When my kids were young they enjoyed eating the packaged ramen noodles that we could get for pennies in the grocery store. This evening Wakana took me to a ramen restaurant where she ate ramen and I had Chinese dumplings and rice.

This morning we finished the job of placing the big pavers along the front of the house. It looks pretty good if I do say so. Gordon says he will power wash and apply one coat of paint to the place while we are in Japan. Right now the color of the walls varies from white to blue with some rather shocking grafitti on the end wall.

We are getting pretty excited about the trip to Japan. I get to meet the parents and she gets to visit home and see family and friends.