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The Best Way to Eat Icing

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

A few days ago my youngest son had his birthday and we celebrated it in the usual fashion: cake and presents!

A few days before his birthday he surprised me by asking to have a turtle on his cake. Hmmm, not easy, but I told him I would give it a shot.

I tried making turtles from icing, but using fresh cream icing is too difficult to get the shapes to stay for any time, so I gave up. Might have been able to work it out if I had a little more time, but I didn’t. Luckily I had stopped by Toys R Us earlier and picked up a very nice turtle to use, just in case.

Actually I went by several places looking for something suitable, but couldn’t find anything.

The one I got is really life-like. Some people thought it was a real turtle on the cake. Come on, no way I’d ruin a perfectly delicious chocolate cake by doing that!!! 😉

I added a frog just because I thought it looked interesting and balanced things out.

Oh, about eating the icing? You’ll see what I mean in the photos below.

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Bynn is off to the US

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

We just got back from taking Bynn to the airport.

He’s on his way to the US to visit with my younger brother and his family for about a month.

My brother has 2 high school aged sons, so there is going to be a lot of guys around that house for a while!

He’s looking forward to spending time there with them fishing, playing paintball, and golf.

I’m sure he’s going to have a great summer.

Here are a few photos from the airport:

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Bynn’s first golf outing in Japan

Monday, April 9th, 2012

A couple of weeks ago right after Bynn graduated (well, they don’t really hold anyone back here, so technically the term would be ‘moved on’) from elementary school we got the chance to hit the links.

I’ve been several times here, and we did play together some time ago while on a trip to Guam for his first time ever on a course, but this was the first time on a course in Japan.

The weather was great though we barely beat the rain home. While we were out, it held up pretty well although the wind was a little sharp at times.

We went to Mie prefecture to the Suzuka Country Club and played the Higashi (East) course. It’s not a really long course at 6,347 yards, and no water-locked greens, but still challenging enough. The fairways were pretty wide but you were in trouble if you got out of the fairway with all the trees, bunkers, and creeks and ponds along the sides.

Bynn managed a bogey on one hole,  and hit the ball fairly well, so we were able to enjoy the day. All in all, it was great. I can’t wait till Ahn can go too.

Here are a few photos –

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Dragons’ Season opener at Nagoya Dome

Monday, March 5th, 2012

I hope everyone is enjoying their break time. I have been trying too!

Yesterday I got to go with my whole family to Nagoya Dome to see the Nagoya Dragons season opener against the Hiroshima Carp.

This year Bynn is graduating from grade school, so he received tickets to the game for himself and us. That was a very nice thing, and there were lots of kids in attendance who were graduating.

It would have been nice to see the Dragons win. Heck, it would have been nice to see them play well 😉 but that wasn’t the case.

It seemed like they just couldn’t get anything going, or keep it going.

They lost 2-0 but really should have lost at least by 4-0 but didn’t because of some really bad base running by the Carp.

It was fun going with my family though!! 😉

Here are a few photos.

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