Today is Thursday, June 8th 2004. It is Savanna’s Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SAVANNA!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!
So I have been thinking for a long while about what to put on my website for your birthday. My Nana’s (Pretty Birthday Cake), Becky’s (Pictures of LLAMAS), David’s (Spiderman of course) were easy to think up. But you, I am still having trouble with. So I went and bought you a gift today, that seemed to make my mind feel better about your birthday. You should be excited. You have gifts coming to you from Japan (Which is REAL foreign country - remember??? LOL)! That should make you happy, even though you are at work. Noel’s birthday is next Friday, and do you know what else is next Friday? Our second midterm. Noel is not too happy about this. But if you look on the bright side, the midterm will be over, and then he can relax over the weekend and have a great birthday.
So, I will list a few updates as to what I have been up to, perhaps a picture or two, and then if you keep scrolling down, it will Savanna’s birthday-on-Stephanie’s-Website-Gift (Not to be confused with the REAL birthday gift coming later!)
Well, there is no better place to start than today I suppose. Today I woke up at 9:00am and had 5 minutes to get dressed and get by butt to class, as class begins at 9:10… No shower was taken, I was smelly and sleepy and not in the mood for school. Then it was over, and I went straight BACK TO BED, I mean, where else was there possibly to go? A mid-day nap is my heaven. It is the best experience in the whole world. And the best part? When you wake up in the morning with that tired-don’t-want-to-ever-leave-this-soft-as-a-cloud-bed-even-if-my-house-was-on-fire feeling, you get to tell yourself that in only a matter of hours, you will be back in your pajamas, back under the covers, and laying your head down on your soft pillow. In fact, just to make myself believe in my afternoon nap a little more, when I crawl out of bed, I leave the bed with the covers pulled open, just so that when I get to return back to my room, my bed is waiting there for me. He calls for me, and all I have to do is sqeeze myself right back in the hole, only to continue where I left off, before I was so rudely awakened by the sound of that wretched alarm, and that whole school problem…
Moving on… After my nap, and of course Noel’s nap as well, we headed out to Bell Road. Those of you who know me can kind of think of Bell road as an equivalent to Eureka Road in Southgate, or even to Michigan Ave in Dearborn. It contains loads of shops, including: grocery stores, dollar stores, department stores, clothing stores, electronic stores, camera stores, along with a ton of other little fun shops. It also contains a wide variety of resturants, big and little, as well as ice cream shops, burger places, and Denny’s-ish places. When all the stores had closed, and after Noel and I had eaten, we rode home with our baskets on our bikes full, feeling very happy indeed.
And now I am here. I apologize for the lack of… everything on the website during the past couple of weeks. You expect a fun filled website full of stories and pictures and movies, and this past week I have given you McDonalds, pictures I didn’t take, of countries the states I have gone to (not so interesting, huh?) and information about people at home, instead of about Japan. (I am not saying that my dad’s new harley and David’s birthday are not important, I am just pointing out that nothing has been about “Japan”) I will change this shortly. Tomorrow, we have our class field trip to Kyoto, where we will visit some intersting sites, even one called “Monkey Mountain”, where there are supposedly monkeys walking around all over the place. I will post the pictures and stories shortly after we return.
Well that is it for now, I will post a few pictures, and of course explain each of them above the picture. Then I will post Savanna’s birthday suprise at the bottom. ENJOY!
This is a dessert we got at a resturant called “Grills” that we ate at. I want you to look at the detail in the plate. DO YOU SEE THE HEARTS??? It was a very fancy-pansy dessert if you ask me.
This is Noel and Yoshi outside of Shogetsu, a Japanese resturant Yoshi took us too. It is famous for it’s Japanese style pizza, which Yoshi informed us before we left was: “Like American pizza, but NOT”. You will see what he means later on…
This is the cooks cooking on the grills, they were fun to watch!
Here is a pic of Noel and I at the table.
This is how the food arrived at our table, (our table had it’s own grill on it, as the picture shows). The waitress placed the “pizza’s” down, and then she poured mayonaise over each of them. Yes, I did say mayonaise. Then, AFTER the mayo she put on this brown sauce, as you see in the picture.
So now you want to know about the pizza huh? Well let me paint you a picture, and you can come to own conclusion on how it might have tasted. Okay, so you start off by cutting up a cabbage, for numbers, let’s just say you have half a cabbage. Then you have 2 potatoes, put that on the grill and let then cook. You are going to need to get out the ginger, because you need at about three pinches of that as well. I am assuming something else had to have been added to the pizza to make it all stick together, and since I am a terrible cook, and an even worse food-guesser, just think of something like pancake mix, you know, it thickens upon heating, and the goo all of the sudden magically sticks together, well it kind of was like that, in a weird way. So now you have your pizza in a “pizza” shape, it looks like a big cabbage pancake (sound good yet? Didn’t think so. Unless you are a cabbage freak or something). Now the cooks are done, and the pancakes, I mean pizza’s, are brought to your table and yes, you guessed it, BRING ON THE MAYO. It was the nastiest sight ever, she comes over to our table with a big jug of mayo, dips in a paintbrush (I am NOT kidding), and literally paints on the mayo. the last step, of course, is the brown goo, which tastes like nothing you have had in your life. Now I done describing the pizza and you can guess what it must have tasted like. Personally, I won’t call it great, or even good, or really even pizza. But, when you are taken to a restuarant by a Japanese person, you trust them to order you the best thing, and for Yoshi, he ordered our pizza’s just like his. This way we get the “real” experience of it, instead of just ordering something that we are familiar with. Honestly, it wasn’t the worst taste in world, just cabbage, mayo, and brown goo, but I don’t think I will eat it again. All of you at home, the next time you bring home a mouthwatering pizza from Little Ceasers, or wherever you like, think of me when you take that first bite, and ask yourself what is better, cabbage and mayo, or cheese and pepperoni. I think we all know the answer to this, that is of course, unless you are a bunny.
This next picture deserves to be framed, and it will be soon. You are asking yourself, “What on earth is on Noel’s back?”, Well it’s not a time machine, a halloween costume, or a floatation device, as you may have guessed. This is his soft-foam mattress pad. the beds here feel like you are sleeping on a rock, more or less. I find my bed very comfortable, but it did take a little to adjust to, that’s for sure. But poor boney Noel was NOT doing too well on his bed, so we found a cheap, softer than a cloud mattress cover, and Noel bought it on the spot. Well, “On the spot” meant with our bikes. So now we had to figure out a good solution to get this huge mattress home, riding our bikes. I don’t think I need to explain how we managed this…
Well, just taking a picture was not enough at all. Just to make sure we rememberd how funny Noel looked with the bed-foam thing on his back, we decided we needed to make a movie.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAVANNA!!! I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY!!! HAVE FUN!!!
I Love the My Little Ponies picture!! Yah!! I was all excited to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see ‘em. And I said (out loud, at work) “Yah Ponies!!”