Chester's blog

One fine day, Rachel and I were having lunch at home. During lunch, Rachel yelled "Honey, look outside!" and I saw the amazing scene through the window. There were a band of ducks crossing the ten lanes big street! All the cars suddenly stopped and waited for all the ducks to finish crossing street. That has taken a while. It was interesting that the tallest guy lead all others like a military band. Actually, there's a brand new shopping mall at the direction, they are heading. The new shopping mall has a cute little pond and the other side has a big artificial lake. These days, people said that ducks are often going back and forth between two water places and it's my first time to see it by my eyes. Valencia is getting interesting. ^^

Kevin, Gene, Sarah, Xin, Jessica, Rachel and I had a nice chance to stay at the house of Bob (Sarah's grandpa) located by Newport beach two nights. We enjoyed the free nights at the gorgeous home with nicest friends! Personally, I probably fell in love with Monopoly. Next time, I may have my own board with practice. :) We played guitar hero but no one could beat up the serious Kev. Look at his face! Instead, I enjoyed bodyboard for a long time, next day. Newport beach is a nice and quiet beach. Fortunately, the Saturday wasn't that cold and I could stay in the water couple of hours. But, everyone else didn't get into the sea except Kevin. Xin found his hidden talent of frisbee right here. I've missed Kevin's omelet since Big Bear cabin, last winter and finally, we could taste his delicious food again. Sarah cooked nice spaghetti with her grandma's recipe. I should try it later by myself.

I see this view every morning and night from the patio of my apartment.

Last Saturday, some of my church members (bridge group) and I had a day trip to Northern San Diego. We had BBQ lunch on the Harbor beach of Oceanside. The fine meats prepared by our photographer Ko entertained us more than enough. Although the weather was still a little bit cold, I enjoyed the nice view and smell of the ocean. After my move to Valencia, I'm missing the beach more and more. The first impression of the Harbor beach was a cute and silent but it must be different mood in a busy day of summer holiday season. The only problem was the weather. This day stayed almost cloudy all the time except few moments of sunny time. We've been there about two hours and couldn't stand any more because of the coldness. Before the sunset, we decided to move to Carlsbad to tour the famous flower field which was the main purpose of our trip. It is an attraction of the northern San Diego and there were lots of tourists from all over the place since it's the season flowers...