Going Home!!!

Just 1 more week until we head for home! Just a short trip of course. Main reason is to visit family and friends, and another reason is to shop for baby stuff. Baby things here in Japan are so expensive! Can you believe that the average price of a stroller is around $500? And it's not even that great for the price!!!

Anyway, aside from baby stuff, we're also looking forward to eating! I've already made my list of restaurants to go to and things to eat. Take a look at my list and let me know if I've left anything out! Good Chinese food, dim-sum, AJ's tendon noodles, Mexican food, donuts, Taco bell, pearl tea, pizza, Pho, hmm, anything else? Of course there are probably a lot of new restaurants that have opened up since I've last been at home, so recommendations are welcome!

First Snow!

It's been snowing all morning! (unfortunately, it's turned to rain now in the afternoon.) The first real snow of the season here in Yokohama! It must have snowed at least 2 inches. At lunch time, all the students were outside having snowball fights! Sort of wanted to go and join them, but didn't have any gloves, and in my condition, that probably wouldn't be the best thing to do.

It's really nice living in a place that snows. Not so much that you have to shovel the driveway everyday, but just a little bit, enough to make the ground white and enough to build a small snowman or have the occasional snowball fight or two. It doesn't snow that much in Yokohama, so I don't think I'll be able to build any snowmen or Snoopy out on the balcony, like I did in Germany. *sigh* Maybe just a mini-snowman . . . if the snow doesn't all melt by the time I get home! I better hurry up and go!

Wiiiiiiiiiii!

We just got a new tv!!! We ended up getting it on the internet, since it was about $400 cheaper than in the stores, however, you have to do the set-up yourself. The tv arrived on Friday night, and we were busy setting things up, which was mainly attaching the tv to the stand. The tv definilty looks bigger at home than it did at the store! We were so excited to start watching tv, but then we realized that it didn't come with a cable to connect to the antenna, so we couldn't watch tv after all, and it was too late to run to the electronic shop! BUT, we were able to set up my Wii!!!!

The Wii certainly is fun! At first we only had one controller, so we had to take turns playing the one game that we had, Mario Party. Mario Party is a bunch of mini games all in one, which includes a board game that you can play with other players or with the computer. The mini games are fun, since there's a shooting one, bowling, boating, etc. And some silly ones like who can shake the soda can faster, etc. Then the next day, we bought another controller and 2 more games. We found out that at Tsutaya (local video/cd rental shop) they sell used video games for about half price! So, we got Super Paper Mario and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. For the Zelda game you actually have to move your hand like you're using a sword, etc. Paper Mario is like the Super Mario series, except that you can switch from 2D to 3D.