Thursday, November 26, 2009

CA Sunshine Coming Our Way...

We're anxiously awaiting the arrival of our friends Ila and Danny. They are on the plane and heading to Okinawa right now! We're scrambling to clean up the kitchen (the mess from Thanksgiving preparations of course), and do some organizing and winter cleaning around the house. I'm just taking a break =)

Ila and I have known each other since 2003, when I came to work at TYC doing toy development alongside her. We quickly came to realize we have so many similarities, we constantly think alike and can practically finish each others' sentences - it's as if she's a Japanese version of me! To no surprise we became great friends, and it certainly made the 5 years that we worked together fly by so fast. In that amount of time she saw my relationship with Danno bloom up to our wedding and I was fortunate to be apart of her and Danny's wedding, all just before our military travels began.
I think this is one of our first photos together when we went to E3.This is our first TYC Halloween, and each year we coordinated as a pair. Some day I'll have to post the following years!
The first time I've visited Japan was for a business trip...Here's us having a good time trying out a Japanese photo booth (they get decked out with blue screens and wind machines)! There's too many other funny ones to post right now.
So we'll be out for a while since Ila and Danny will stay with us here in Oki for a 3 days, then we're all off to explore Tokyo together for a week. It will be Danno's first time there, and Leyna's first time traveling on a plane! An adventure awaits. With Ila fluent in Japanese, we're lucky to have her be our tour guide, plus unlock some mysteries here in Oki (like how to use our dishwasher) haha. So we'll be sure to come back with a recap and photos of our fun. Until then, take care and Happy Thanksgiving!

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