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Back from Canada #3
Pictures from Canada #3 
uh-oh…
$1000 glasses…
Back from Canada #2
Pictures from Canada #2
Back from Canada #1
Pictures from Canada #1
Friends from Japan
Sorry about the delay in posting…
oh wait. I update the site like 10 times a week. are you guys crazy!?!?! just can’t get enough of us? that’s what I thought.
In case you didn’t remember, I forgot my flash card reader, so I have no way of getting my pictures off my camera until I am somewhere with a reader. Hence the delay between posting and between events and pictures (look for a great visit from some good friends in a few days!)
In the meantime, Kiko, Noa and I were really lucky to have some good friends from Kagawa come to Canada to visit. Ishikawa-sensei (my supervisor) and his family came to Toronto to visit. We got some Toronto, Niagara and Ottawa action in. The tri-fecta of tourism. A big thanks to Tray, Thomas, Chris, Franz and Shane for all your help.
Speaking of Shane… here is a picture.
(Just so you know, and I’m not making this up, the previous picture in the series shows Noa poking his own eye out.)
Here are some pictures from Ishikawa-sensei’s family trip to Canada.
We took them to Asian Legend (the best Chinese food in Toronto!) with Thomas, Tracy, and Shane, as well as a trip to Brampton to see Mom and the dogs.
As I mentioned, we got most of the major tourism points down. Some Ottawa,
some Toronto, some Niagara, and a whole bunch of excitement at Tracy’s in Hamilton.
Thank you everyone for your help, and a big thanks to the Ishikawa family for coming all the way to Canada!
Some nice pictures…
These are a few of my favourite Noa pictures that haven’t made it in to our earlier posts.
The first is of my sister Tray, Noa and myself.
The other is of Noa in front of a nice looking (plum? cherry blossom?) tree. Kiko is convinced she took the picture, but I believe it might actually be me…
That is all.
Back to Japan
To think that a month has passed! Crazy. I can’t believe that it is alreday time to head back to Japan. Noa has gotten bigger, decided that he only wants to sleep when his Mom rocks him to sleep, we saw a few good friends, spent a lot of time with family and had a great time.
To the good friends that we didn’t see, or the ones we didn’t see enough of, SORRY! 
I would like to blame Noa (it is afterall his fault) but apparently everything is my fault.
I was also super surprised at the amount of things I didn’t get done. I didn’t read any books. I didn’t redo the website. I didn’t see nearly half the people I wanted too… what did we do? We introduced Noa to his Canadian family and I renewed my passport…
At any rate, here are a few more pictures of the good times in Canada. The rest will come once I get back to Japan where my usb cable is waiting…
Wish us luck… its going to be a crazy flight.
Noa and Goggy hanging out. (Goggy is Noa’s great great grandmother (曾曾お婆さん) … that’s 5 generations folks.
Next we have Noa’s favourite person, Tracy. (Note the connection between his favourite person and who is feeding him?)
Introducing Baby Awesome (Thank Scotty and Stacey for the clothes, Brian for the name!)
Noa just hanging out reading his books…
and finally Noa and partaking in his favourite activity…. stripping.
See you when we are settled back in Japan!
Love,
David & Kiko 
Noa’s family in Canada
Sorry for the lengthy time in between updates. I know you were all excited about the "right from the airplane" and "automatic timed" updates, but now it’s time for a Canada-update…
Kiko and Noa have decided that they prefer Japan time, and have only recently started getting over their jet lag. I am not sure Noa realizes he is in Canada, but he seems to enjoy the dog’s company. Chloe (maybe some of you don’t know Chloe… I’ll get some pictures up) often tries to include Noa in her games and looks a little hurt when he doesn’t participate.
Anyways, things here are going well. We haven’t really seen all of our friends yet (which is a priority!). Chris and Lianne mde it up to Brampton which was very sweet, and we also got to spend some quality time with Trevor. Still would like to see you all, so give me a call in Brampton and get your asses over here. If not I will try and make some Toronto trips starting next week… I am rambling. (On a side note, did you know that every time I swear in a post it prevents many people from visiting the webpage because those crazy censor-internet-blockers in Japan (and elsewhere) block the website… crazy!)
Where was I? Oh yeah… since Noa hasn’t gotten a chance to see many of our friends, we have concentrated on family. My family is absolutely thrilled (I think!) to meet Noa and Noa loves them. Here are a few pictures of Noa meeting his Canadian family. (I forgot the usb-wire to hook up our camera to my labtop!!! Fortunately we went to Tracy’s house where we were able to get a few pictures up. Thank you Tracy 
Tracy also has a kickass tablet pc which you can see here.)
Noa also got a chance to meet his aunts and uncles…
… and his good friend Livvy.
More to come…