Nanny and Grampy's gifts to the kids

Christmas 2008

We got an Xbox for Christmas. Can anybody guess what game we got with it. Okay for the non technical minds out there it's Guitar Hero(rock band). Its a lot of fun. Thanks Santa.

We left Santa some milk and cookies out and this is what we found in the morning. I hear Rudolph isn't the only one with a red nose.

Our fancy couch set. I was really hoping for furniture for Christmas.

Our tree.

Roy & Emma

On my way home from work I finnally stopped in at Mikes place to see my neice. She sure is cute.

Some Pics

Christmas Gangsters!

Ryan all dressed up to go to a dance at his school.

Mark all ready for his Christmas concert.

Ryan, Mark and Clara in Sean's sparkly clean room.

Jeesh Ryan, you should eat something, you're all bones!

Tiny Little Hands

Mark's Grade 5 class sang Tiny Little Hands and Silent Night. We couldn't see him for the second song, he was behind a tall girl. I have to say it was well organized, it started on time and was just under an hour.

Disney In Tokyo

One thing we did do in Tokyo was go to Disneyland. If you enjoy long lines and big crowds go to the Disneyland in Tokyo. We went on 3 rides. 2 hour wait for each ride. They did have a parade(that I missed). Thats a long story in itself. Everybody else got to see it.

Close up they are all photos of people smiling. It was pretty cool.

Comments on Japan

I have a lot more to show but we are getting ready to get on the plane. I am unsure when we will have internet again. I hope not too long. A guy gets used to having it around. The internet connection in Japan is super fast. To load all the photos to the blog only take as long as the click. You can watch a U tube video with out it stopping. We also went to Disneyland Tokyo. It rained most the day. The hotel is the best one we ever stayed. The mirror was heated so you can shave after a shower. The toilets in Japan are amazing. The beer is really good (Terry you'll have to come to Japan to try the beer). Anyways, sayonara for now......Hopefully, Roy and Carol's excellent adventure will be continued in Canada............Cheers!!!!!!!!! :)

Trip To Mt Fuji

One of our day trips was to Mt Fuji. We started off on a bus trip. The guy below was our guide. He had all these hand drawn maps. He was quite interesting. He talked about what we are going to do on the trip. He pulled out graphs on how wages work. Suicide rates in Japan and heaps more usless facts and stories about Japan. I loved all his stories. The trip as a whole was quite disappointing. It was very cloudy and we didn't see alot. With that said just looking at the country side was good and we all enjoyed getting out of the city.

This was on the way up the mountain. We made what our guide called an emergency stop. Good thing we did. This is all we saw of the peak of the mountain. You had to be quick. Within 30 seconds of getting off the bus the peak was gone.

Our trip went like this.......A 2 hour bus ride to the base of the mountain. We then stopped at a visiter center. We then drove up the mountain to 5000 m above sea level. We stayed there for 30 mins. We then drove back to a hotel by the visitor center and had lunch. Then took the bus to a lake and took a half hour ferry ride (We were suppose to see the mountain in the back drop). After that we took a cable car to a peak and thats were I got the photos below. After the cable car the bus took us to the train station and we took the bullet train back to Tokyo.

A cool building on top of cable car ride.

This is a temple at the end of our ferry ride.

Me and the kids on the ferry with Mt Fuji in the back ground. (behind all the clouds)

Which way is Toyko????

Having what was called a triditional Japanese lunch.

Mark loved the chop sticks. All he ate was the rice. For some reason Carol kept calling chopsticks, pork chops....Then she had me calling them that.

This was the menu.

And this was the food.

There was a temple on the mauntain and this was on the ceiling.

The map at the visitor center

Me on the mountain. I was trying for crouching tiger stance......All I got was a prancing princess look.

Ryan on the emergency stop with the mountain in the back drop.....Ohh, isn't it pretty.

At the visitor center. In the background is were Mt Fuji is suppose to be.

Mark on the bullet train enjoying some Coke.

The bullet train. There are some that go 300 Km/Hr. When they come into the station you have to stay behind the yellow line on the floor or you get yelled at over the loud speaker in Japanese and the tour guide gets pissed of at you for being so stupid. LOL....I just wanted a good photo.

Eating in Japan

This is the alley we found.

We decieded it would be fun to eat out. Ryan and I found a little back alley that had the coolest little resteraunts. They were very narrow and they cooked on a little wood BBQ in front of you. We ate in the one below and this was the guy that talked us in the restaraunt.


I wish I was better at planning what photo goes where to tell the story. Anyways, This is what Carol ordered. It was called fried noodle sauce. The presentation was better but we already dug in before I remembered to take the photo.

This was the view from the window. We ate in a small upstairs room. Just big enough for 4 tables. Look how narrowthe restaurant is.

So we got the menu. I couldn't deciede what to eat. It all looked so good.

Well, after much confussion they brought up menus with photos. There was a lot to chose from. Horse meat anyone????

Us in the upstairs. There was a very friendy couple beside us that took our photo.

This is what I picked from the menu. When I asked what kind of meat it was I was told chicken and pork. My next should have been what part of the pig and chicken did it come from. On the plate there is chicken skin and stomach with some chicken balls. Pork meat, pork liver and mystery meat. There was also some green peppers but they got eaten. Again I took the photo after we dug in.

The resteraunt was great. The beer is really good. You are allowed to smoke in the restaurants but you cannot smoke in the streets. Also, as we were leaving and the female servers were hitting on Ryan and Mark. OOOHHHH your soooo big is what they said to Ryan. OOOOHHHH your soooo handsome. You could be movie star is what they said to Mark. It was very funny.

Japan Stopover

As everybody probably know we are heading back to Canada. One the way home we decided to have a few day layover in Japan. Just some of the things we saw on our fisrt day. We are now getting ready to head to Mt. Fuji. Photos to come. This is a building we can see from our hotel.


The view from our room

Give love a chance.....man......Peace out

A couple of pics of our walk downtown. I'll post some more later.