For the last two weeks one of Miwa's friends from Japan has been here, Yuri. I met her when Miwa and I were first dating. Its been nice to have a third person in the house. Miwa can relax and be Japanese for the first time in a while. The two of them also did the housework while I was at work :)

The cat likes her too. That's when you know its good

I'll jump on the quiz bandwagon (hell, I jumped onto the blog bandwagon... late)

http://www.bitpit.be/

I got 76%, it said I was a Genuine Ultimate Gamer or something.

Mi and I went to the coast this Sunday. Rockport is a little touristy destination for those Bostonians who don't want to handle the traffic and prices of the Cape. Halibut Point State Park is based around this old granite quarry that has filled in with water. The quarry, with its "NO QUARRY SWIMMING" signs posted every 6 ft, looks like one of the ( Read more... )

I have a 50 minute drive every morning and evening to work, and it was really boring until I started listening to audiobooks during the drive. Right now I'm listening to The Wheel of Time.

Whats fun is listening to Uno's cursing ("flaming" this! and "bloody" that!). Its much more real than in print :D comical!

Well I'm back in Boston now, and ironically I saw my first Lamborghini in traffic the day after I got here ( Read more... )

OK ok I like Florence again. It sure does have all the art you could want. We went to the Uffizi museum today; called the best collection of renaissance paintings in the world. I am certainly getting my renaissance education taken care of. Leonardo finally appeared with a few amazing paintings. I really like his Annunciation, done when he was ( Read more... )

Got back to Florence yesterday. Oh my god its so noisy after Venice! I can’t see how people can live with all these cars! I yearn for more simpler times ( Read more... )

Going back to Florence today ( Read more... )

Venice is at its most beautiful in the evening. It is really quiet. You can hear the water against the shore, and the gondolas swishing through the water, and ppl laughing. You can buy a glass of wine and drink it outside by the canal. Also it is of course nice and cool. We went out in the evening to see San Marco’s Basilica again. I would ( Read more... )

Its been awhile since I could connect to hte internet, so I'm just going to put the last few days in the next few posts ( Read more... )