Birthday

Happy Birthday to Koby!! He is 9 years old today! We woke up to another rainy overcast day, but the good news is that it is supposed to be no rain on Sunday, but it changed from sunny to overcast. No problem as long as the rain stays away for the sports festival. We have a lot of errands to do today in preparation for Koby's birthday party, Yasuko has been writing invitations all morning and Koby has been walking around town delivering them.

I got the plants uncovered and noticed some of the newest corn I planted has started to sprout, I am going to see if I can get some of the worm castings today for the carrots, so I can be as organic as I possibly can.

With all of the running around we had to do today, I had no time to go get the worm castings, and tomorrow will be out of the question also, so maybe Monday. We took Koby to two toy stores so he could pick out his present, he decided on a Pokemon lego set.

We had also got him a jump rope and some other things that he could play with outside, later on we had to pick up his cake at 4:00 pm, and then we went out to eat in Asahikawa City at a family restaurant.

Koby had his favorite dish Omelet Rice, Evan had a kids set with fried shrimp, hamburger steak, salad, egg, and pudding with a glass of orange juice, Yasuko had a fried shrimp and egg on rice and I had my favorite curry and rice. We were all so full we could barely walk.

After dinner we walked around Asahikawa and checked out the train station before we went to the car, it's a big difference in walking downtown at night here versus Houston, here you are perfectly safe and never think twice about being in danger, in Houston you would be fearing for your life at every step.

We came home after walking around and sang Happy Birthday to Koby and showed him his cake, he made a wish and blew out his candles. The cake was a beautiful strawberry shortcake that you can see in the video.

We all need to be getting in bed early tonight for tomorrow we will be up at 6:30 am getting ready for Sports Festival (Undokai), and then I am sure the drinking will go on till very late afterwards.

Whew it's going to be a busy one tomorrow.