Camera lecture

I start taking a photograph lesson in the City of Henderson's program. Tonight is the second lesson.

Today's topic is exposure measure. I knew I could control lightness by changing the shutter speed, but I didn't know there is a measure. How convenient it is! First, I adjust to keep the light in the middle of measure. This is the standard. Then I do fine tuning to make it right side for lighter photo or to make it left side for darker photo. It's a fun! The teacher emphasize for many times that practice makes perfect. Let's try it!

New year resolution

I come up with the new year resolutions. But one month will be end shortly. I need to remind me again what I want to achieve this year.

The first thing I need to do is to keep brushing my English especially for speaking skill. What should do for that? Of course, I try to find a chance to speak English more and I decide to keep dairy at home. I believe writing will help my speaking skill too because both require similar language skill in term of "output". OK. I will keep posting my dairy on the blogger for 10 days in row from today.

What have I done today?

I felt a little bad today. I might have caught cold. My throat is a little thirsty. My nose is stuck as usual. I really cure my nose problem. It might cause a bigger disease in the future. But I didn't do anything for that today. Let's stop by Walgreen tomorrow and find any medicine for stuck nose.

Today was a little busy day. Year end result will be worse than my estimate a month ago. It took time to find why that happened.

After work, I needed to go to school parents' house to see her wound. I felt a little relieved that she was walking by herself. She will see a doctor again two weeks later. I hope the wound will be better than the worst case scenario the doctor told her before.

I will go to bed earlier tonight. I have a lot of things to do tomorrow too. I need to take a rest...

Golf Lesson

I started taking golf lesson at Desert Pines Golf Course.
Twice a week, I take the private lesson for 1 hour per each.
On that day, I get up at 6:00 and leave home around 6:30.

I just finished 3rd lesson. The lesson is really useful.
I never learned golf theory. Every instruction sounds new for me.

After taking lesson, I could feel golf is interesting!

Fontainebleau

According to Reuters, Icahn takes over Fontainbleau asset for $100 million. The construction of this project is stopped now. The project has already spent 2 billion for present halfway building. Icahn needs a few billion dollar to complete this project.

Frankly I am not optimistic about the future of Las Vegas. But it sounds interesting for me that a famous investor, Icahn, put billion dollar in this town.

I don't know what he are trying to do, but I hope the construction will complete as soon as possible and will be open soon.

Gaetano's Ristorante

Last night we went to Gaetano's Ristorante, italian restaurant located on Eastern Ave. This is the first time for me to go into this restaurant. That's was more than what I expected.

Foods are really great. Service is also good. What upset me is that waiter recommended too many foods. I couldn't remember which foods is which. I told him if they had any vegetarian food. The waiter explain that the chef is quite flexible about our vegetarian request. That sounds nice.

I am really happy to know such a great italian restaurant is close to our home. I want to come again and enjoy the great foods again.

Trip to Sedona

We went to Sedona Arizona on Feb 12-15. This is the first time for us to visit here. Sedona is really impressive place. I didn't feel anything special at Vortex point, but it is certain that every Vortex point is really beautiful place.

We enjoyed hiking in many places. I didn't know how fun hiking is! Sedona made our family become hiking lover. It is very hard for me to choose the best place in Sedona, but Doe Mesa is really good place. I can't forget that spectacular view from the top of Doe Mesa. It takes just 40 minutes for our family (including 8 years daughter and 5 years old son) to climb to the top. Doe Mesa is not so famous trail, but it worths challenging!

Devil's bridge is also really great place. I didn't see the picture of Devil's Bridge in advance. I was really surprised to see that natural arts! It definitely worths trying! I must tell one thing to those who are interested in the trail. Certainly it is just 1.1 mile from the trail head to the Devil's Bridge, but it is 1.4 miles from the car parking to the trail head. First I thought the car parking is the trail head. I was really exhausted when I figure out we were going to the trail head, not Devil's Bridge yet.

This trip is a good start for our family's hiking. I really want to go to Red Rock Canyon and Valley of Fire State Park for hiking. Death Valley is also good place for hiking.

Kingman

We will leave Las Vegas tomorrow afternoon to travel to Sedona this holiday weekend. Tomorrow we will stay at Kingman,which is 2 hours drive from Las Vegas. We have been to Kingman before on the way to Grand Canyon and had a dinner at the park. All I know about Kingman is one of town related to route 66.

Previous plan is to drive to Flagstaff tomorrow, but I changed my plan today because road condition on I-40 is unknown. I don't want to drive on slippery road in the dark.