This was *supposed* to be a post about Okinawa...

Sage advice... who knew.

Whirlwind trip to Aus...

お久しぶりです!

Greetings loyal readers! Hope all the residents of the Northern Hemisphere are keeping toasty warm as the weather cools down and the snow piles up. Lin and I had been planning and plotting and scheming since last year to make this super secret surprise visit happen. I saved up my pennies last year and got myself ready to *finally* make my way down to Brisbane to visits my Laheys. 8 years in the making, this trip was. Can you imagine how excited I was? Maybe. Haha.

Sunrise as viewed from the back deck of Lahey Lodge

This may seem like a strange thing to blog about...

My beautiful motherland.

...but I went to Canada to visit my family as it had been about a year since I had been away. The time has flown by this year, for the most part. I wonder how year 2 will feel.

Anyway, because this is not just read by my Mum (Hi Mum!!! *waves*), I thought I would stick up a few photos from that whirlwind tour.

New Year's Day in Hirosaki

Happy New Year!

After grabbing a few hours sleep, Nancy and I met up with Mel and Jeff at the mall hoping to find a promising Good Luck bag... nothing really caught out fancy though... except for an infomercial that was playing where Japanese women rubbed a tool with testical-sized-disco-balls on their faces... from the before and after shots, we guess that it's to move any fat you have in your face around and not a cure for acne, but... we really weren't sure...

The hell?

Guts shoooooow! (Doo good?)

Monday of the long-weekend was Sports Day in Japan and Thanksgiving in Canada. So I decided to go and support a fellow JET in his MMA fighting debut. I made the drive out alone and managed to not get lost (yippie!). Made my way towards the 八戸市　公会堂 after Skyping with my family who were just finishing a Sunday evening Turkey dinner. It was super nice to see everyone who made it out to my parents for the meal.

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