly couldn't be missed. What a weekend.
The following week, there happened Austin Chinese Dragon boat festival in town lake.
This weekend, round rock express baseball family picnic hosted by dad's company...
I almost forgot to mention my new semester Saturday morning music together class has already started.
Dad's fantasy weekend is a cup of coffee with a leisure book in the morning, a bottle of game beer with a group of friends in the afternoon, and an out-family-dinner with live music in the evening. Isn't it too self-centered? It is OK to have fantasy.

It seems that we wrote too much this time. Kind like someone fixed one meal for a whole day. It reminds me our lovely neighbor Ms. Lye Bell in Providence, a cheerful writer and teacher. She mails out her 'blog' to her friends every year in Chrismas to tell out what happened in this whole year. That is really like a heck of meal for a whole Chrismas season.