Tsai Family of the Parklands

中文版在英文版的下面 ↓↓↓ Dear family and friends, This year, many in our family had the opportunity to visit Taiwan. 2023 for our family included the newest baby, the passing away of a matriarch, and a blissful retirement. Li-Fang and I now have 6 beautiful grandchildren. We are grateful for family relations and blessings. Happy new year! We really enjoyed the visits from our two older daughters and their children. After Megan also came home for a month, we commenced a cross-country drive to Utah and California. We visited my brother, Tim, and his family, and San Francisco. Then we flew to Taiwan for a 2-week around-the-island tour, in which we visited over 100 people in over 50 places. By the way I retired from federal government service. While I do miss the amazing opportunities at NIST and the wonderful friends I made there, I am relishing my retirement, still teaching part-time at Montgomery College, keeping busier than before with more service, physical, and social a...

At the end of September 2023, Li-Fang and I flew to Utah to see our newest grandchild.  Li-Fang helped Melinda during this time.  I was able to enjoy time with the family and achieve some of the hot items on my bucket list of things to do in this life.  First, I attended my first football game with Jessica and Blake after leaving BYU.  I wanted to see Megan performing color guard during halftime.  We saw her from way up high in the bleachers. Our newest grandchild, Sydney, was born on September 18. I always wanted to attend General Conference in the "new" Conference Center.  So here we are: Of course, spending quality time with the grandkids was important.  Here we are at Cornbelly's, the Curiosity Museum, and Blake's 3-D parts shop. I met with a couple of the missionaries from my MTC district, Elder Kimball and Sister Ellis, after 38 years!

On September 22, 2023, I officially retired from NIST after 30 years.  Li-Fang and Josh and I celebrated with a steak dinner at Firebirds Wood Fired Grill restaurant.  I look forward to a fun retirement!

In August 2023, Jessica brought her kids to Maryland, and we had so much fun.  Daniel and Kerong also came with us on the Potomac cruise. The highlight was the highly anticipated Ocean City beach! Why not go to the Air Space Museum?

On Day 8, Brother Chen came again to pick us up to Brother Ge Guanping’s house in the morning. After treating us to dumplings and fruit, Brother Hu Rang, his neighbor, came over. We talked, took group pictures, and took a tour of the backyard orchard and the other four houses. They had built and planned their five houses to be built together. Brother Chen took us to the Shou Feng train station. We rode the train to Pingtung, where Li-Fang’s classmate, Li Guiyun, picked us up to her house. On Day 9, Li-Fang's friend took us to tour the Six Tribe Hakka Cultural Center. After lunch, she drove us to the Pingtung train station. We rode the train to the Tainan. After checking in at our AirBnb, we rode a taxi to visit Li-Fang’s aunt and her second cousin, Zheng Xiang. On Day 10, we met with our friend, Jobie Li. She drove us to Li-Fang’s dad’s columbarium to see his urn. We also went to the Tainan Confucius Temple and ate a very busy mall food court. Then she dropped us off at ...