San Francisco
Dol-Jabi (friend's daughter's the first birthday)
Today is Rachel's friend's daughter, Ashlyn's first birthday and my family joins the big party in a hotel located at Los Angeles Korea town. Stella's birthday is also coming in few months and we want to see how to do the "party" thing. (It's headache of Rachel, these days) It is Korean tradition to let the baby pick up one of items which represents the future job of the baby. BTW, lots of parents only prepare items related to what they want their kids to do. For example, more and more parents prepare stethoscope with hoping their kid becomes a medical doctor. Ashlyn also picked up stethoscope and her parents were very happy about this. Originally, Korean parents prepare money(wealth), noodle, threads(long life - health), book(knowlege - study), bow(strong - worrier or general), pen(government officer - the only official job in old time), etc. Interestingly, a medical doctor was not a good job at that time but those preferences are changing. I may pr...
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ReplyDeleteI can't express this in English.
YS> Well. Don't be too jealous on me. You have cute kids and beautiful wife. I envied you when you uploaded pictures from Suwon castle. ^^
ReplyDeleteOh, you saw Golden gate bridge.
ReplyDeleteYou are so a luky guy. last summer travel from San Diego to Boston, I droped by San Francisco to see that. However, It was so foggy day.
I could not see anything of bridge.
Even I did not see the color of bridge.
JM> Well, it was cloudy, too, but I can still see the bridge. Later same day, there was rain. You can say I was lucky to get GGB before the rain drops.
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