The Family Voyage Journal

The day after the long flight, we decided to stay low key today. My younger sister Nami-chan came to check on us and help my mom. My mom participates in a senior wellness activity program which is provided by the City. She goes every Wednesday, mingling with other seniors and doing all sorts of physical and brain training activities for a couple of hours. My younger sister showed it to me how to prepare for this weekly trip so that I can assist my mom from next week. After my mom left, Nami-chan changed to Kimono to go to her Kimono-Dressing School. She got some certificates already and ultimately she hopes to dress foreigners in Kimono while she is providing Tour Guide Service. She dressed by herself very nicely, which was not easy. I still have difficulty putting on a kimono all by myself. I hope I can learn from her once I lose weight to be able to put on my current kimono (right now, I am too fat…)

This year, only Cecilia and I will be heading off to Japan. As a great start, I left my iPhone in our car at the airport. I did not realize this until we passed the security checkpoint. I realized how heavily we were depending on the phone these days, I could not even tell the time. I bought a watch at the duty free shop and me and Cecilia had some snacks at the cafe, thinking how we were going to survive without a phone. Well, perhaps I can rent the phone once I get to the airport, oh we should go to the bathroom before heading off to the gate. While we were in the bathroom, suddenly, I realized the airport was paging me!!! AHHHH, we went back to the security checkpoint and discovered Brian was paging me 20,000 times (well, sort of). Poor Brian, he went back to my car after he sent us off at the airport and he discovered my phone, so he came back to the security checkpoint and kept paging me since then. That was over 1 hour, patiently waiting for me to notice the paging. We were able to unite and I got my phone back safely, apologizing Brian and rushed back to clear the security and we made it to the gate on time.

Since Emi and Nicholas has gone to their Scouting America High Adventure Philmont Trek this summer, Brian decided to visit his parents in Colorado with Cecilia.