Blues, Beaches, Boba, Boys & Buddy

My continuing guest blogger, Hannah's, last post (Editor's words)

Today we left the house around 4:00 and Dabby left the house at 1:30 because he had to eat lunch with his friend. When he came back we decided to go to a birdy park at Stanley Park. We went to see the blue herons. There were tons of nests. We saw families of them. We even saw some flying.

These heron nests were amazing. Supposedly there are about 50 nests up in the trees in Stanley Park right next to the tennis court, Country Club buildings, and restaurant.

If you look carefully up in the trees you can spot quite a few nests in this one.

With a closer lens, you can see that not one or two but sometimes three herons are sitting on one nest. Why? I have no idea. Maybe one is visiting the couple?

Nests can get up to 4 feet across and nearly 3.5 feet deep.

Herons can curl their neck into a S shape for a more aerodynamic flight and to quickly strike prey at a distance.

They can get up to 4 feet in height but only weigh 5-6 lbs due in part to their hollow bones, a feature all birds share.

The nesting period is 49-81 days. Incubation of eggs are 27-29 days.

We went across the street to another tree and saw that one nest on a branch fell down. We saw a dead fish laying on the ground from the nest. We think that the herons caught the fish and brought it to their nest to eat. It was really smelly because poop was everywhere. The tree, branches, and leaves were all white.

A fallen nest. See the dead fish next to it? The nest was huge!

I was in awe of the nests and all the herons nesting but could not stand the smell of the bird poop everywhere!

Next we went to drive around the park and stopped at this beach. We saw a second beach! Which was a huge swimming pool next to the beach. It was a second beach.

A public beach in Stanley Park....

...which was literally right next door to a public swimming pool. It looked very nice but no shade! :(

Pool or beach? Let's do both! The pool was very affordable.. around $7/adult for the day.

Then I wanted a boba drink so we went to Dragon Ball Tea House. We ordered a drink for Auntie Stacy and me and JJ.

Dragon Ball is Stacy's go-to tea place!

Then we went back to the house to rest.

We played with the boys some more. 5-Sook could not wait for us to come over.. reinforcements!

Tate playing in the kitchen sink. Yep.. Grandpa's idea of course! We just hoped he would not turn on the faucet!

I was entertaining Bryce by shooting bubbles into a container. He loved it! Oh the simple joys!!

Grandpa (5-Sook Goong) reading to Tate before bed. Who's that bothering me?

Of course it was Uncle Matt!

...and then went out to dinner at Golden Seafood restaurant. We ate with the whole family. We said good bye to everyone because we weren't gonna see them in a while.

Matthew was trying to take a panoramic picture from his iPhone. He set the phone down on the lazy suzy and turned it to capture everyone but he was too slow and couldn't get everyone in one shot.

Most of Matthew's Dad's side of the family.. some of our favorite people!!

Then we went back to the house started packing and went to sleep.

(The next day) we left the house around 9:30. We said goodbye to Buddy, 3 Goo Po, 3 Goo Goong.

The girls with Buddy

Then we drove to Seattle and ate at Din Tai Fung (again). The food was so so yummy. Then we went to the airport and dropped off our luggage and boarded the plane. It was the Alaska Airlines plane. We noticed that it was made by the Boeing company that we took a tour of.

This plane was way bigger than the other one. I sat next to the window that was near the wing and the engine. I liked watching the wings move. Then after the flight we picked up our luggage at claim 15 and went outside. Goong-Goong picked us up and we ate dinner at their house. Then we drove home! :(

-Mui Mui Blogs

And that is the end of my guest blogger, Hannah's recap of our trip to Seattle and Vancouver! 

On another fun note.. we found out that Matthew's cousin, Jason, (3-Goo-Jeh/Jeung's son) and his family were featured in Justin Timberlake's newest music video, "Not a Bad Thing". They're the Asian family interviewed. You can check it out below.