Summer is Here!

In recent news:

There was a small typhoon/rainstorm in our area, and a lot of the roads were partially flooded. It's always a treat to drive in those conditions :)

We swapped our rental car in for our failure of a K-car. Our rental car was pink and had a better stereo, so I was a little sad to see it go. The full story on the car debacle is this: We had it inspected when we bought it and paid for licensing and everything. One month later (approx 1,000 km) the engine exploded. The car service place said it needed oil, and that caused the problem....but they were the ones that inspected it, and said that it was tuned up and ready to go...so I don't understand how after 1,000 km this could have occurred. Even though our Japanese friend argued for us and tried to whittle the cost down, it was still pretty pricey because *the entire engine* had to be replaced. At least we have a more or less brand new car now. Hooray for having *awesome* luck this month...

I just re-did the powder line around the house of anti-centipede repellant earlier today. It looks a bit voodoo-y. It's a very thick, white powder line. Oh well, no mukade yet this season!!! I hope our luck improves

Bret's leg is doing better. He still has crutches, a partial cast and a wrap. When we go out it's difficult for him to walk for long periods, so we try to go places that have wheelchairs to use when you're shopping. Bret looks super cute in his wheelchair, and he cracks me up. I don't know why his misfortune is so funny to me. Let's hope everything heals up soon!

Other than that, nothing exciting is happening. On the weekends Bret and I like to have people over, watch movies, or go to the dollar sushi place in the next town over. A new place opened this year called SushiRoll and it has a lot of roll sushi (kind of american style but not really). Bret loves all the rolls, he usually orders one of each. They have eel and cucumber with seaweed flakes on the outside as a roll.

Salmon,avocado and omelet with flying fish roe on the outside, and tempura shrimp with avocado, lettuce and omelet with flying fish roe on the outside. The rolls are pretty large to accommodate all of the fillings. They also have a lot of interesting nigiri sushi, like poached salmon with cheese melted on top and basil mayonnaise. It's reaaaallllyyyyyy good. Two of my favorites are tuna and tempura scallop nigiri. Basically everything on the menu is good, and it's a nice diversion from the plain, fish-on-rice sushi we generally encounter. No california roll, philly roll, etc out here. Those are all western creations. I miss them! On a side note, we often talk about how when we come back to America, it'll be pretty difficult to want to spend money at sushi restaurants after having so much good quality stuff at dollar sushi places. Everything is going to be weird when I come back.

To finish off this riveting, keeps you on the edge of your seat post, here is a picture of some new shirts I got. There's a really cool store called gu that recently opened at the mall and it's like an even cheaper side project of Uniqlo, which I talk about all the time. I love gu because it has really cheap basics. I saw these same shirts at Zara (a store I love but can't afford to shop at) and they were triple-quadruple the price. Hehehehehehe. Who pays 45 dollars for a tank top? Sheesh.