Cabo San Lucas Bachelor Party

Cabo was truly amazing - what was more amazing is that Allya let me go by myself... Well, it was a bachelor party, afterall - and just the guys went... Well, here are some pictures - But, I can tell you!!! It was alot of fun.

We had to rent a Jeep - no other way to do it. Temps were consistently in the 80s, even during the night. Perfect weather. We ended up going Jeepin' and after some thrills and screams (mainly from me), we ended up on this beach. There wasn't anyone or anything around us, must've been what Malibu or Huntington was like 100s of years ago.




Sammy Hagar and his band Chicken Foot were in town - Guess who got free tickets?? That's right - So, Forest (The Bachelor with glasses in front), Jeff (left) Kevin (right) and jail bird(behind, I forgot his name), all went... What a blast - I had ear plugs to save my ears during the concert that ended up getting stuck in my ear all night. Kevin took it out with tweasers the next morning.

The very first day and Forest (upside down) enjoyed a few shots to start the weekend off.
This was a cock we saw on the side of the street just prior to Jeepin' - Amazingly, he just walked as if he was a stray dog.
This guy owned the restaurant (right behind him) and had more Beatles paraphernalia in that restaurant than any other place I've ever seen. They were always jammin' out to The Beatles, and amazingly, every time I opened the window to look outside - he would stare me down.. This was the view from our room.

Lake Tahoe Wedding

So from Cabo's bachelor party to Tahoe's wedding. This time, Allya and Pearl came with. We ended up going for just the weekend and took a good road trip - the longest ROAD TRIP she'd ever been on (See December's activities, she's been on a MUCH LONGER journey before).

So, during the ceremony, it ended up snowing quite a bit - enough to dust our shoulders. Pearl's first snow!! It was truly an amazing and beautiful wedding. 1 of a kind.

Pearl enjoyed herself.


Some of my friends that made it - Kevin and Jeff visible to the right with Sherry in the middle.
Right on the beach.. King's Beach to be exact.
The view of the ceremony.

4th of July 2010

OK - So, we haven't written in awhile, so here is some catch up, not in chronological order.

4th of July - We spent the morning out our friend Garry's house so Pearl could go and play with Garry's daughter and the rest of their block party. It was a breakfast block party - almost all of the neighbors showed up, except the Malaysians - So, Allya took her red white and blue (and yellow) pride to the streets in San Dimas. Before that, however, Pearl felt like she had to show off in her towels from her bath.


After that, we went home to clean up for our next party - In North Fontana at our friend's Les and Daryl's house. Les and I had to go big.. and then go home, so we spent $400 on this 60 pound pack of fireworks.

The first lighting of the night!
The Kahn Family poses with "The Big Bang"
Jeremy and Daryl with Alex in the background getting ready for the evening's festivities.

Our soon-to-be new home!

Long time no post - I blame Allya for no posts on here, and posting pictures on facebook... That's where most of the family is anyway..

Okay, I know this might jinx the whole process, but I don't care... If it's meant to be, it will be.

Anyway, Allya and I have been looking for a new home for some time, but we had strict criteria that we wanted. Minimum of 3 bedrooms for family to come and stay, large home (2000+ sf), in or near the mountains, or 0n the beach (couldn't afford that one), and an overall custom home - not those cookie cutter tract housing that you forget which one is yours (sorry if that offends some of you, but to each their own - this is our wish).

So, we found our place in San Bernardino. Affordable, not horribly out of the way of anything, and perfect in almost every way. As you will see from the pics, there are some things that are going to be needing to be done, but - that's the best part of a house, is making it a home.

This is the family room - The fireplace is what made me fall in love with it! To the right is the stairway going downstairs

This is the entrance hall looking towards the stairs and front door

There are ALOT of decks in this house - the property is over an acre, but on a steep hillside (views to come next!!) - Standing on the Promenade Deck, you can see the Bridge Deck and the Lido deck.

This is the deck that wraps around from the dining room to the family room. Views 180 degrees. We like to call this the, "Promenade Deck".

This is looking straight out at the valley towards the mountains. Because of the light, you can't see the San Bernardino's behind those, but they rise almost 8000' feet above - That's over 2300 meters!

This is from the living room looking towards the dining room and kitchen - Open floor plan! You can see the door opened to the promenade deck.

The dining room

Bedroom #1

Bathroom #1

Hall from Bedroom #1, 2, 3

Looking towards master bathroom

Kitchen

Master Bedroom Closet

Master bathroom

Master Bedroom - As you can see, there is a door leading to a deck, we call it the, "Bridge Deck"

Bedroom #3/Study

Bedroom #2

Front of the house (fuzzy)

Front of the house (clear) - Once again, this view is looking towards San Gorgonio, over 11,000 feet high - Just the light, you can't see it in the picture, but amazing view!!

Stairway (to have gates)

Master Bathroom

Master Bathroom

Looking out the front of the house - The front porch or what we call, "The Upper Deck".

The Upper Deck

The driveway, or the Helo Deck - Smaller than I want it, but the garage makes up for it!! Big enough for a man.

Stairs going to the backyard/Lido Deck

And the view to the other side of the home.

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South East Asian Tour - Vietnam

So, Allya and I bought some tickets to go from Bangkok to Saigon... We reached the airport, and I handed over my passport to the agent. As she searched through my passport, she asked me, "Where is your visa?". I told her that it should be in there, I got one when I came into Thailand. She told me that I was wrong - I needed a visa to get into Vietnam. I said, yeah, a visa on arrival. She said that there wasn't such a thing for Americans, that I needed to get a visa from the embassy prior to embarkation. I ended up getting a taxi back into bangkok to the Vietnamese embassy, ran in there, and tried getting a visa - to no avail.

So, feeling dejected, I tried to figure out what to do. Without going into too much painful financial detail, I ended up having to purchase a new ticket for Allya and I back to Kuala Lumpur from Bangkok. We arrived in KL at midnight, instead of Saigon. Unfortunately, we had a good 5 hours before our flight left - and I figured I'd make light of the situation.

So, I decided to take pictures of the old men with young asian ladies. Seen here is just a small percentage of what I could take, just at the airport... there was many more on the streets. It was a bit like hunting for Allya and I. We'd try to position ourselves in the best place to take the best pictures... As you can see, we got creative.








Ooops... That's just Allya and I

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