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15.6.11

back to real life

lines and a circle

making friends

summer biking

pitch

pretty mea

girl brunch

delux

We eased back into our regular lives pretty easily thanks to Gabe and May who looked after the Mea and Mojo and our house while we were away. Knowing that the cats were well loved when we were not there really eased my mind. Thank you so much Gabe and May! What would we do without you??

It was the beginning of spring when we came back to Toronto so easing back into our lives consisted of biking around the city again, making friends with neighbourhood cats, spending much needed time with Mea and Mojo, and some girl brunch.

We also flew back just in time for the busy wedding season and I have some new work I cannot wait to show you!

And I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for letting me share so many stories from our adventures in Hong Kong and Korea. This was more special to me than any other holiday we have ever taken. I have so many more stories I haven't told but I feel like it is time to get back to my daily routine here. Perhaps I will pull something out from the archives in the future.

One more story though. Almost everyone asked about the photo of the fish tied up with yellow string in my previous post. Jin said they are salted fish (I believe it is Yellow Croaker. Very delicious!) eaten as a side dish and he thinks you buy them by the strand at the market. A long time ago, they used to tie the fish using some sort of straw or twine, but this one is tied with yellow nylon string. They use nylon string for everything in asia!

19 comments:

  1. Beautiful shots. Summer is so lovely in Canada, isn't it?

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  2. Thank you for sharing your holiday with us, it looked like a special trip. I love the vinyl Delux sign, nice and simple

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  3. Looks like a sleepy spring. Loved seeing your holidays pictures, I was wondering about the fish too. Interesting!

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  4. travel often! we love hanging out with mojo and mea! haha =] Did you take mojo for a walk?

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  5. It was fun to read your stories and I hope you share more in the future. I like the look of Spring in your neck of the woods too!

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  6. delux's graphic design is amazing.

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  7. Girl brunch! And biking around! And neighbourhood cats! Some of my favorite things! I can't wait for more of all of those things this summer. xox!

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  8. Celine, we'd really rather just take Mea and Mojo home!

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  9. always lovely to read your stories and follow your adventures. And you always have the best eye for beautiful pictures.

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  10. they really do use the nylon for everything! love that portrait of jin with his bike.

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  11. I love this pictures of your "real life". I wish mine was that exciting!

    What a beautiful blog.


    Camila F.

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  12. am loving your photos and your blog <3

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  13. love the photos and love the fuzzy cat!! xx

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  14. <3 your photos!

    Ohhh, girl brunch..... *sigh* ;)

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  15. i'm a fan of your crisp photos. hello from California :)

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  16. loved your holiday photos and love that top shot!

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  17. i have so enjoyed hearing all about your journey to HK and Korea and look forward to more! your photos are constantly and inspiration to me ;)

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  18. Glad I got to see some of your adventures in beautiful photos but 'real life' looks beautiful too!
    <3

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