Gotta keep up... Wednesday, July 28

Took my two favorite Korean guys out to one of my favorite places to chow down at... The Sushi Den. We occupied one of the private rooms and pretty much kept the waitress hostage, making her keep the food coming and keeping our tummies happy.

Snickers birthday came last Friday. He's not one for birthdays but I wanted to do something special, so we went on a little trip to the beach. The inital plan was to sleep over at where ever our car took us but it poured like a mofu.

Despite the in-your-face thunderstorm that we barely were able to see and drive our way through, we had a wicked time and it turned out to be quite romantice. At one point we parked on a side country road, put down the back seats in the car, and cuddled in the storm. It was still raining when we arrived at the beach. Snickers decided to piggy-back me while I held the umbrella so that was quite cute.

He even ran out in the rain to pick me a flower. Ok, ok, enter your "make-me-gag" face here all you want, but girls, eat your heart out, and guys, you could only wish to be as incredibly sweet as my Snickers.

With our trip to Canada quickly approaching, Snickers has been more pro-active about learning English yet he still hasn't grasp many words. Take for example seagull, he insists on calling them chickens.

Then this past week I got my hair dyed and Snickers joined me at the salon. I was his "free entertainment", as he put it.

After a week of 6am runs, morning and afternoon swims, exercise and much needed showers from just hacking the heat, the Philippines left me needing a kind of hair make-over. Got my hair trimmed and dyed... lovin' it!!!

As for other things I've been doing... still doing my early morning language group, tutoring Blue, running every day, and I returned to boxing this past Monday after a week off. Snickers dropped a bit of weight after his inital bounce-back up to over 74kgs. He now weighs in at about the 70kgs mark.

Going from the Philippines' hot, hot weather to Korea's hot weather needed some adjusting for me, oddly enough, and up until late last week I didn't consider Korea's summer weather to be so hot so I had returned to daily runs in the blazing sun with a hooded sweater on. I've finally adjusted however and am back to sweating my brains out during training.

With the big visit to Canada being a week away now, I'm super busy planning things. Turns out one of my brothers will be visiting Canada for two days so I'll be able to celebrate my birthday with him... very cool. Snickers and I will only be in Canada for about two and a half weeks but among the various dinner parties, day trips, mini camping trip, family reunion, our wedding dinner reception party, and all the other numerous things I've got planned, I might have to readjust our schedule so that he'll have some free time to sleep or at least breath. I can't believe our trip is just around the corner. I get all giddy just thinking about it!!!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Can Canada handle him?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song.
-- Jerry Van Amerongen