great home made umeboshi by aiko-san.
nice and sour~

Tosh's wife's job

Soujin chan, Tosh's wife is working hard to keep her husband happy.
newest update from the husband...
I feel smart just looking at this chart!

Tosh says:
Now I can even predict how much work she will do in the future! Yup, that's around 300 micrograms per day in my apartment. That's probably the amount that comes in through the building plus the stuff that I bring in and shed.

he also says:
I'm thinking about staying somewhere for a week and keep measuring and then I'll have an idea about how much stuff I'm bringing into the apartment. That'll basically show how dirty I am.

What a great couple!!!

snow~

Never thought we will see snow this season...
but we did,
and we saw a lot!
powder up to waist,
we spent more time getting out of snow then actually on the snow.
it felt like I was swimming in the snow...

on the way home
snow snow snow.
needed to stop few times to get the ice / snow off from the window.

hope to come visit one more time this season~

sun is back!

fist time in long time to see the sun back in Oakland!

went to Farmer's market. always great to see many colors~

my fist blood Orange.
it was sweet.
so we got 2.

cute tulips. but did not buy them.
extra few dollar goes to more food!!!

found this cute alley in Tamescal.

looks like more stores are opening

cute

with the food we got today.
cocked rice with yogurt, turmeric, onion, chick peas
tuna with ginger sauce
broccoli and beets salad!

Wonderful eat @ skook~

visitor from LA! we went to skool for fun time.

started off with taco.

oyster and bubble

crab ball

ceviche

pork slider

Uni flan!!!!!

squid ink pasta!

panna cotta

blue cheese cake.
amazing combination with jyunmaki ginjyo~

never ever fail. soooo good!
thanks skool~!

happy birthday backy san!

it was my beautiful friend, backy san's birthday!
we spent good weekend in napa.
started with Mediterranean at small world restaurant.
was gooood~

checked in at hotel

and went off to wine tasting

walking distance from the wine tasting place, we went to Allegria for birthday dinner

Happy birthday~ ♬ (#1)

after dinner, we hit pool at the hotel.
this is us walking through hotel lobby with robe!

at night, backy san did facial in hotel room.
my face clean than ever!

next morning, starts with another candle time. (#2)

at breakfast (#3)

in the car (#4)

drove almost 2 hours from napa to Wilbur spa.
it's hot spring time!
open the gate by hand, and drive up for another 5 miles or so
then we are here.
on the left, it's hot spring.
water was pretty green.
i should say natural as it can get!?

after spending good long hours in hot spring, we went back to calistoga for another birthday dinner!
yey~

fun time, good food and drinks.

candle #5. till next year...
Happy birthday!

happy wedding

to celebrate tosh's marriage, we had pizza at his place!

tosh showed us his new crazy exercise machine...

here is matt trying

me trying...

Happy wedding Tosh!
make your soujinchan happy forever!
(his new wife - cleaning robot...)

and this is how he judge her.
how much dust she gets everyday...
you! judger!

also, thanks for letting us borrow your scooter.
this is how mits almost killed her self in hi-heel...

and akyo going slower than walking pace at work...