Days together~ 1/21-2/13/2011

Sheon and Naomi came from Japan for 2 and 3 weeks respectively...My mom came for four nites too~from Pennsylvania, and for one special nite..."Senior Night"

That night, every Senior on the basketball team had their family go out on midcourt to be thanked. It was special.

The kids cut Taka's hair ahead of the special eventthey are so cool!

Naomi, trying to piggy back Zen... Zen, me and Sheon...

SASHIMI!

Naomi knows how to make it look SO pro! And then Mom getting the best service we could give her!  

     Naomi and Sheon went to walk Grandmom's dogs. Grandmom lives in a mobile home park

   
we have a neighbor's gate to go through to walk the dogs in the neighborhood park.

One meal outside home which we tried, at a vegetarian restaurant. Didn't quite "go over"

but we felt happy with all of us together anyway!

Naomi got her tattoo here... in San Fransisco

"love beauty happiness" the words were translated from

KOUFUKU BI AI and then the opposite direction

love=AI　beauty=BI       happiness=koufuku  幸福　美　愛

with Mom we went for some mexican food. TACO salad~~

And with mom, shopping...oh those girls shopping, on and on, and oooooooonnnn....

Here, below, Naomi and Sheon begin trying to pack up all the souvenirs and such~

They did get to take back all their stuff. Thanks to another friend, Akira! Akira used to play with Zen on a team called VSOG, in Nishio. Zen was an 8th grader and played together with the adult team.

Akira came to Santa Cruz two times now to see Zen. AND Akira could take an extra piece of luggage back for the girls. Nice for both of them! He got to see us all again, and the girls could pack up extra luggage!    ALSO, coming to see us...

John and his son Marley FROM HAWAII! Well, they didn't come to see us from there, they happened to be in Carmel, just a little south of us. Naomi lived with John, his darling wife, our darling friend, Eiko, their older son Jackson and Marley in Honolulu the year Zen came to California (2007). Catching up with them was GORGEOUS! Especially when thinking that maybe Zen could go to the one University which has accepted him:  Hawaii Pacific University

Speaking of CARMEL

Dear tennis playing friend Val, took us "out on the town" in Carmel!

We got to go to a musem...and nice shops...but the ocean and lunch was the best! Tho COLD!

At Grandmom's~

Four generations of us~Dad's almost 92 year old mother, my mom, me and my daughters.
Back to the beach, me and Taka~

and a "last meal"

those girls and boy loving each other, is so very special!