thor

enjoying the ocean breeze

the fam with all our boys

The majority of my free time this summer has been spent with Thor. After traveling for work I find that I just want to be at home with my boys. We spent many nights this summer down at the beach, Thor loves running free in the sand.

Hurley Pro

A few pic's from the Hurley Pro

anniversary

Three years ago today I married the man of my dreams. The journey has been fun filled and I can hardly wait to see what the next year brings us. I love you Timmy.

sushi party

Just got home from sanamiya… it’s the main town on the island. Wow. What an interesting night. After a long day at the office coloring shoes (from 7;30-7;00) dropped my bag off at the hotel had 5 minutes to run upstairs brush teeth grab my purse and catch the bus into town. This was an adventure, hop on the bus which is nice the city bus is like one of those nice tourist buses you see usually with Asians at south coast plaza or Disneyland, its clean but really really really hot lets just say it looked like I peed when I got off the bus. Any how grab an aisle seat on the bus then suddenly a guy stops and pulls out this weird tiny extra seat that sits in the aisle… then all these men start talking to me in Japanese then they start touching me and asking where I am from they thought I was Italian and the entire bus ride 5 of them are talking to me and touching me… gross! All my guys were at the back of the bus so they could not save me. Went to the most amazing authentic fresh sushi place. Had the greatest sushi I have ever tasted. Tried lots of things I have never eaten before. Since I am the newbie I had to eat a live shrimp yup u heard it right it was alive wiggling and all. The whole room was cheering me on! I ate the little guy and he was yummy and huge! The guys were pretty impressed I ate him alive with his tail flopping against my chin. Then I had to eat a shrimp head the size of two fingers… a big guy. The first bit wasn’t to bad a little salty really crunchy with lots of long long legs then the second bite was disgusting suddleny an expolsion of juice is in my mouth totally disgusting tasting… come to find out it was his brain. Had a really fun time with the coworkers. Headed to an authentic karaoke bar had a blast! Came one second away from killing a pedestrian in our speeding taxi on the way home. Had a splendidly fun night out on the town. Really like the city!

monday

All this work is begining to give me nightmares! Dreamed about me being a workaholic and tim and I getting in a fight... Thankfully the days go by fast with all the work. Just wish I could shop more!
Really starting to crave American food ( dont think this has ever happened to me before) I love food so usually I will eat or try anything. Went to the market at lunch bought some yummy Japanese food; fresh sushi, edamame, watermellon, and tempura shrimp n veggies. The grocery stores here have lots of fresh food! By the time dinner rolled around I really just wanted pizza so I ordered room service; pizza and chocolate ice cream.
Finally I have been sleeping through the night!!!! And now I finally have an apettite. Took till about Sunday to get adjusted to the eating and sleeping schedule.
Missing timmy alot and my little thor baby was sick over the weekend, so that mad me sad.
Well it's Tuesday morning so I am off to work.

sunday

Another long day... started the day at 3:45 am this 16 hour time difference is insane! Ate breakfast on the 30th floor breakfast buffet for a team meeting before heading to the office. The view is incredible. I found out the island is man made. Can you believe that? Its all so interesting. Basically every view from the hotel looks at water (you can see in the pics). Worked 9-6ish. Took a lunch break and walked to Isumato this amazing store its like walmart/target/fred meyer and I love it! I will for sure be heading back there! I got lots of treats to bring home to bu and the family. They Japanese are very into animation so the store was super cool, in the veggie section they had these charactors and the 31 flavors even had charactors. I discovered some really cute stuff on the way out... didnt get a chance to look though since I was with the big boss man and I only had 15 minutes to shop and like I said it's like walmart so there were people everywhere! The line took forever! I did get to enjoy chocolate mint ice cream from 31 flavors and a chiken terikayi kabob.
After I finally got to go shopping!!! Went to Santamia across the water. I LOVED it! I only had 3 hours to shop which was not enough (hope I can go back here this week) cause did not get to enjoy all the shops. This place was super cool with rides: ferris wheel, roller coaster, carosal, a huge indoor mall, an outdoor mall on the water, and lots of restuarants. Bought some cute stuff and some gifts for the fam but I really need to go back because so many of the cute stores closed on us. Saw some half naked vegas type dancers dancing in the mall! Serisously can you believe it? This would not happen in the O.C. Grabbed a bit to eat at the Japanese version of In n Out. The food was okay, the people watching was great, and the view was amazing right on the water.
They drive on the opposite side of the road and it totally freaks me out. I get confused when crossing the street and being in the taxi was even worse! Even the escolators at the mall are opposite it is so strange.
Well I am exhausted so I'm off to bed.
Pictures to come when I have time to download all of them, I am a total tourist taking many pics whenever I get a chance to be outside.

saturday

I was exhausted yesterday so I didnt get a chance to post. Had a very long workday... 8:30 am - 8:30 pm. Thankfully it goes by fast since I am so busy. Basically a large group of peeps sit around talking about the shoes we finalize for Fall 2010. There are so many details that go into developing and desiging one shoe in one color that it takes a very long to review our entire collection... so that is why I work such long hours.
Any how I ate lunch at 7-11! They have an entire aisle of noodles (timmy would be in heaven) they also have sushi, udon, soba, and shrimp fried rice. I ate shrimp fried rice with some yummy olive oil chips. On the way to 7-11 I had the chance of almost stepping on a Cicada. I will upload pics and video so you can really get the vibe of these annoyingly loud insects and they are large... like a big beetle coch roach mix. Not many people ever see the Cicada since they are either underground or way up high in the tree tops, for some reason this large guy was flopping around on the floor and I had the fortune of almost stepping on him.
Pictures to come soon...