Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Yagi-san - Day 22 - Thursday
I took Thursday morning off of work to take Yagi-san to the airport. A friend of mine is a member of the Continental President’s club so we actually could go past security with him and hang out there.
We played Shogi while we waited:
Then it was time to catch the flight:
Here is the plane [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Yagi-san - Day 21 - Wednesday
I had to work this day also. So, Yagi-san stayed at home, packed, went shopping at Walmart with my in-laws.
That night he took my family out to Dhakshin, an Indian restaurant.
He had a dosa
My mom said good bye
Sonia gave him an album of his trip:
We had some friends over to [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
yagi-san - Day 20 - Tuesday
I had to go to work on Tuesday. So, Yagi-san stayed at home and packed. However, I did have one of neighbors, Angelo, come over for a few hours to chat.
That night, my mom go the kids a dog:
That night we went to Pappasitos with some friends to give Yagi-san a taste [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Yagi-san - Day 19 - Monday
We went with some friends to Galveston
First we went to the Ocean Star offshore drilling platform museum.
It was a little cold, so Stephen wore my jacket…
Then we visited the Hotel Galvez, which I thought was built before the flood. But actually it was built several years afterwards:
then we went to the Titantic [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Yagi-san - Day 18 - Sunday
Headed back to Houston. Ate breakfast at McDonalds on the way:
We went back to my house and rested for a while. Then we went to the Woodlands for Easter dinner with my dad and Carole. Stephen and Amma played Shogi while we waited for a seat at the Cheese Cake Factory:
Afterwards, we went [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Yagi-san - Day 17 - Saturday
Breakfast at the Hilton… worked on teaching Christopher Shogi while we were waiting… (Do you know Shogi? you should.. check out http://www.IPlayShogi.com)
Then we went Canoeing on Village Creek (feeds into the Neches near the Big Thicket national preserve)
Then we ate Dinner at Fuddruckers. And [...]
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Yagi-san - day 16 - Friday
On the way to Beaumont, we stopped at subway
And then we stopped at the Ben J. Rogers Regional Visitors center where we found the most wonderful people to help us. If you are traveling towards Beaumont on I-10 from Houston, then you should definitely stop by and visit.
Next we [...]
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Yagi-san (day 15-Thursday)
Thursday, we spent in Houston. We went to Minute Maid park for a tour.
See! yagi-san really likes baseball. We were trying to convince him to stay another week or so to see the opening game.
We also went to the downtown aquarium.
And then headed off to the Gallaria. We were thinking about going ice skating, [...]
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Yagi-san (day 14 - Wednesday)
We left the La Quinta (which is a lot nicer than the Rodeway Inn). One note about La Quinta next to the capitol… you can’t really see it in the picture below, but there is a stop sign with a note that "All parking spots are Valet Parking"… When they say, "All", they don’t mean [...]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Yagi-san (day 13 - Tuesday)
Breakfast at IHOP. Stephen and Yagi-san play the "dot" game.
Went to Natural Bridge Caverns
I was really happy that I bought the tickets online. I didn’t have to wait in this line! I just went to the front. (Can you see the door from here? Yep, it is that long.)
While we waited for our tour, the [...]
