During my visit, Sandy and Rob took me and their kids to this annual event - Fall River Celebrates America, a three days event took place at Fall River's riverfront. Food and carnival rides, music and entertainment. I am glad I didn't miss it.
 

Rayden posted for his face painting.
 
                    
Malasada - Sandy introduced me this Portuguese confection. It's doughy and chewy, texture and taste similar to the Beignet I had in New Orleans.

                    
My hard drive died. It was a new computer, bought in last Aug. I never had computers died on me in such a short period. No matter how hard I had tried, that stubborn piece of iron kept its mouth shut tightly.
 
I searched online, it says data retrieve servers would cost 700 to 2000 US dollars. I am not willing to pay the even 700 dollars, neither to say, I don't want to give away all my secrets and passwords which were locked in that piece of iron. So I decided to let it go, damn... I would kowtow to it if I could have my files back.
 
Few days later, had a same model and new drive in hand, I gave it a last try... switched both electronic boards... trying to make a jump start, sadly, it still didn't work.
 
So, that's the end of the story. I lost tons of pictures which I had been working on and without backuped, I don't even dare to count how many of my pictures, recipes, files, had gone forever.
 
The moral I learned from this incident:
 
1. never trust anything, even a machine could cheat on you...
 
2. everything will gone eventually, sooner or later...
 
3. never back up, so you always will have opportunities to start fresh.

I have known many of girls online...some of them for years. Quite a few of those girls and their families live in Florida... the state in which Alan and I live. Finally, we decided it's time for us to have a get-together and be friends to each other in real life as well.

Had everybody brought a dish to share, we had a great time, meals were delicious, and had a chance to meet old and new friends was precious. The weather was also being helpful, it didn't rain. I had terribly worried all week as the weather forecast said it would rained that day.