Honeymoon - Vietnam - Halong Bay

The final stop on our honeymoon was to Halong Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage site, featuring thousands of limestone island. 

our cabin aboard a traditional Vietnamese boat, called a "junk" 

Shan videotaping on the roof deck of the junk

squid fishing boat

kayaking on the bay

Thien Cung grotto 

Some of the islands are hollow with large caves. Thien Cung is one of the largest.

We're Married!!

April showers brings May flowers and…
LISA AND SHAN’S WEDDING!!!!

May 3 is almost here and we are very excited to see and spend time with each of you.

What to do in New York?
This list could get extremely long as New York has so much to offer, so below is a list of Lisa and Shan’s favorite things:

EAT
Lisa’s Pick: lunch: Penelope, 159 Lexington Avenue, at 30th St., 212-481-3800; dinner: Café at Country, 90 Madison Avenue, at 29th St., 212-889-7100
Shan’s Pick: Bond Street Restaurant, 6 Bond St., 212-777-2500

DRINK
Lisa’s Pick: Flatiron Lounge, 37 W. 19th St., between 5th and 6th Avenues, 212-727-7741
Shan’s Pick: La Bottega at The Maritime Hotel, 363 W. 16th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, 212-242-4300

After rehearsals on Friday, May 2nd, the wedding party will be going out for a few cocktails. For those interested, after 9:30 p.m. please join us at Valbella, located at 421 W. 13th St. in the meatpacking district.

BUY
Lisa’s Pick: Intermix, 90 Prince St., between Mercer and Greene, 212-966-5303
Shan’s Pick: Saks Fifth Avenue, 12 E. 49th St., 212-644-1704

SEE
Lisa’s Pick: MOMA, 11 W. 53rd St., between 5th and 6th Avenues, 212-708-9400
Shan’s Pick: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th St.

DO
Lisa’s Pick: Liberty Helicopter Tours, West 30th St. and 12th Avenue, 212-967-6464, and Tribeca Film Festival
Shan’s Pick: NY Yankee Game and Chelsea Piers, 23rd Street and the Hudson River

Wedding Map

We've created a wedding map to help our guest navigate the weekend. Please click here to view the map online with Google Maps. 

Wedding Update

Around here everyone's busy with wedding plans. Lisa just returned from an extended weekend in New York trying to get all plans finalized as this will be the final trip to NY till the week of the wedding. Over the weekend, Lisa was joined by the ladies for her wedding shower at La Panetiere in Rye. 

The Bachelorette!!

The girls surprised Lisa with a fun and relaxing weekend in West Palm Beach. The weather was beautiful, the drinks strong and the chatter non-stop. Everyone had a great time. Definitely worth all the planning, lying and deceptions. 

The crew: Christina, Jennifer, Laurissa, Lisa, Sarah, Ashley and Jenie (with Rex)

Dressed up in bachelorette party supplies!

Relaxing on the beach, ahh

San Francisco News

Milk

Milk is the current title of the upcoming biopic of Harvey Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant. The film about the assassinated San Francisco city supervisor and gay rights activist stars Sean Penn in the title role. Milk was shot on location in San Francisco, California and the famous Castro Street where Milk's camera shop was located was transformed in January 2008 to more accurately depict the 1970s setting of the film. The film was also shot at a number of other locations in the city, including San Francisco City Hall, Market Street and Duboce Park. Some interior scenes were shot on sound stages at Treasure Island (California). Filming most of the movie in San Francisco was seen by local officials as well as the film's producers as essential given that "Harvey Milk is such a San Francisco story."

http://en./wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_(film)

Below is a picture of a protest scene being filmed on our block right outside the window of our apartment. 

Lisa's Birthday (continued)

When back in San Francisco, we celebrated with some sushi and a fun game night with close friends. Thanks everyone!!

Happy 30th Birthday!!

