IHOP

Sorry for the complete lack of up date in the past 2 weeks, mainly it was due to the lack of me being home. For the past 2 weeks we have all been sick (well for the last 3 if you coun't my first bout) and when I say all I mean all, Isabel and Yuki included. So Matthew has dubed us IHOP, International House of Plague.

Any ways to reacap what has been going on, let me start from when Yuki got here. Within the first few days she was here Laura and I took her ice skating as well as sledding. The next week was our big week. On Monday we visited great lakes crossing (a massive Michigan mall) and sh oped till we dropped. Later that night we left for Chicago and had a blast. We froze, discovered that you really can cram a huge van into a tiny parking garage and that all intercoms whether it be in the elevator or parking garage have a personalty (they are all too chipper for me). We became all to familiar with that voice when with in the first 5 minutes of us arriving in Chicago we lost my mom in the parking garage. we where all waiting next to the elevator listing to the intercom say (in a very expensive voice) "welcome! you are on the 4th floor, if you wish to visit our main lobby please push the down arrow next to the elevator..." and it went on and on. finally after searching for a while a hotel attendant found us and told us where she was. Well our trip to Chicago was great. On Friday we again packed up and went to Niagara Falls on the American side. We took Laura's Tomtom GPS System and let me tell ya, that thing is soooo cool! and yes once in our trip it did say "please make a U turn at next available location" any one who has watched the pixar film "over the hedge" will understand why i find that so funny. Any ways, the falls are absolutely beautiful in the winter and there is no one there so we pretty much had the place to our selves. We got home Saturday night and vegged out for the next few days. I started training for my Job on Monday and finished today (Friday) arggg sitting in a class room everyday for 8 hours is tough let me tell you. Well Yuki left on Tuesday and it was a second tearful good bye for the two of us. At least will still be in touch, I miss her already. Well next week is my first official week of work. I will still be doing in-store training that week but at least it's at my store and not Detroit. I had no idea that when i took this job that it would be so involved or this hard. Oh well, I'm just happy i have one. well I've bored you enough. take care!

Yuki is here!

Hey every one! yesterday was really hetic, when i got home from school i had planned on rushing out to the air port to get Yuki, who was my host sister when i was in Japan in the summer of '04. well go figure it started to snow, so her flight was delayed from 4:00 untill 4:49. when we got there however, the flight had been changed to 5:30 so no big deal, we all went over to the starbucks and had coffee and tea. we had met up with Laura at the air port and we where all having a good time. so 5:30 rolled around and they pushed the flight back yet again. finaly we left and had some dinner across the street. unfortuantly the snow had gotten terrible and Laura had to leave so she could make it to her aunts house (she has a interview today with UofM, Go You!) Finaly Yuki's plane got in at 7-11 (the time not the store, Matt). We had to wait an additional 30 miniunts for her luggage to actualy get in then it was the slipperly ride home. with three very giggly girls all in the back. Every thing has been great so far. when we got Yuki home we gave her the grand tour and some soup, then it was a few hands of uno and bed. don't know what we're planning today but gotta run.

yay snow!

Hey there, i know it's not time for my weekly update, but oh well. Today there was a ton of snow! so much that i couldn't get to school, even though my school was evil enough to still hold classes. well i got back home and sat around untill Isabel got up, then around noon I took her sledding! we had so much fun. we went to the rockwood hill it was great. Isabel had never been sleding so she had lots of fun, in the end of it all we where both soaked to the bone due to how much snow we slid around in. latter we watched a few movies and Laura came over and we all played monopoly, it was fun, in the end it got to late and Laura had to go home and Isabel wanted to go to bed. so we called it a tie. We had lots of fun, yay girl time! I know Laura is suposed to talk to her horse trainer to see if we can go horse back rideing some time. well it's getting late. i have a few pictures here. enjoyl, talk at ya'll latter.