Gingerbread House

We made a gingerbread house for Christmas. Yurie did most of the decorating.

Christmas Party

Last Sunday we attended a Christmas party hosted at the Clearwater Bay country club by a local Japanese family. The jumping castle was a big hit as it was two stories high with an internal slide.








Here Fumie and Yurie join in a hula dance demonstration.

Shimajiro Town

We are in Japan now and today Yurie and I made a visit to Shimajiro Town. The orange guy is Shimajiro, a little boy tiger that Yurie likes.

Suzuki Concert

Yurie has started taking violin lessons using the Suzuki Method. Part of this means that she has to take part in school concerts to help build her confidence and performance skills.

Her teacher felt that even though she had only been playing for a very short time, it would be a good idea to have her join the concert. Here she is playing her first solo. Even though she was very nervous and made a small mistake near the end, she finsihed and felt quite proud of her accomplishment.



For the group portion of the concert she had lost her nervousness, but also seems to have lost some concentration. All in all, she had fun.

China Doll

Yurie just had a show at school. She, and several classmates, dressed in Chinese dresses and sang & danced to a song called "Hello China Doll".

Mulan & Marie at disneyland

We took Yurie to Disneyland (again) as her choice of something to do for her birthday. We managed to bump into 2 of her favourite characters.

Christmas 2007

A visit to Santa's house.






Christmas day.



Fumie's sister Harue joined us for Christmas.


Fumie trying (in vain) to become a Guitar Hero.


We had Christmas dinner at Dan Ryan's.



Yurie decided to dress like a fairy princess for Christmas dinner.



How many think that this last picture looks a lot like Graeme?