11:11

That's the time that Ryan's plane arrived at the Salt Lake Airport.  I know, that's kind of a pointless thing to blog, but it's a cool time to FINALLY arrive where you should be.  Go Ryan!  (Since he was the one who was really controlling the time his plane would arrive.)

TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today Ryan comes back to Utah!  Somebody (probably me) is really excited about that.

Happy Birthday!

Today is Ryan's birthday.  He's 26, that's old.  Okay, not actually old, but since he'll always be older than me, I can always tell him he's old.  It's not just any birthday though, today is his golden birthday.  I learned about golden birthdays from my former roommate Lene.  A golden birthday means that you turn the age of the day of the month.  For example: Today Ryan turns 26 on the 26th of August.

Happy Birthday Ryan!  I hope it's the best day ever!  I love you!!!  If I could give you anything, you would be in Utah, but I can't give you anything, so maybe next week.

Anniversary

For our one year anniversary, we had a lot of fun.  We took our time in the morning (Ryan conveniently didn't need to work.).  Then we took the bus downtown.  Found a mediteranean place and ate falafel for lunch, went to Centre Island, rented a quadricycle (2-seater, but side-by-side, more romantic in our opinion).

We saw these things.  (Note:  All pictures came off of a phone, so not the best quality.)

That stuff was on the bike.  Then we went swimming in Lake Ontario.  That's what Ryan had really really wanted to do all summer and so we did.  They've really cleaned up the lake since the last time I got in.  Last time I got in there was a sign that said, "Swim at own risk.  Lake has salmonilla."  They had really cleaned up everything and there was even a nice beach.  I guess the salmonilla thing was really about 5 years ago though.

After swimming we left the island, taking these pictures on our way off.  (Again, pictures from phone.)

As we left the sun was beginning to set, but wasn't actually set yet.  We decided that we would eat dinner in the CN tower.  They have a rotating restaurant.  It's super expensive, but we were going up in the tower anyway and when you get dinner you don't have to pay to go in the tower.  There was some rationalizationing done, but it was worth it.  (For anyone who doesn't know, the CN Tower is the super tall tower in the picture above.  It's actually built to be a tall radio tower (? is that what they call it), but along the way of building it, someone decided it should be a tourist attraction, and so that's what it is.  It was the tallest building in the world until 2007 when Dubai built what is now the tallest building in the world.  It's comparable to the Space Needle, but it's taller.)

Our food looked super fancy, so we took pictures of it.

In case you can't tell, this is chicken with vegetables.

Eggplant, tomato, asparagus, and rice.

Ryan announced to the waiter that it was our anniversary, so they gave us a free dessert.

Someone is really good at writing in chocolate syrup.  You can't tell from this picture, but underneath the chocolate pretzel (yes that is what it is) is a chocolate tower.  Ryan ate half the fruit and told me I got to eat the rest.  I told him he was wrong and so he ate half of the chocolate and liked it too.  I got proof.

This is Ryan eating chocolate.  He really did like it.  When we started dinner the sun was up, when it ended it was down.  That was especially cool since we were high up in a tower in a rotating room surrounded by windows.

After we ate dinner, we walked around all the parts of the tower.  There's a glass floor that shows all the way to the ground.  It made Ryan kind of nervous, I was amused.  We ended in the gift shop where I bought an overpriced onesie that was something like what I had been looking for all summer.  We went home and thought it was pretty much the perfect anniversary!

Utah

This Friday I go back to Utah.  I can't lie, but I'm really really excited.  (I'm also grateful that we've had the opportunity to live here this summer.  We've learned a lot.)  But mostly, I'm really really excited to go back to Utah and see my parents and my brothers and sisters (in-laws included) and Seiichi and Keitatsu and Amy and Noel.  Probably especially to see my mom and Seiichi and Noel though.  (Seiichi because I've never seen him and Noel because she looks so different in pictures from when we left just a few months ago!)  

I'm not so excited about leaving Ryan here for longer than I'll be here though.  In some ways it will be good because then I won't ditch him to hang out with my mom (which is a regular habit of mine, you could ask him).  It will be good for him to have all the time of all the days to finish his internship though, instead of feeling like he should come home and hang out with me sometimes.  Ryan comes home on the 31st, so it's not really that long.  Only about a week and a half.  For most of that I'll be at my parents' house and then school will start, so I'll be distracted.  I hope Ryan will be equally distracted.

That is all.  Oh, except being in Utah means that I get to make a doctors appointment and finally find out what this baby is, which really isn't that big of a deal, but I really want to know.  I keep dreaming about having this baby and not knowing the gender and in some dreams I think it's a girl and then it's a boy, in others I think it's a boy and then it's a girl.  Pretty much, it's driving me crazy.  That really is all!  :)

One-year Anniversary!!!!!!!

Melissa wrote this song for our anniversary (to the tune of The William Tell Overture, a.k.a. The Lone Ranger Theme):

Happy Anniversary!
It's our anniversary!
First-year anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!

Happy happy happy happy happy Anniversary!
Happy happy happy happy happy Anniversary!


Happy Anniversary!
It's our anniversary!
First-year anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!

Right now...

I find myself wishing I was here with this person hanging my head over a cliff making my mom nervous.  I don't know why.

Halfway

Today we are halfway through our pregnancy (assuming the baby is born on its due date of course).  Just thought that was significant enough to mention.  That is all.

Seiichi

He looks like this.

Seiichi Halim

Yay!  I have a new nephew.  Born today at 1:30 p.m.  Weighing 7 lbs and measuring 18 inches long.  If I had a picture it would go here.  Congratulations Matt, Kyoko, and Keitatsu!