The Gee Family

We hosted some friends for dinner on Christmas Eve. Paula and her three kids, Eliisa, Oliver and Niklas; Nikki and her son, Alec; and Grace and her daughter, Ava.
Like Thanksgiving, we had lots of food. Ron tried cooking a rib roast for the first time; it barely fit into our small oven. Even though Ron [...]

We hosted Thanksgiving at our home for the first time in many years. For the past few years, Iris’ niece, Jennifer, had been hosting it, but this year, Jennifer and her husband, Edward, were in London over the Thanksgiving week. It was going to be a challenge, because our oven can’t accommodate anything very tall, [...]

Our good friend and former babysitter, Bryce Fukuji, was married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony at the Long Beach Museum of Art.

We had dinner with Ron’s good friend, Julie Downes, and her flatmate, Karen. Julie has been here for the past three months, working in Sid Finegold’s lab at the Wadsworth VA. Karen came to town for the last two weeks of Julie’s stay, but, unfortunately, Julie spent most of that time working.
We had a good [...]

We took Stephanie’s friend, Kimberley Davey, who was over on a holiday from England, to Disneyland for the evening. It happened that the Sangha Teens from Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple were also at Disneyland for the day, so the girls were able to join up with them, and Morgan had a friend to go on [...]

Paula hosted a dinner to celebrate our good friend Julie Downes’ 50th birthday. Julie’s birthday was actually back in February but she arrived last month from London for a three month stay.
Paula had looked up the recipe for Killer Shrimp, which has gone out of business. The taste was actually very, very close, perhaps needing [...]

Jane Flynn came into town for a short vacation, and we got together at Paula’s house for dinner along with Maureen Teague, one of the other techs that worked in the clinical lab. We had a lot of good Thai food, and for dessert, a birthday cake to celebrate Ron’s birthday.
Earlier in the day, Ron [...]

Happy Year of the Rat!
Stephanie and Ron ran the Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 5K. This was the second year in a row that they ran together. The weather was much better (it was pouring rain last year). They went with Ron’s co-worker/friend, Tom, and his wife, Aya. Tom’s friend, Paul, also met them at the [...]