Nike Plus, Etc.

Not much going on here, but wanted to write something just to keep the motivation on blogging. Koko is doing good and looking a little more pregnant each day, she started exercising by taking the nine flights of stairs home after work each day ( I did it once and that was enough for me). I will stick with running and logging it at nike plus. This is my last running certificate, its 1000k so 625 miles, http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus/v1/html/milestones/print_certif.html?id=418798078&region=us&language=en&locale=en_us&dateFormat=MM/DD/YY it took me about 2 years to log that many miles, but who would have thought I could have accomplished something like this 10 years ago. Most of the motivation has came from gaining the "husband pregnancy" weight with Koko (which, by the way isn't fair).

A couple weeks ago we found a Kristy Kreme shop in Kawasaki, that hasn't helped the losing weight campaign but man they sure were good. I've been asking Koko to go back but they are off limits for a little while.

On the last note, we don't know the sex of our baby yet. However, we are going to do the 4D ultrasound at the 17 week mark and the official on base ultrasound on the 25th of February at the 18 week mark so we should know something pretty soon.

This link is for a baby register I created, so all the blame is on me if I did it wrong, I really haven't put anything we need on there yet since we don't know the baby's gender. However, its there in case you would like to forward to anyone. Just search our names.

That's all for now. We should have more to write in a couple weeks.

旅のご報告 & 新年のご挨拶

新年明けましておめでとうございます。
皆様にとって幸多き一年となりますよう願っております。
今年もチーム池子をよろしくお願いいたします。

あっという間に2008年が去り、2009年が訪れてから既に1週間が経ちました。本当に時間の経つのは早いです。今年は一日一日を大事に過ごしたいものです。

プーケットではほぼ毎日ゴルフプレーとなり、年越し旅行というよりもゴルフ合宿でした。案の定、母上からは「妊婦のくせに毎日毎日ゴルフなんていい加減にしなさいよ。」とお叱りを受けましたが、仕方がありません。この機会を逃すと次はいつプレー出来るか分かりませんからね。トータルで4ラウンド、12/29（月）Blue Canyon、12/30（火）Mission Hills、12/31（水）Red Mountain、1/2（月）Loch Palmをまわりました。いずれのコースもすばらしい景色、コンディションでプレーを楽しむことが出来ました。お天気も良く、一度もスコールには遭いませんでした。暑さもタイにしてはまだ耐えられる暑さでした。
ゴルフビギナーのMとRも早くコースデビューをして欲しいものです。私の出産後までには是非一緒にまわれるようマジメに練習して下さい。お願いします。

帰国後、一日休養して仕事初めとなり、なんだか旅疲れのとれないまま仕事復帰といった感じです。お正月らしいことなど何ひとつしていませんが、夫婦２人の時間はこんな過ごし方でもいいかなと思っております。子供が生まれてから、季節の行事・習慣をウエンディ家風に自分達らしく形にして行こうと志しております。（まだタッドと話し合ってはいませんがね・・・）

では、簡単ながら旅のご報告、新年のご挨拶とさせていただきます。

Musubi and Golf

Tomorrow we are going to Atsugi to golf and Koko got motivated and made Musubi. For people that don't know, musubi is what American's would probably consider sushi, but it's just spam, rice and nori (dried seaweed). I think it comes from Hawaii, anyway its good and keeps you full to enjoy a round of golf in the cold. We have have to practice tomorrow since next week we will be playing at some very nice courses in Phuket, Red Mountain and Blue Canyon. Next Saturday we will be flying to Bangkok then Phuket, we will try to put a few pictures online if we get a connection.