My favorite day comes by once a week and we generally make pretty good use of it. This week, we left the house at an earlyish time and headed out for Kawagoe for a whole day of fun and games ( Read more... )

Work work work... can't forget to play ( Read more... )

OK, this is Kai and Ray's fourth time at the ski hill and third time using the chairlifts ( Read more... )

On Sunday, we went out to see the circus. Because Katsuko is the boss of the children's group for our area, we got a set of 4 tickets to a Russian circus. No... it wasn't a bribe but it was because after distributing the tickets to all of the kids, there were quite a few leftovers and the organisers just kept them ( Read more... )

OK, we had so much snow recently that we just had to put it to good use ( Read more... )

OK, I haven't written a journal for a while because snow has captivated all of my free time ( Read more... )

Kai and Ray were both down with influenza last week, so I stayed home and took care of them on Wednesday while Katsuko took care of her parents ( Read more... )

Last week was pretty busy for me. The university decided to double my course-load next year. Well, that will mean that some of my side-ventures will fall by the way-side or face some cut-backs. Oh well. I've already re-organized a number of my classes to make better use of my time and let me keep my sanity ( Read more... )

Sunday was an exciting day! It was so exciting in fact that we had to split up to enjoy everything ( Read more... )

On Sunday, our nephew Taka-kun dropped by at 0800 for a day of fun with us. Shortly after he arrived, we all left to go skating in Isesaki. It was his first time but as he'd done some roller-blading in the past, he was quite good and had LOTS of fun! He was on the ice pretty much the whole time and was second-last off the ice. Ray didn't want to go ( Read more... )