What an Amazing 2010 Summer!

It wasn’t ideal, because my wife wasn’t with us the entire time, but it was great nonetheless.

Denise spent much of her time down at her mom’s in Monrovia and her brother’s place in Rancho Cucamonga. Currently, she is in DC with her mom and sister-in-law visiting the capital for her first time seeing the sites, monuments, museums and so forth. From her pictures on Facebook, she seems to be having a lot of fun, and it is only her first day there.

Mia and Noah spent this summer hanging out with their cuzzies, playing games (lots of Playstation with Josh and Jordan), wrestling, eating and talking and going about. They also got to play with Taffy and take her for walks. We miss them all so much!

During the homestay, Mia and Noah joined in on the fun. We had many events planned so they participated in those with the Japanese students.

In a nutshell: We went to Universal Studios Hollywood first, then saw a Dodger baseball game against the Mets, which they won, went to 5 days of Vacation Bible School and made many friends and met old ones, went shopping, to the beach surfing, Disneyland and Six Flags Hurricane Harbor, attended the Sayonara Party at a beautiful house in Santa Rosa Valley of Camarillo and then picnicked and played at Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura before we headed back home.

Celebraing Noah's Birthday and Thanksgiving

Now, we are back home in Japan baking in the hot humid weather, mostly staying indoors in AC awaiting the weekend so we can possibly head to the beach one more time before summer ends and school starts back.