CRYSTAL AND ISABEL This is a weblog for Crystal Sun Zhao and Isabel Sun Zhao. As parents, we'd like to keep the records for them as much as we can.

Crystal joins her school’s swimming team. On Oct. 7th, Crystal competes in SD43 Middle and High School Swimming Meet 2015. Crystal competes in 3 evens:
50 meter freestyle, 50 meter backstroke, 200 meter medley relay

On Sep. 25th, we take Crystal and Isabel to ride bicycle at Stanley Park.

On Sep. 4th, we climber the Grouse Mountain with Sam and Jody.

We went to Whistler with Pei’s parents, 豆豆, 牛牛, 羊羊, Hui and 3. We stayed there for hiking and for bicycling. It was fun.

Then we went to Tofino after Pei’s parents went back to China. At Tofino, we took one day boat trip from Tofino to Hot Springs Cove. On the way back and forth, we luckily saw whale, sea seal and lots of sea birds.

We had a trip with Sam and Jody to climb the Chief on August 9th. We climbed all 3 peaks. 🙂

On June 15th, I flew to Vancouver by myself first. I bought a new house in Coquitlam in less than 2 weeks. Then on July 1st, Wendy took two kids coming to Vancouver too. We moved inside the new home on July 29th.

Isabel learns how to ride a bicycle at Jody’s home.

I bought a new road bicycle. Now I ride the bicycle about 2 times a week. It is tough and fun.

On May 31st, we had a farewell party at our home with our relatives in Shanghai.

On June 14th, the day before I left to Vancouver, we all came to 武夷路522号. This is the place where many of us grew up together. Now, we have become a big family who lived at different locations in Shanghai.

Mei came to Shanghai with her classmates. She stayed only one night at our home on March 25th.

Since I decided to move back to Vancouver in June, I needed to spend some time in our new Wuhan factory from March to May. I had lots of free time during the weekends because I’m just by myself. I did a lot hiking during these 3 months.

April 18th to 19th, 武当山: Walked 18km to 五龙宫 on the road. Then 7km to 武当山天池 through the valley.

April 25th to 26th, 恩施鹿院坪:

May 1st to 3rd, 江西武功山:

May 9th, 湖北省英山县篓子石:

May 16th and 17th, 湖北神农架:

We passed 黄山 a few times before. But we never got a chance to climb it. This year, we finally found 4 days to visit 黄山. We arrive at city of 黄山 on Feb. 14th and stayed for one night. On Feb. 15th, we got up at 6:30am. There is a little rain. It took one hour for us from the city to the bottom of 黄山, 慈光阁. We started to climb around 9am. At first, my guess was that we need 7 hours to arrive at the hotel we will stay, at 西海景区. It’s over 10KM of climbing. But the two girls climbed faster than I thought. We finished the first day’s climbing in 5 hours.

The next day, I got up early by myself to see the sunrise. Luckily, I saw it the first time after I have been 黄山 3 times.

Next, we visited 西海景区 and 北海景区. Then we walk down the mountain. Around 2pm, we were already lying on the bed at a Hot Spring Hotel. We tried 黄山温泉 in the night.