Hey Everyone,
I had to write to let you know that Im still alive and well and living in this crazy town. I know you ask, where have you been and I must tell you that I have missed writing my blog but have either been 1) too sick to write (stupid summer flu bug) or 2) too pooped to put words to paper. This summer has been so full Im not sure where I went but I think it has been fun. We went to a few bball tournies as par for the course with basketball kids Oh, I saw some awesome sight that included a tour of the emergency room in LV while we were there when Mia hurt her ankle in the first 5 min of her first game.
We spent a week entertaining a visiting child from Japan who was either mute or extremly shy and put together with my son the next Emmy Awards introducer and it gets you complete and utter silence- Oh take that back- it was me who used all her fine Japanese language skills especially when we went to the shoe store and I show him a shoe and tell him it is "muy lighto". I like to say he understood but the only person who understood me and just bout peed his pants laughing was my son who happened to be listening.
I got so sick before our noisy neighbor from Japan arrived that when it came to entertaining I left Craig to do some of it, leave it to him to teach them how to fold up paper at a fine resturant and play finger football yelling score everytime it went on their lap or through his goal. The mother and brother who came along from Japan must have been thinking "wow, we came all the way to the US" for this? Hey but we taught them so many other things- like- how to eat a RED HOT fireball candy and survive, how to pick up bacon after they tried to use a fork to pick it up off the plate- I was tempted to see how long they would push the fatty string of piggy around the plate before giving up but found mercy and showed them they could pick it up. Or when they tried pancakes and I almost gave them ketchup just to see their reaction. I know what you are thinking, but Im just messing wit you! I could never do that.
Here is the funniest thing about this small part of the summer- we get an email saying how much they enjoyed their time from the brother of our homestay and he says that they all enjoyed their time here in the US and liked the whole Sasaki family but he likes Mia in a different way, heee hee when we told Mia, she pretty much freaked out. HEy maybe we will still have good relations with Japan after this visit, I was afraid we might have left a bad impression after I got the mom drunk off one margarita!
Will write more when I get a chance! See you soon!
