Spring Vacation!

Dan had an end of semester break so we decided to make the most of it! His break just happened to coincide with his half brother, Alex's birthday party. We were so excited to be able to see his Dad and Venus, and Alex, since they're living in Hong Kong right now and it's been over a year since we've seen them. So immediately after Dan's clinical at the hospital (well, not immediately, I guess. We did have dim sum with Brandon and Emilyn first), we hopped on a plane to Chicago.

Alex had his birthday party at Pump it Up, a fun place with lots of inflatable jumpy things. At first jade was more interested in the drinking fountain

and the arcade games.
I was nervous that she would fall down the steps up to the slide, or get up there and not want to slide down, but she had the most fun on the slides and kept going over and over again.
Dan helped her through an obstacle course.
Here's a group shot. That's Venus and Alex on the left. :) Thanks for the cool party, guys.
We had to visit our favorite crab house in Chicago, Bob Chinn's Crab Shack. Dan enjoyed the crab and I enjoyed some pasta, and a melt in your mouth steak. Thanks Dan and Venus for taking us. It was so nice to see you both.
After our weekend in Chicago we went to visit Stef and Kevin in Denver. We had a lot of fun, although, Jade got sick while we were in Chicago and had a tough plane ride. The night we got to Denver, we went with Stef and Kevin to a Rockies game. It was Jade's first major league game and really fun!


Jade sort of passed on her sickness to everyone else in the house or we all just picked up something gross. We ended up being sick for the last half of our trip there.

Here are the girls, watching Dora, of course.
We played a lot of Wii while we were there. It was a lot of fun, especially when I schooled everyone in Mario Party.
Cousins!!





We went bowling. The girls spent their down time watching Dora.

We took a tour of a candy factory.
Here we are, just killing time, waiting for our tour.
Ring a round the rosie!
All you can eat sushi! Or in my case, all you can eat teriyaki chicken.

Playing at the mall.

We had a really great time, and it was so nice to go on vacation! Sorry for bring sickness upon your house, Stef and Kevin. We had a blast!!