Mail Day

Everyone was up to their normal routines today, although the weather was cool and rainy, I hope it gets it all out of it's system so it will be nice on Sunday for the sports festival. The school has already said that we are going to have sports day no matter if it's rain or shine. Anyways when it rains here it normally just sprinkles and doesn't downpour like we are used to in Texas.

Evan is inside playing video games today, we have a deal, if it is nice weather outside, no video games are allowed, but if it is cold and rainy or one or the other, then the boys are allowed to play video games inside. The warm weather is too short here to stay inside the house, there will be plenty of indoor time when the long winters arrive. Yasuko thought that she would be home early and not have to go back today, although the schedule at school got changed due to the rain and she will have to be at the school until 2:30 pm.

When she gets home we have to go to the dollar store and pick up some things for Koby's party on Monday. As far as the garden goes, all of the plants are looking good, and all of the potato's are sprouting, I have yet to see any of the new corn that I have planted sprout yet or the soy beans, but it is still kind of early.

We got two boxes in the mail today, one was from a author I met through the Internet who I made a video for, he sent me 3 of his books and a 2 dvd video conference he did. The second box was for Koby and was a birthday present from his Grandpa (My Dad). He got a new video game for the computer, something that he can do when the weather is bad outside. We have cut the boys game playing out to bad weather only, in Texas they stayed inside in front of the TV too much.

When Yasuko came home we went to the dollar store to get some things for Koby's birthday party we are having on Monday. We are going to invite the neighborhood kids and play some games and eat cake, birthdays are not celebrated here in Japan the way we do it in America, but we thought we would bring a little touch of America to Shibinai. When we got back I closed the plastic on the plants, they got a good watering with the rain we had today.

For dinner we had American style spaghetti and tomato sauce with lemon parsley sausage, a cartoon movie came on TV and the kids watched it until they fell asleep, Yasuko took some medicine for her cold and went to bed, and I stayed up and worked on building some websites.

Temp: High - 63
Low - 48