tokyo, taipei pics

joshua tree, LA, death valley pics

australia pictures - part 3

we rode on the world's longest gondola cableway (skyrail over kuranda rainforest)

then hiked through the world's oldest rainforest (daintree)

and had a rare run-in with the world's most dangerous bird (a cassowary). our guide was freaked out. after reading the wikipedia entry now i know why..."A cassowary's three-toed feet have sharp claws; the dagger-like middle claw is 5 inches long. This claw is particularly dangerous since the Cassowary can use it to kill an enemy, disemboweling it with a single kick. They can run up to 32 mph through the dense forest. They can jump up to 5 feet and they are good swimmers."

mangrove trees at cape tribulation

frog on our river boat

australia pictures - part 2

walk from coogee to bondi beach


waverley cemetary at sunset

somewhere along the manly scenic walkway

on the way out to the great barrier reef


along the way several whales came right up to our boat

out at sea

dive map

grace ready to go

right before an early morning dive

some guy on our boat

australia pictures - part 1

part 1 - pictures from sydney

sydney tower

queen victoria building


sydney opera house

grace getting ready to eat a whole mud crab

view of sydney from the ferry

taronga zoo

grey gibbon

views of sydney from the zoo

sleeping koala

shy koala

finally awake

nyc

we were in nyc back in july for grace's high school friend's wedding. some random pics

sunset over the hudson


grace with cupcakes at magnolia bakery. yes, they're the ones to blame for all that cupcake hype


view of manhatten from our offices


i was pretty excited we got to catch the murakami exhibit at the brooklyn museum




me + a speckled hen ale, waiting for dinner at the spotted pig


i've been waiting to try this place for a while and the food did not disappoint. crispy pig's ear and ricotta gnudi below. i also suggest the chicken liver toast, roquefort burger and shoestring fries


phillippe starck's elevator walls at the hudson hotel. coming to your town soon in plastic form at the local pinkberry knock-off


tux'd up for the wedding


in other news, grace and i finished our move down to stanford. being back on campus is a mixed bag of weird, comforting and cramped (grad student apt = tiny). i'll post some pics of our new place once it's looking more respectable.

eastern europe pictures - vienna

David's Napoleon on the St. Bernard Pass, Belvedere Palace


imperial apartments, Hofburg Palace


the Hofburg's thought this was a unicorn horn and added it as a prized position in their treasury. turned out to be a narwhale tusk...


glazed tile roof of st. stephen's cathedral


lunch break at trzesniewski


there really are 57 varities of heinz...


Schönbrunn Palace




(fat) pandas feeding at the vienna zoo


spanish fans at the eurocup quarterfinal match


our view. great seats! italy lost in pk's