A trip to Memory Lane

On September 5th 2010, we had a chance to take a long trip by car to Las Vegas-Zion-Bryce Canyon - Salt lake City - Jackson ville - Yellowstone with a group of friends, some from class 61- JJR61 others from class 62- Leadership Scholarship 62 .
Our first meeting point was Las Vegas -

In Las Vegas, even though we did not stay at the same hotel, we tried to get together whenever we could. The first day was a lot of fun because we haven’t seen one another for many years (some 40 years even), we had a hard time recognizing friends and classmates.I,myself, had a chance to see two former co-workers from IBM.I had a blank in my head at first then a click suddenly brought back all the memories of my time at IBM-Vietnam. It was both a great surprise and a real pleasure to see them again.

From left to right : co Tho & anh Vinh Dao, anh Long & Chi Kim My,chi Hoa, chi Oanh & anh Roger Nelet, anh Trach and my coat because I was busy taking the picture!All of us talked at the same time, trying to invoke souvenirs of the past and all the jokes that we pulled on our teachers and our friends. Names of absent friends have been invoked and each one tried to give to the others the information about friends that are still around.




Same persons as above with in addition anh chi Thien and chi Tri.
Trach and I arrived quite late on the first day because of all the driving and stopping along the way. Our friends went to see a show at the Wynn – Le Reve advertized as an Aquatics Master piece. It is an acrobatic show and presents some similarities with other shows in Las Vegas (“O” and “Mystere”).

We stayed at the Flamingo and Trach managed to have a memorable picture taken.



Sinful Trach in Sin City
The next day we strolled along the Strip waiting for our Canadian friends to come.



In the meantime, our leader decided that we tried the 24-hour buffet offered by the Harrah’s casino and its Satellites. I must confess that I have never had so much buffet eating in my life.





Breakfast at the Flamingo

Bryce - Another 3D modeling, rendering and animation program specializing in fractal landscapes

Bryce is another 3D software to create landscapes that I really like. Bryce is easier to learn than Vue. Here are some of the scenes that I made.

Sphere and Water

Brick Wall

Desert Lake

Mangrove

Weeping Willow

Material Coloring

Autumn Flowers

Fall Scene

Happy Lunar New Year - Cung Chúc Tân Xuân