jon on September 20th, 2009

As most of you know, I was in the US from August 26th to September 5th, and ended up catching a cold so I haven’t been able to upload the pictures and write this. I’m starting to feel a bit better now, so figured it was time to start this. All the pictures are online [...]

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jon on August 15th, 2009

A couple of friends from the US came to Japan at the end of July/beginning of August. The first day, we spent some time showing them around Odawara, but unfortunately the weather didn’t want to cooperate so much. We were able to visit Odawara Castle Park, and the lonely elephant was out. I think Jason [...]

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jon on April 18th, 2009

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Yukari’s birthday was last Saturday, April 11th. I started the celebrations early by making her a special breakfast!

I made some banana pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs and a little salad. I thought everything tasted great, and Yukari seemed to enjoy it all, so it must have been good [...]

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