JANUARY

Well, not much exciting happened in January. The first week we spent in Okinawa but I wrote about that in our last post. The rest of the time we spent hanging out in Ashikaga, playing cards with friends

and going out for lunch or dinner.

We did have one crazy weekend where Leigh turned...well lets just say old ;) and we had to say goodbye to one of our dear friends who decided to go back home to pursue other amazing opportunities. We miss you Wally! We gave our livers and brain cells the rest of the month to recuperate from that.

We did book our ticket home and that was exciting. We are coming back to Canada for two weeks before flying to Paris and travelling France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Spain and maybe Portugal for four months until we fly back to Canada for Denis's little brother's wedding in August. So if you have any suggestions for must sees on our trip please send them along, we are trying to make a rough itinerary although the plan is to be pretty flexible.

So we will be arriving in Calgary March 26, spending a day doing some errands and then driving to Penticton for three days to visit my mother, sister, grandmother, Phil and our niece and soon-to-be God daughter Olivia and will drive back to Edmonton April 1st and stay until Thursday when we will go back to Calgary and visit until we leave for Paris on Monday. Hopefully we will get a chance to visit with everyone, so send us some emails and tell us when is best for you, it is going to be a pretty busy trip but we will make time for everyone! We can't wait to see you all and catch up on the past year!