April 30, 2010 - San Jose, CA: Jue & Dexter’s Wedding

San Jose, CA: Jue & Dexter’s Wedding
Apr 30, 2010 09:06:55 PM

     Our vacation started with a trip to San Jose California to take part in a wedding for Khine’s friend Jue. On the way over we had a layover in Salt Lake City Utah where we almost missed our connecting flight, we had to run to the other side of the airport and they were literally closing the gate door as we entered.
     San Jose was chilly, about 68 degrees, sunny and breezy. This was only my second time to California, but I didn’t really have time to do any site seeing the first time because it was for work, so one could argue that this was my first real time here. San Jose is right in the middle of Silicon Valley so as soon as we started driving away from the airport I saw tons of headquarters of big tech companies. (i.e. Xilinx, VMWare, Apple, Cisco, Adobe)
     The first thing we did was go out for Korean food, we were starving and Jue and Dexter wanted to treat us. Next we went out into the country up to the mountains for some hiking and to see the view. And what a view! CA is soo beautiful, so many insanely steep rolling hills and mountains all in close proximity covered with everything from forests to flowery plains to dry desserts. We were so high up that I was getting a little afraid of the heights, even the drive up was scary because of how close to the edge of cliffs you get driving around every other curve. I got some good pictures up there though.
     Afterwards Jue’s parents came over and we watched them all perform the Chinese Tea Ceremony, which is done before the wedding as a sign of acceptance. Then there was the pre-wedding party at one of Dexter’s coworker’s house. They were serving 5 different pizzas.
     On the wedding day we all got up early, dressed, and drove down to Monterrey. It’s about an hour south of San Jose. The wedding and the reception were held at Tarpy’s Road House; a classy place with an antique look. The wedding went really smoothly and it seemed like everyone had a good time.
     Afterwards Khine and I drove over to the beach for a photo session of our own. The wedding party was going to go to the beach for pics but things were getting a little behind schedule so they canceled it. Khine and I went anyways because we wanted to see Pacific beaches, especially since we traveled so far.
     On our drive back to Jue’s we stopped at an authentic CA orchard and bought a box of freshly picked cherries and strawberries. We also stopped at a farmers market to see what local products were indigenous to that area.
     At Jue’s there was a final wedding party. And again we had pizza! We all stayed up late playing games then crashed. The next morning we pretty much said our goodbyes, took a detour to the SF airport through Cupertino so we could see Apple’s Headquarters, and we were off to Singapore.

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