Chris

A quick five days

We had a good time with our friend Chris who I talked about in the last post. Some of what we did included going to Mex for an afternoon, hanging out in LA for a while, checking out an Angels game, having a little Wii session with some friends, and just hanging out for the rest of the time. It was really great to catch up with Chris and I must admit that he wasn't quite ready to go home for these three reasons. So five days later Chris has now gone back to Japan and then will be on his way home to Australia before long. We hope that Chris will come back soon and maybe even come and live here in LA so we'll keep our fingers crossed until then!

As for the rest of our week, here are some random photos!

Tijuana, mate!

So we made a run for the border.


And spent the afternoon in TJ.


With our good mate Chris from the land down under who is currently living and working in the land of the rising sun. He just came by for a quick visit... Bienvenidos a Mexico y Los Estados Unidos!


Mi chinita bonita.


Store vendor with a moustachio fantastico.


Dancing chicas y chicos.


Mi esposa drinking "squash" at Sanborns.


Fun trinkets that sort of reminded us of this in Taiwan.


And the same meal as the last time, enchiladas de mole. ¡¡Que yummy!!

More to come with our adventures with Chris later. Until then, have a good day, mate!

Coco

Pulling the plug on TV (reference to the last post) and general busyness in life kept us, as one friend put it, "unplugged," from the world of blogging for over two months now! So for those of you left who might give reading this blog one more chance--hi, how are you? Nice to see you again--here is the latest and the greatest in the world of Cory and Farah.


Man's best friend and one happy addition to our family, Coco!


She is one sweet and playful dog and we love having her around. Waking up at 5:30 in the morning to take her out to go potty and the many other responsibilities that come with dog ownership are well worth her company, not to mention how owning a dog is in many ways parental training grounds! Don't get too excited about that last comment though! About Coco, she is an eleven month-old Maltese-Terrier and came to us from a very loving home that could no longer take care of her. It's been an adjustment for us all as I'm sure that Coco misses her family and all, but after almost two weeks together and two dog training books later (I highly recommend this one: Good Owners, Great Dogs, we're one happy family of three.


Here, Coco is pulling apart a toy that Grandma got for her. She sure likes to chew (but not on furniture, thankfully)!


By the way, did I mention that Coco is already house-broken?! :)
What a good girl!!!

And here are some pics from the past couple of months:


A brief visit with my brother Ryan just before Mother's Day. Pic taken by Eric for Mother's Day present. And yes, there is a story behind the bubbles...




And speaking of Eric, here he his!




Hilary, a friend of ours I've been teaching Japanese for a couple of months or so. She is really coming along and for me, it's been great to be speaking Japanese again... ヒラリー、ちゃんと勉強してるか？:)


Last but not least, our two favorite road warriors. My parents are on a crazy 6,000 mile road trip right now and are blogging along the way but I'm not sure if I can add a link without their permission. I'll keep you posted on that...

And for now it's back to taking care of Coco and doing my best to be a good dad and a good husband. Come on, Coco. Let's go potty!