The 'KLHKK' Blog!

The Flights and the First Day in Japan Okay, first post from Japan by Kazumi. I cannot write as good as Keoki, but I will try. Here is how our trip and our first day in Japan went. We arrived Japan at 4pm on 26th. On our flight to Osaka, Wami and I both had a bulkhead seat, but we couldn't sit together. As a matter of fact, they are not supposed to have more than one baby in each row (? section) because of the number of oxgen masks or some kind of reason. Anyhow, Loa was pretty good on the plane. On our first flight to SFO, I tried to feed him at take-off, but I started too early. He fell asleep even before we reached the runway. He was a little bit fussy one time during the flight so I fed him. He kept drinking and threw up on my shirt (great) (Keoki: 'A-Boo!'), then fell asleep again. He never woke up until we were walking around in SF airport. Although I had brought his stroller, I carried him in the Baby Bjorn and put my and Wami's bags in the stroller,which I felt...

SOLO! (Me saying goodbye at the Airport..) So the wife and son are finally off on their grand excursion to Japan for a month to see the nihon family. Leaving me to work..... Go to school.... And paying the bills....... NICE! If I think to much on it I'll probably get depressed so hmm? Lets look on the bright side and think of the advantages of being a semi-bacholer once again shall we? 1. The bed has finally been relinquished! To be more specific and give you a better understanding of how much this matters I will give you a little idea of how the sleeping arrangements are in our little home. First off I married a woman from Japan where she's used to sleeping on a futon on the floor so basically the whole floor became her bed at night growing up. This thus turns into me coming home from work to see she (Kazumi) is all over the bed, the covers are mangled and half the pillows are on the floor. Including most of the time my pillow. Wonder if she's trying to tell me something?...

A Bad Weekend.. Almost! Another weekend over and besides house cleaning and tending to the Master of the home (Loa) nothing much was done. Though we tried. Tried to get up to the Outlet shops in Park City but for some weird reason our 'Check Engine Light' came on and we didn't want to risk it. It was mostly to get baby clothes for Loa for when they go to Japan. Not that he doesn't have enough but I guess Kazumi just wants him to look his best for his grand parents and his uncles and aunties. Plus with winter coming up we just want to make sure he has stuff he won't out grow. Tried to go to Matsuri (Japanese Festival) like I mentioned in my last post but we thought it was supposed to end at 7pm when actually it ended at 5:30pm.... When we got there. NICE! But we did get to see some of the crafts like bonsai, ikebana, someone was doing caligraphy, and a few other things. I was just upset that we missed the food. grrrrr! It wasn't a total loss though. Since it was ...

More Food! Also a Loa Weight Update! Another new post though it doesn't seem like anyone is looking because of no comments (hint, hint) j/k! Yesterday got a chance to meet up with some of Kazumi's old co-workers/ friends Scott, and Shiho for dinner at Kyoto's here in Utah. Just a sampling of the food below! I had the terriyaki chicken which is rare for me (I usually get the terriyaki steak) but either way it was good since they use the same merinade anyways. Man I gotta get the receipy for the marinade. Maybe I can get Kazumi to get Shiho who works there to sneak it out for me. I know it can't be that hard. Scott got the terriyaki steak and Kazumi got the Nabeyaki Udon which was suggested by Wami another one of our friends. Man that thing was huge! Shiho had to work but she talked with us a bit between waiting tables. Next week we might be going to a Matsuri (Japanese Festival) downtown just to hang out and have some fun. They are not very big but still fun to go to an...

New Photo's in Flickr Ok just a quick post. Added more pictures on th Flickr account since the pics I had on the site were pretty old. Click on the link to the right to check em out. One is from a baby meeting Kazumi and some of our friends with babies went to at Liberty park. Sorry I also took some of the older ones down cause it begain to get repetitous. I'll add more to this post later if I have time at work but I'm losing things to write about. Of course that hasn't stopped me before but theres always a first time....

A Slow Labor Day! Ok so here I go again. Happy Labor Day especially since I'm laboring at this time! Kinda.. Working late at night on a holiday....... Boooooring! So I ended up watching movies all night at work (just don't tell the boss.) I saw the movie Swing Girls which is a Japanese comedy about a bunch of japanese girls stuck during vacation making up for poor scores in math who deliver bento's (lunches) to the highschool band and in the process end up spoiling all the lunches and getting the whole band sick then having to create a band to replace the ones they made sick. I thought it was really funny. Next I saw Fearless with Jet Li. He plays a real life martial artist Huo Yuanjia during the turn of the century. When I started reading more about the real life person from Wikipedia , the movie sounded so fake. Even more than a 'Wire Fu' movie should be. But I guess all in all the action was good. You really can't go too wrong with a Jet Li asian produced mov...

First Post! Well First post on this blog. I've had it a while but never got around to using it till now. Kazumi just saw me typing all of this stuff below to send in an e-mail and said why don't you just put it on a blog. So here I am a couple of hours later getting this thing to where I want it and still not succeeding at all. But for a first post I guess its alright. Right now everything is fine but there are some big transitions here. I'm back in school (yuck!) and it's finally cooling off now that Fall is here. We might be moving from our current location. The people we were renting from finally decided that they would sell this place and it would probably be finalized around the end of September. The good/bad news is that the person buying is doing it as an investment option and would like to still continue to rent the condo to us (good) for about an extra $50 a month (bad) so we are currently looking for another place. We have a place a friend of ours referred us ...