a mighty wind

strong wind and strong women, these are two noteworthy attributes of Gunma, the prefecture that i live in. yesterday it certainly lived up to the strong wind part! the wind was ripping all through saturday night and all day sunday. it was so strong that several trees were blown down in our neighborhood. our place is surrounded by dead or dying pine trees, because of an insect infestation.
as for the women part, hhmmm, just ask nao! anyway a couple of months ago i read an article that ranked the beauty of japan's women by prefecture, it's unfortunate to say that Gunma ranked near the bottom...
but DON'T tell nao that!!

failed zoo trip!

we went to the utsunmiya zoo today. usually we go to the one in kiryu, which is down the road from where i work, but we wanted to try something a little different.
well, utsunomiya is about an hour and a half away and almost as soon as we walk in the wind kicks up, the clouds roll in,and down comes the rain. we had to run back to the car to head home!
it was ok because rose and nao had a chance to catch a fish at the tank. nao was psyched because she got to feed a giraffe, but rose was freaked yelling about how scary the giraffe was!

ice cream thief

a couple of weeks ago rose and i went to an international food fest in town. the food was made by people from japan, thailand, canada, india, etc. for dessert they had delicious italian ice cream. i got a cup to share with rose. she took one taste, grabbed the cup and spoon and off to a corner. after that she wouldn't share any more ice cream with me!!

snow days!

we had snow a couple of weeks ago. rose loved making a snow blob!

moblog

Geeks 'r' Us

Should I say I have a wonderful wife? Or perhaps a very sympathetic one?

Even though she despises video games, Nao tagged along to the Tokyo Game Show with me on Saturday. She says that she couldn't bare the thought of telling people that I headed there on my own. That's just too geek for her!

Hey I'm not that bad. Though I should have worn the Mario costume as I had really wanted too!

There were some pretty looking new games.

The Metal Gear Solid 4 area was awesome. They had it done up like some kind of military prison camp. AND a military prison I'd love to be kept in cause all the guards were hot models dressed in sexy army garb! (Go ahead I'm a geeky perv!!)

They had a setup for the new Resident Evil game which is called The Umbrella Chronicles. It looked like the entrance to the mansion in the first Resident Evil game.

It made me realize how much I don't have time now to play all these awesome games!
I'll just stick to Super Mario 3... Best game ever!

The place was packed! There were thousands of people. The wait to get into any of the game trail areas was between an hour or two.

Rose and Nao were hanging out in the kids corner while I was checking everything else out. Rose got some sweet free gifts like a Megaman notebook. All kinds of stickers too.

I took some pics if you'd like to check them out, just click!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14497&l=dd09e&id=656131175

Interesting Rose

Rose is getting more and more interesting as she grows up. She is really starting to know what she wants! This morning she grabbed my hand and led me to the kitchen. She grabbed a bowl and started pointing at the cereal. She was saying "koko! KOKO! (here, Here!) She wanted cherios!