While in New York we celebrated Lisa, Jenie and Sarah's birthday at Backals.
Thanks to everyone for celebrating with us!

Happy Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving we had a "Turkey Showdown!"
Team White: Lisa's Dad (and Uncle Frank, jury is still out on his allegiance)
Prepared the Deep Fried Broad Breasted White Turkey

Team Red: Lisa's brother in law, Justin and grandma
Prepared the Bourbon Red Turkey, stuffed and oven roasted

After the votes were counted Team Red was announced the winner even though there is still much debate in regards to the outcome, since 4 voters abstained.

Laurissa and Justin visit San Francisco

Congratulations Keely and Ian!

Kodi, May 7, 2000-September 4, 2007

Kodi, we love you so much and you will be missed always. xoxoxo


(from Kodi's Catster page)
Nicknames:
Kodi Monster, Munchki, Munchkin, Munchkin Head, Relli
Coloration:
Black and White
Likes:
I love to eat! I spend much of my time during the day sleeping and sitting on my Amusement Park watching the birds and people walk by. I love kneading my mommy's neck when she comes home (so much that I drool)
Pet-Peeves:
water, getting my claws clipped, being combed, the vaccum, driving in cars
Favorite Toy:
disc flyer, bird toy that hangs off of my mommy's bedroom door, anything with catnip in it, toy mice, I love to play and hide in empty shopping bags or boxes
Favorite Nap Spot:
At the foot of or under my mommy's bed, on my Amusement Park, in the closet, on the ottoman
Favorite Food:
cat food, tuna, milk, ice-cream (I only get vanilla), peanut butter
Skills:
I can open up the kitchen cabinets and I play fetch with my favorite disc flyer toy
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story:
When my mommy went to Bide-a-Wee to find a cat I was in my cage meowing nonstop. She asked the vet why I was meowing so much and she said that I probably wanted to be held. With a pitiful look on her face my mommy said that she wanted to hold me. The vet handed me to my mommy and it was love at first site. I had a new home!
Bio:
Everyone always notices my super long whiskers. Although I like my independence, I'm also very sweet and friendly. When I hear the elevator's bell I run to the front door and await for my new friend to walk in so that I can rub myself all over their legs. I'm very curious about what is inside tall cups. I like to knock them over, but I hate when they're full and I get wet. My mommy used to have these cups that I liked to shove my head into, check me out in the photo. She doesn't have those cups anymore but I still like to knock over the ones she has now.

We've moved! (again)

Our building that we used to live in was sold and the new owner has issued the Ellis Act in order to evict all the tenants from the building. Therefore we had to move.

Although we were very sad to have to leave our apartment and neighborhood, we've found another apartment that we love. It has all the amenities that we were looking for and we can't wait for you all to come and visit us here.

Here are a few pictures of the apartment on moving day. To follow, hopefully soon, will be photos of the progress.

the entrance (1st floor)

the office (1st floor)

the master bedroom (1st floor)

the kitchen (2nd floor)

dining room/living room (2nd floor)

We've moved! (again) part 2

More pics

living room (2nd floor)

guest bedroom (3rd floor)

our private roof deck

Barry Bonds Breaks Baseball Home Run Record

Thanks to one of Shan's reps who gave him free bleacher seats to the game, we were there when Bonds hit his 756th home run.

a shot of Bonds right after he hit the ball

as Barry Bonds is coming into home plate

Lisa's Mom and Dad visit San Francisco

On Saturday mornings in San Francisco the Ferry Building holds one of the largest Farmers Market in the city.

We joined the other 10,000 shoppers here for tons of free samples and some of the freshest produce used for our dinner that night.

The vineyard so nice we had to go back twice! (those of you from NY, I hope you know where I stole this from)
Mom and Dad pose in front of the plentiful grapevines of Viansa Winery.

It's not summer in San Francisco without the fog. As the sun sets, we drive back into the city to see the Golden Gate Bridge disappear as the fog rolls in.