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Well I guess I should update about the rest of my trip and stuff.
Well the drive back to Texas wasn't bad. I slept for most of it. Especially when my parents put on this Christmas music that didn't have any words and was so bloody boring! Just the same tune for five minutes. Ugh. I plot to make that CD disappear and replace it with Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
We got home about 4ish on Christmas Eve Day and after unpacking the car, Tabou, Dad, and I went to try and go pick up the dogs, but the owners of the dog kennel my parents placed them in weren't there so we had to head back home. We then got a small break before heading to a family friends home for a Christmas Party. Poor Tabou had a crash course in Cajun, Louisiana, and strong Texas accents that night.
The next morning Tabou got up early to study and I remained in bed, asleep, until my parents brought the dogs home and they paid me a 'visit'. DOGGY KISSES!
The rest of the time was filled with visiting friends (Hi Mary! Hi Katie!), getting a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite, 320GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, heck yeah!), portable hard drive (320GB), Nintendo DS Lite (need more games!), staying the night at the parents lake house (pitch black outside and an open wall of windows out the back = every horror movie out there..... will buy them curtains for the back window for Christmas), trying to go to karate (if only I'd looked at the internet before hand I'd have known they moved locations and where to go!), eating good food (Tabou has a black hole for a stomach, I didn't need to worry about not finishing my dinners... he did it for me!), and shopping (deodorant, lots of deodorant). Too bad the only free time we had to go to the museum and it was closed.
New Year's was a bit dramatic. Mom made her famous potato soup, Katie and her boyfriend were coming, and there was going to be a party at a family friends place. When mom's doc down in Houston told her to go to Tyler to get an emergency MRI. Thought it wouldn't take long, but... they wound up not getting back to home until way after midnight. Meanwhile my rag-tag group of misfits and I went to the party and played games until midnight and then went home and slept.
The next day mom, dad, Tabou and I finished off the potato soup and then packed up to head for Dallas and our planes the next day. We had Benihanna's tenpanyaki for dinner. Poor Tabou's flight left at 6am so he had to be at the airport around 4am!
Well the flight back was long and uneventful. Thankfully. Met Tabou at the airport and alas, we were unfortunate to have to part ways.
But not before I got an awesome and lovely and amazing and beautiful Christmas/Anniversary present. ^_^
But now I'm back in Japan and back at school, and people are right. Two years is good. Three is a pain. I WANT TO BE DONE WITH THIS SCHOOL!!!!
Now I'm in the process of planning a trip for Golden Week, a trip in May for canyoning and white water rafting, and a HUGE England/Scotland/Ireland trip for August/September.
Busy, busy I be.
Well the drive back to Texas wasn't bad. I slept for most of it. Especially when my parents put on this Christmas music that didn't have any words and was so bloody boring! Just the same tune for five minutes. Ugh. I plot to make that CD disappear and replace it with Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
We got home about 4ish on Christmas Eve Day and after unpacking the car, Tabou, Dad, and I went to try and go pick up the dogs, but the owners of the dog kennel my parents placed them in weren't there so we had to head back home. We then got a small break before heading to a family friends home for a Christmas Party. Poor Tabou had a crash course in Cajun, Louisiana, and strong Texas accents that night.
The next morning Tabou got up early to study and I remained in bed, asleep, until my parents brought the dogs home and they paid me a 'visit'. DOGGY KISSES!
The rest of the time was filled with visiting friends (Hi Mary! Hi Katie!), getting a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite, 320GB hard drive, 4GB RAM, heck yeah!), portable hard drive (320GB), Nintendo DS Lite (need more games!), staying the night at the parents lake house (pitch black outside and an open wall of windows out the back = every horror movie out there..... will buy them curtains for the back window for Christmas), trying to go to karate (if only I'd looked at the internet before hand I'd have known they moved locations and where to go!), eating good food (Tabou has a black hole for a stomach, I didn't need to worry about not finishing my dinners... he did it for me!), and shopping (deodorant, lots of deodorant). Too bad the only free time we had to go to the museum and it was closed.
New Year's was a bit dramatic. Mom made her famous potato soup, Katie and her boyfriend were coming, and there was going to be a party at a family friends place. When mom's doc down in Houston told her to go to Tyler to get an emergency MRI. Thought it wouldn't take long, but... they wound up not getting back to home until way after midnight. Meanwhile my rag-tag group of misfits and I went to the party and played games until midnight and then went home and slept.
The next day mom, dad, Tabou and I finished off the potato soup and then packed up to head for Dallas and our planes the next day. We had Benihanna's tenpanyaki for dinner. Poor Tabou's flight left at 6am so he had to be at the airport around 4am!
Well the flight back was long and uneventful. Thankfully. Met Tabou at the airport and alas, we were unfortunate to have to part ways.
But not before I got an awesome and lovely and amazing and beautiful Christmas/Anniversary present. ^_^
But now I'm back in Japan and back at school, and people are right. Two years is good. Three is a pain. I WANT TO BE DONE WITH THIS SCHOOL!!!!
Now I'm in the process of planning a trip for Golden Week, a trip in May for canyoning and white water rafting, and a HUGE England/Scotland/Ireland trip for August/September.
Busy, busy I be.