Our first year anniversary!

Our Dessert

Well, on May 6th we celebrated our one year anniversary. Believe it or not, we've been married for a year now. Our total time of knowing each other is around six years or so now.

To celebrate, we left our church groups early and headed out to Okubo, where we saw Rocky the Final (the movie). Before that, however, was the main part of our celebration: question and answer time. We sat together at dinner at an Italian restaurant in Okubo and asked each other questions about our first year together. Some of the questions we asked were, "What was your best memory of our first year?" and "What was your most embarrassing moment?" We also talked about less cheery topics, like "What one thing do you wish you could go back and change?" We learned a lot about how we each viewed our first year together.

The picture is of our dessert tray at the Italian restaurant. Not only did we have three small desserts, but we each had a pasta of our choice and unlimited pizza slices (each slice could fit in my hand without hanging over it, so they were small and thin). It was still good, of course!

Now, as if dinner and a movie weren't enough for one evening, we also did some shopping. Okubo has a large shopping area right next to the train station, and it interconnects through a series of covered walkways. There are two department stores as well as several smaller shops. We visited a shop called Pet City. We saw lots of cute animals, including one that put two holes in Kim's coat (don't worry, it wasn't her expensive leather jacket).

However, the highlight of that visit was finding a reasonably priced and nice hamster cage. Because Kim had always wanted something better for our hamster, I decided that I would purchase the cage; it was a sort of anniversary gift. I've included a photo so that you can see our little guy enjoying the wonderful new cage! Look for a special post all about our little guy, coming soon!

The new cage