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Off We Go…

We find out the gender of baby#2 tomorrow and we are very excited!

Fish Bait?

Some of the foods we came across during our travels. Yes this stuff is for human consumption.

My mom is coming to visit soon and I can’t wait to see some of her reactions to things. This title is for her.

19 Weeks

Almost half way there…looking gigantic today. I think it is the dress. I’m secretly hoping it is the dress…I might be HUUUUUUGE  by the time 40 weeks rolls around.

Japan

A little funny I came across…

Whale

While traveling on the expressway we stopped at one of the many gas station/rest stop/convenient store locations. At this particular stop I came across this really dark meat with (as you can see) fish characters near by. I’ve never seen black meat before so of course I was curious. To my surprise…it was whale. Whale steaks, whale tuna, whale in general. It’s apparently that dark because they smoke it and salt it for consumption. Cultural differences are interesting. I thought it was crazy they sold whale like that and he thought it was odd that we don’t in the United States. He remembered eating it in the cafeteria during elementary school. Has anyone eaten whale before? What’s it like?

Cheesecake

Apparently this bakery/coffee shop makes “the best cheesecake ever”- Peter.

Thanks Neo Classic Clover…too bad you are so far away in Nagasaki.

Happy Valentines Day

Even though we shouldn’t need  a special day to show our love for one another… ill go ahead and jump on the bandwagon… for my blog’s sake.

Nagasaki Lantern Festival By Day

The Lantern Festival is held yearly to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Peter and I went on an overnight trip to Nagasaki to enjoy the festivities.

China Town

One of the performance areas.

Highway Robbery

There’s this cute little store I’ve seen around Japan called, what I assume is, Franc…but since they always have it Francfrancfranc, I call it that. They have random things, mainly house stuff. When I was there this last time I came across some mighty expensive, shouldn’t be expensive, stuffy.

Exhibit A. Body Fantasies. Isn’t that the Wal-Mart brand???? They are selling normal sized bottles for 1,575 yen which would be $20.41. Crazy. Robbery.

Exhibit B. Normal sized Febreze. They are selling it for 1,000yen or $12.96. Robbery.

Exhibit C. A small package of 40 Downy fabric softener sheets. They are selling it for 900 yen or $11.66. Robbery.

Moving

With baby number 2 on the way we get to move into a bigger house! Yay!!! We re going from a 1 story, 2 bedroom, 1 bath to a 2 story, 3 bedroom, 3 bath. We have so much more room I hardly know what to do with it all! Moving is always a little exciting and a lot exhausting. It starts today!! Wish us luck!

Chinese Acrobats

At the Nagasaki Lantern Festival we saw a dancing dragon show and the Chinese acrobats which were amazing. We took lots of videos. I need to get better about getting those on here as well because video is much better than picture with things like this!!

One of the three dancing dragons.

A shot of the crowd and some lanterns.

This was a magic show of sorts. She could change the color of her mask right in front of your eyes.

This guy would throw the pots around and catch them on his head, back, and feet. Very neat.

These girls danced and had these huge yo-yo things they manipulated.

These kids were just amazing. Contortionist. Pure strength. Awesome.

This pretty girl did everything. She stacked chairs and then did balancing acts on them.

This was the entire group doing different things together.

Another lantern.

McDonald’s

If Americans weren’t made out to look like the fattest people in the world already, look what is popping up in foreign McDonald’s.

Yay.

Breastfeeding

I have officially stopped breastfeeding. Cora and I did a full 25 months together and it was great. So much more than I had ever imagined. I’m so glad I never gave up. I know she is too. All things come to an end and with baby #2 on the way the end had to come soon.

No denying it, she is our child.