Tueller's reunion

There were 17 adults, and 12 children, gathered at Aunt Anna's place on Friday evening. We had Cafe Rio catering and nice desert. Thank you for organizing a fun time!






Off course, Jacob was the big brother to entertain younger ones.

August 21, Saturday

We (or I) decided that we want to go out and do fun stuff at least every other week when school starts for David. Since we got a new camera, lot of places became fun to visit.
So yesterday, David took me to the Bridal fall.






Instead of going to the Seven Peaks, in which we really wanted, we went to one of our good friend's birthday party and had water balloon fight and karaoke.

Motivation

Yes, there was a HUGE amount of mold, black and white, stacked in our humidifier. This was a big motivation to seriously clean our room in the basement. This was probably the biggest reason why I was getting allergy reaction all this years (I know, almost 2 years!) I lived here in Utah.
So I spent hours cleaning and moving things around. Finally it became as I liked.



Our theme colors became happy yellow, relaxing brown and success gold.





Do you see the two puppets? My friend (Bishop's son) used those puppets (a pig and a rabbit) to tell our story; from how we started to date to getting married in our reception in Japan.



One motivation of David for coming back to States was that he could partake big portion of everything. So, he cooked delicious spaghetti, in which we are still eating.





Lastly our biggest motivation to come back was to see Jack Johnson's concert in SLC.



David and I were dressed up with cute Japanese outfit. Especially his shirt is from Okinawa, the beautiful island like Hawaii.



After the concert, we visited Aunt Rachael at midnight to get her old TV for mom.



It was heavy and barely fit in the car.


Here are some pictures from Japan.



My grandma's house. We took a couscous package from Utah. That was their first time trying Arabic food.



My grandma's older sister. She is 89 years old.



A big seven eleven.



When we went to Tokyo temple, we met 2 missionaries that I taught over a year ago!



A Gundam cafe had people lining up outside.



My cousins treated us with nice Vietnamese food in Tokyo.



Beers (sometimes tobacco) in a vending machine. You see this everywhere in Japan.



A random company.

Bye-bye Japan

Finally and sadly our 2-month vacation ended. Mount Fuji celebrated our departure to States by sticking out his head from cloud.




Although our vacation in Japan was over, I still need to put a lot more pictures on the blog to remember what we did. So please bare with me for late update.



On June 11th, after visiting my grandpa's grave, my grandma treated us with nice sushi. If you go to a cheap sushi restaurant, you see sushi on conveyor-belt and you get whatever you want.
However, if you go to a nice one, it comes like the one in the picture and a chef makes it right in front of you. That is how you know if a person is taking you to a cheap restaurant or not.









Then, we departed for a family reunion in Tokyo.




Tokyo is the most populated metropolitan area in the world, says David quoting from wikipedia.



This is a view from fifty-second floor. No wonder Tokyo is busy.



Family reunion was held at a bar called 彩(aya).



Instead of drinking alcohol, David and I drank a lot of juice and soda; it was a free drink dinner. The waiter ended up bringing a jar of coke, in which David finished it all by himself.



My cute cousins.



Ikemen(handsome): my husband, cousins, a step-cousin, and a brother.

Yukata debut

My brother Takuma, his girlfriend, David and I went to see 30 thousand fire works in Okazaki. The fire works lasted for exactly 2 hours and there were quite unique shapes.



I noticed people in the States had fire works when they celebrated something, but people in Japan just had fire-work festivals in order to enjoy the fire works.
Wearing yukata is one of the things to raise our excitement for summer nights.

Peanut gallery

Today, my mother had a potluck lunch at our place. David faced 10 mid-age women and was asked a bunch of questions. To him, they might have been like a peanut gallery, but to them, he was a special guest that they wanted to be friends with. Surprisingly, David answered most of the questions in Japanese without my translation. In addition, they loved David's guacamole.

Afterwords, I visited one of my friends and while I received a massage, David played video games. We went to a nice cafe and ate shaved ice. David likes the regular strawberry flavor, so brown sugar or black honey were too fancy for him. The last 2 times we visited nice cafes, we ordered the black honey flavor since they were too fancy to have a regular strawberry flavor.



I can't believe that we are leaving in 4 days!

Visiting President Baird and his family

Today, we visited President Baird and his family. He is the mission president for the Nagoya mission and from the same ward in Provo. It has been great fun hanging out with his daughters as well.

My mother gave a set of yukatas, traditional-summer-Japanese costumes, which they loved.
My father also had a good time eating American food with them.

When we came back, David and I presented our gift to my parents, thanking them for all they do for us. Yes, we bought a TV and blu-ray player for them. They were astonished, and glad for such unexpected gift.