This tuesday was my Grandma’s 80th birthday. To celebrate this occasion our entire family few up to Vancouver to hang out. Everyone except Kenny went since he was in Singapore. The trip was short but very enjoyable. We flew up friday night and came back down monday night. We had time to hang out with our family and friends that live in Vancouver.


House of Gelato’s in Vancouver. Home of the 218 flavors of ice cream/sorbet/gelato
Me and Hiroko


Hiroko, Angela Shieh, James Shieh, and Me
Check out all those people in a single ice cream shop.


Grandma’s Birthday dinner. She’s the one in Red up front.


My dad sleeping in the mall with his new buddy.


Granville Market, Vancouver BC


Me and Hiroko


Hiroko Otsuka Hsieh in the butt washing toilet store.


James Shieh, My cuz


Grandma Blowing out the candles to her cake. I think she had some help.


Pigeons hiding from the rain. Granville Market, Vancouver BC


Hiroko stealing pears from the neighbors trees


Angela Shieh, and our grandma.


Hiroko, Me, Lian, Andrea, Angela, Karina, James
Night out at Chaise.

Lets go back 2 weeks ago to when I went to Salt Lake City for the Summer Outdoor Retailer. The night of the last day of the show, Hiroko flew in to spend the weekend with me and the Mad Rock guys. Our plan was to climb on Saturday and head down Sunday. Saturday we did some climbing at Maple Canyon. Sunday on the drive down we stopped at Zion. Here are some pictures.


This random fruit/sandwhich show outside of Zion National Park.
Hiroko Otsuka Hsieh and Melissa Aoki


Here is a group picture in Zion.
Kenny Suh, Melissa Aoki, Hiroko Otsuka Hsieh, Me (Mark Hsieh)


Melissa Aoki’s first outdoor lead climb in Maple Canyon.


Jose Rodriguez, Mad Rock’s Team Captain in Maple Canyon.
Photo By: Kenny Suh