chicken rice soup


chicken rice soup
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mosquito bite!


mosquito bite!
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Woke up this morning and Tonchalicious had a lovely mosquito bite on her cheek! P said she could hear it buzzing around at night. Spring is in the air...maybe it's time to break out the moquito net!

oak door

Met Kitaji at the Oak Door for some lovely Shizuoka steak and lobster. Love the veggies, too. That place is all good. She's been in Japan for two weeks on vacation visiting friends and family and is back home to LA this weekend.
See ya in the summer when I hit LA!

visitors

Managed to get out of work at a decent time and get over to the dojo.
RR and co. are in town for the week and heading to Kyoto tomorrow so they joined class.
For some reason it was absolutely packed today -- 12 on the floor training, and 6 people watching class. No idea what's up -- last week we had all of 3 people, including me.
After training we packed up the massive tengu statue that Gosoke gave him for his dojo and humped everything back to the hotel, then hit Jonathan's for some dinner.

more slide!


more slide!
Originally uploaded by renfield

Met Ton and P at the park today after a lovely afternoon cutting practice. Tonchaslide loves riding the mighty roller slide and has no problem going sliding down by herself.

Kuroda Parentals were on their way to Gotanda so we got some Chinese food around the corner from the park.