ChanomiTalk

My heart will always be in San Francisco. Beautiful city, two great sports teams, and tons of things to do there. However, I often like to tell people, “great place to visit but I couldn’t live there.” That city’s pace of life isn’t for me. And like most major cities some areas are a little slummy. Maybe you are wondering why I am fond of San Francisco? Well, both of my parents were born and raised there. All of my extended family lives there. In particular, my cousins Erik, Kako, and my Uncle Wille. I miss those guys.

My younger sister came to visit last weekend. On Saturday I picked her up from the airport, and we went to Annapolis, the capital of Maryland. There we walked around the historic part of Annapolis. It rained on us, and we had to go into a drug store to buy a poncho for the baby so she wouldn’t get wet. We grabbed a bite to eat at a local restaurant. Maryland is famous for its crab so we ordered a crab dip for my sister to try. It was delicious. When we were done with dinner we went home because my sister was really tired from her trip. On Sunday we headed out to Washington D.C. to watch a Chinese musical. The show is called Shen Yun, and it comes to town every year. The show tells the story of Chinese history going back thousands of years. The choreography was fantastic, and the costumes were beautiful.  I wished they would have allowed us to take pictures with the cast, but that’s ok. My sister and I still really enjoyed the musical. After the show we stopped by the Cherry Blossom festival. The cherry blossoms bloomed a little early this year due to the warm weather we’ve been having, but we still managed to catch some trees with their flowers on them. We also walked by a flower garden which had very colorful flowers. We took a couple of pictures then we grabbed some hot dogs and headed back home. On Monday we went up to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. We spent most of our day there just walking around browsing the stores. I bought an outfit for the baby and my sister bought a couple of souvenirs to take back to Texas. I invited her to dinner at a sushi restaurant on the harbor. We ate some tako, tempura, soba, and two different types of sushi rolls. The food was good, but I don’t really think my sister liked that they put ikura (roe) atop the sushi rolls. My sister went home on Tuesday but not before we grabbed some lunch at an Afghani kabob place. She didn’t want to eat Afghani food at first. However, once she tried the steak kabobs she really liked it. I was sad to say goodbye but am glad she came to visit.

土曜日の夕方、アラモアナセンターを、歩きました。
大勢の人が、子供たちのフラダンスを楽しんでいました。

どようびの　ゆうがた、アラモアナセンターを　あるきました。
おおぜいの　ひとが、こどもたちのフラダンスを　たのしんでいました。

About two weeks ago, I was assigned to write a blog about my favorite fruit. I wrote and uploaded the blog but something went wrong and the blog was never posted onto the site for some reason. So here is my second blog on the same topic.

Today, I am going to talk about my favorite fruit which is the apple, just the typical red one to be specific. Sometimes, when i’m hungry, I will go and get and apple because it has a nice sweet and sour taste, and maybe i’ll get some peanut butter with it for a dip, and that tastes pretty good too. The reason why I like red apples more than green apples or granny apples or whatever you call them is because I usually crave sweeter tastes than sour ones, but I know some people that like green apples way better. My favorite thing that i like to eat my apples is peanut butter because it tastes really good with the sweet taste that the apple provides, if you haven’t yet, try it, it’s really good. Well anyway, that was my short blog about apples and I hoped you enjoyed it, goodbye!

ゆかりちゃんの結婚式2次会の
ビンゴでいただいたディズニーリゾートの一日無料券。
ついに使わせていただきました！

強風で寒いし、水のショーも中止になってしまったけど、すごーく楽しかったです。
海底20000マイルもストームライダーもアクアトピアも夢中になって乗ってました。
夢の世界やった～。また行こう！ね！

ジーニー＆ダッフィー（＾▽＾）びっくり！花で造られているのです！

I just got back to Florida from 5 weeks of training in California. Being in the Coast Guard and telling people you’re going to California, they automatically assume it’s on the beach, where it is warm and beautiful. Not this training center, it is in a town called Petaluma, Northern California, between San Francisco and Santa Rosa, and far inland and up the mountains. The temperature in March was low 40’s and it rained almost every day. The training center is also on protected wildlife land, so you will see deer and turkeys daily. Somehow these animals know you cannot harm them, and they have no problem walking right up to you or making cars stop for them.