2 posts tagged “japan”

    I have had such a fun, fun, fun weekend!  It started right after work on Friday.  I went to spend the night at my parents house and we watched the movie "The Bucket List" together. (My mom, dad and I)  It really was a good movie.  I think my parents enjoyed it more since they are "older".  They are not getting ready to kick the bucket yet though thank goodness!  I hope not anyways!  O___o I got to sleep with my dogs Pookie and Lizie again too that night.  It was nice but seriously I didn't get much sleep at all!!!!!! 
    The next day my sister met me at my parents house at 9:15am and we got ready to go the the Denver "Cherry Blossom Festival" as I have mentioned we were going to in a previous entry.  We had a good time.  Luckily it did not get too warm until we were ready to leave.  We did enjoy

some entertainment of Japanese traditional dancing, music, drumming, singing etc.  We also feasted on teriyaki chicken and rice, green tea ice cream, inari, and California rolls.  We also browsed the vendors stalls and my sister bought some origami paper and I didn't buy a thing.  I already have my kimono, obi belt to go with it, paper parasol, and fan for my outfit and look so I really didn't need anything else.  My money was well spent on delicious food as I listed above!  YUMMY!  ^___~
    Today I woke up at 9am and went to the bookstore as usual but didn't buy anything.  I also went to Target and looked around buying some milk and things which I needed and also spotted "The Sims2" games which I like.  I have not been able to play them lately for when I did the graphics went on the fritz and then the monitor went out.  The funny thing was it only did this when I played The Sim2, not when I went on the internet or anything so I knew it wasn't the monitor.  I hadn't played the game for about 2-3 months and after seeing the new expansion accessory packs, I knew I had to do something to fix my computer!!!!  I called my sister and she suggested I look into something to do with a "driver" to link my monitor to the graphics card.  Something that may not have been re-installed after I took my computer to the doctor to get wiped clean and fixed after it got "sick".  ^___~
    I called and talked to my dad about the "driver" and he helped me get the thing going and FINALLY it worked and I have been playing the "Sims2 Kitchen and Bath Interior Design" expansion pack with the game today for the past 3 & 1/2 hours.  So fun and so happy!  ^____^
    This weekend was a blast!  I am already looking forward to this next weekend with the 4th of July coming up on Friday and also my Dad's 59th birthday the 3rd.  My grandma from Wyoming is also coming to visit the 2nd and then the bank of course is closed the 4th and I am deeply happy to have that day off.  I work that Saturday the 5th though, but only for the four hour shift and then off Sunday!  :-)  What will I do?  ^___~

    A lot of things are coming up or coming out if that makes sense that excite me!  For one, there are two new

Sims2 PC games in the works that look once again amazingly fun!  The first is a Sims2 accessory pack called Sims2  Ikea.  "Ikea" is a very popular Swedish furniture brand store sweeping our nation with stylish and affordable items for your home.   My sister is a very big fan and though they do not have a store here in Denver or maybe not even Colorado, she has had items shipped to her house from Texas where she first discovered the store while visiting her boyfriends family who live there.  The next BIG Sim2 expansion pack is going to be called Sims2 Apartment Life and it sounds and looks so awesome from the screen-shots they have on the official Sims2 website here. 
    I mentioned before about the new movies actors Mike Myers and Adam Sandler have coming out called "The Love Guru" and "Don't Mess With the Zohan." They look very funny and I would like to see them both!  I have been waiting for them to come out and now they are both in theaters so I need to go see them now right?  ^___^
    Next weekend of the 28th I have that Saturday off and my sister and I are going to the Denver "Sakura Festival" again which I have myself been going to for the past three years now.  My sister has come with me the past two years. The Sakura Festival is a celebration of Japanese culture.  "Sakura" means cherry blossom in Japanese and though we here in Denver do not have too many cherry blossoms, they do mean something special to the Japanese as the turning of the seasons and into one with spring.  The festival as described on the website in the link I provided has much entertainment like traditional Japanese dancing, music, martial arts, and drumming etc.  There are also many vendors selling Asian goods like fans, paper parasols, origami, anime, and even kimonos.  My sister and I also look forward to lunch time when we go to the food bizarre where they have foods like sushi, miso soup, teriyaki chicken, okinomiyaki (Japanese pizza), green tea to drink etc.  Since it is late June we know it will be hot and thank goodness they have a vendor who sells shaved ice every year with flavors as simple as cherry or blueberry to the exotic yet very Japanese like green tea flavored shaved ice which to be honest is VERY good.  My sister and I also had the pleasure of tasting "mochi" last year which is Japanese ice cream.  They had flavors such as ginger and yet again, green tea.  The ginger flavored sounded weird to us at the time but tasted quite good too.  I am looking very forward to going to this festival again this year!