i'm feeling much better now, thanks to everyone for checking up on me. let me tell you, food poisoning is pure misery. probably one of the most miserable nights i've ever had, second only to my first night back home after my first right knee surgery. i still don't get how 13 people could order the same thing and only one person (me) get hit.

so a pic recap of the weekend:


does anyone know what these trees are? of all the countless times all of us have driven up and down highway 5, none of us have ever seen these trees. at least not in bloom like this. the entire length of highway 5 was lined with these trees - kind of made the drive prettier than normal.



the rehearsal dinner was a full-blown chinese banquet (so we essentially had two chinese banquets two nights in a row), but this place had some pretty unique dishes. this one was a fried scallop & noodle dish - quite tasty. and the scallops were super moist.



gasp! evidence of andrew eating vegetables!



jen's nephew, joshua is super cute. he was really obsessed with roaring like a tiger.



in our hotel room, andrea fell on the floor laughing. what was she laughing at? you'll have to do your own research and find out. :)


saturday morning, bob, jt and i headed over to reni's parents house in san dimas to hang out with the whole liu clan.


audrey trying to feed beth a cheerio! so cute.



audrey hugging a teddy bear.



sandy, audrey, me, reni and beth



beth playing in her house



the whole gang


after visiting the liu family in the morning, we headed to the church for the wedding ceremony.


the central part of the ceremony



as usual, since i was stuck on the side by the piano, i couldn't get good shots of the ceremony. jen & jerry exchanging vows.



me, maria, crystal, andrea, and joy after the ceremony



jen & jerry had an ice sculpture at their banquet!



their wedding cake



it's jerry! dancing!!



crystal & walter boogie down



the party poopers who wouldn't dance. heck, even i danced part of the time, bum knee and all.



me with the newly married couple!



finally, we get a shot of them kissing, even if it's just on the cheek.


sunday morning, we headed to mosaic. the morning started with me trying to be ahead of the game and programming the address of mosaic in my GPS the night before. so we check out of the hotel, hop into our cars, and our car leads the way. except... when we finally got there, we ended up in a residential area, funnily enough, in front of church called New Harvest Four Square Church. we were joking we should just go there instead. anyway, we got the correct address (i had accidentally taken the street number of lake ave. church and combined it with the street name of the mosaic address), and drove to mosaic. the address wasn't the exact location of where the church was, and we seriously ended up on what winifred deemed "church row." we figured if we parked and just followed the people, we'd find the church. except there were so many churches in the area, and people were going to different ones! so we were late to the service, but at least we made it.


we got to see dave & christina (with some old school canaan people, except for george who already left to get his car)



my pleasant surprise of the morning was running into my china...er, "East Asia" OEX teammate, melody! we were evangelism partners, and she's now engaged. craziness. it was good to see her, though. can't believe that was six years ago.


after we left moasic, some of the cars needed to fill up on gas. andy led the way this time, using his GPS system. except his GPS took us to a non-existant gas station, so our car took the lead again. as we approached the nearest gas station, we noticed there was one on each corner, a 76 and a Mobile. we were trying to decide which to go to, when we noticed something funny about the 76 station.

look carefully! click on the picture.



this was at the restaurant i'm never ever going to again for the rest of my life. i had taken pictures of the food, but cannot even stand to look at it. ::shudder::




lastly, look at the title of the book bob is reading. maybe we should have bought it for him! haha.


phew. okay, that was long. i have tons more pictures, check them out at my smugmug.

jen & jerry's wedding
hanging out with the liu family


and lastly, by request of reni, the video of maurice's "ho hum ho hum" and sandy impersonating mr. chen. I doubt you'll get the video, and mostly all you can hear is reni laughing. this was pretty much how the whole morning went. :)




p.s. jack bauer is one smart man. and i can't believe they killed edgar!