Short trip to Avila Beach during Independence holiday

My company gave all employee one week mandatory vacation with shutting down our whole facility within Independence Day. My wife and I have already spent monday thru wednesday to take baby's picture and agreed that we don't want to pass all holiday week without going anywhere else since we've canceled Vegas trip due to incredible heat of Los Angeles area. So, where can be the destination for a short two days trip? We've recalled Avila beach since there's nice seafood market and best mineral host spring resort called Sycamore. The old memory of the last year's anniversary trip reminds us the taste of crabs & oysters and there's no reason to deny this idea.





Olde Port Inn at Harford Pier which is rated one of top 10 seafood restaurant in Calif.

Stella's a hundred days old studio photographing

In Korea, a good family always leave a record of photography for one hundred days old baby by a professional studio. Even though we've already taken professional pictures twice (once when we're still in hospital after delivery and the other when around Stella was two months old), Rachel wants to keep this Korean tradition, too.
So, we've made an arrangement with a photography studio especially for baby and went there couple of times to take pictures of Stella. They have nice accessories, good photographers as well as variety of packages. Taking infant to strange place is always challenging but Stella went through all of schedule really good. Luckily we met a good photographer who's also a mom of kids. She knows baby and is very experienced how to treat this little one.

Rachel's preparing Stella to take picture of her. Within each scene, we need to change her clothes and sooth her if she's not in good mood. Overall, she's really good girl during photographing.



The photographer's working really hard to take the best shot of any scene. She kept changing little detail or arranged accessories of a scene to make Stella more comfortable and let her make best smile on lens.





I took a picture of this photographer and my family to express my appreciation to her. Good job! Stella seems to like you. You did it!



I've asked her to take my family pictures with my camera as well. She nicely accepted it and took this wonderful picture for free! This would yet be the best picture of my family, currently.



Since we've picked this studio by Caster's recommendation, we knew his daughter Hajin takes one year old picture at the same time with us. They're doing their job in different room of this studio. I visited their scene after finishing up ours and took couple of pictures of them. Here are Caster, Hajin, Stella and Rachel from left to right.



Hajin was not in good mood that day and They needed to keep soothing her between scenes. Isn't she cute? She's like a little lady. Hopefully Hajin & Stella will be good friends.