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ICAN Festival 2013

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

I have always appreciated being asked to take part and perform in the annual festival for ICAN (International Christian Academy Nagoya). This year the weather was a little better than last, not as hot and not as windy 😉

There were some other interesting performers and participants this year, too.

More great food, too…

This year our band, Meito Junction, had some guest singers, my sons. I really had a good time, and I hope we can do this again.

Here are a few photos:

May Golf Event – Enakyo Park – Gifu

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

We made it out all together again to play golf at Enakyo Park in Gifu this past Saturday. We played while Bynn had a special lesson with his coach.

Yes, it rained.

Yes, it rained a lot.

Yes, that made some things a little more difficult.

Yes, it also made things much, much cooler 😉

Both my wife and younger son were really happy to get to play this time around and said they were enjoying it much more now that they can at least hit the ball down the course rather than here, there, and over there.

I only lost one ball, so I had a pretty good day although I only parred 2 holes. Still, it was fun, and I really enjoyed myself.

The course is a short course, not a Par 3, but short. No Par 5 holes, and only a few Par 4 holes. Par for each 9 is only 30, and Enakyo Park has 3 different 9 hole courses. Many people go there to play 27 holes in one day, but we were ready to call it a day after 18.

We stopped just in time since the rain began to fall really hard when we went into the clubhouse.

Anyway, here are a few pictures:

 

2013 Golden Week

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

Back to work and school and classes and trying to get back to a regular (or what passes for that at our house) schedule.

This was a very strange Golden Week holiday for me for some reason. The off days fell in a strange way, but still we managed to put several days off together and spend some time just the family, and also with our friends and their families.

We BBQ’d a couple of times actually, which is something we often do, but not usually leaving our place to do it. This time around we went to Haewa Koen with some friends and cooked out. I ate till I almost died… Just cooking meat, eating meat, … We were a little lacking on the side dishes this time around, but there was an awful lot of meat.

Here are a few pics:

 

Fun Apple Cake

Thursday, January 10th, 2013

Here’s a fun cake we just got, and of course ate!

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Christmas Cookies!

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Last week my two sons had their Christmas piano recital. I couldn’t go because I had to be the parent in charge at the ping pong club that Ahn still belongs to though he couldn’t go…

Anyway, they brought these cookies home with them, and I thought they were really cute and interesting.

Christmas Cookies