Chet and I have finally moved into our new beautiful home!!

I’ve been very busy with cleaning, unpacking, putting in new appliances and more. We moved in at the beginning of September.  I couldn’t be happier.  The home is now finally starting to come together and since I’m done with house chores for now, I’ve been working on the itinerary of Chet and I’s honeymoon trip to Japan!  The wedding is only a month away and since things will begin to get busy soon, I decided to go ahead and plan out our trip!!

Chet and I bought our tickets back in July.  They were very expensive, they were about 3,000 bucks for our round trip!! I began to work a little bit on the trip, but stopped since I didn’t have much information then.

On Monday, we finally booked out hotel.  We are staying at the ANA InterContinental Tokyo hotel located right smack in the middle of Tokyo itself!! Chet’s dad travels a lot and he accumulates so many points with a certain hotel group.  Well, he was so kind to give us his hard earned points and he booked our hotel for us.  We are staying for a week.  The only thing I am NOT looking forward to is the loooong 14 hour flight.  Our sleeping patterns are going to be flipped upside down once we begin our stay in Tokyo.

I thought the flight to Hawaii was excruciating, but this one will top the cake. Who knows, we might meet some cool people on the flight to Japan and chit chat the whole way there!  Also on the flight, we will have power outlets for our net-books..so that will also help pass the time.  I’m sure the whole way there, I will probably be studying my Japanese and also going over our destination and hotel routes.

Today I’ve been studying the Japanese subway, JR systems and it was really confusing at first, but I managed to pick up on it quick.

The places we are planning to visit so far are:

• Tokyo Tower
• Ghibli Museum (I can’t wait to see this!! I’ve been a HUGE Ghibli fan since I was very young)
• Akihabara
• Shibuya
• Mt. Fuji

Thats about it so far.  There is sooo much to do and see that I know it will be enough to make our heads spin!  I can’t wait for this trip and I am kinda more excited about going to Japan rather than attending the day of my own wedding! lol, crazy I know, but its been a very long time dream of mine since I was a kid.  I know that week of the wedding/honeymoon, I will NOT sleep.  I will be too overly excited and its not going to help me at all with sleep!!

Sometimes I wonder if I am dreaming because soo many good things have came my way and soo many great things have already happened that its almost too good to be true.  I guess I’m just a girl who lives a very blessed and happy life.  I thank god everyday for giving me the life I have.  I am very happy and I couldn’t ask for more. These past 4 years of my life have been the best.  Ever since 2007, nothing but great things have came my way.  A lot of my dreams have came true and the future ahead of me is soo bright and beautiful that its really breathtaking.  I’m very excited and I can’t wait for a lot of things in the near future to come!!

Right now I feel like the happiest woman alive!!  Its the best feeling in the world!!

Today I made some Hiragana flash cards. I used my Cricut paper trimmer, thick card stock, my awesome Canon printer and my handy-dandy vector program, Adobe Illustrator, to create these cool flash cards!!

Before The Cuts

They took all day to make because I had to cut them individually, one by one, page by page. I’m glad I didn’t run out of ink! I got the idea from a website I found today. This website sold Katakana/Hiragana flash cards and it was slightly expensive, so I decided to create my own!

Since I worked really hard on these cards, I plan on not giving out the template. Though, there are already a lot of free/ready to print- Katakana/Hiragana flash cards online. I would recommend in looking around online for the free ones. There are a lot of resources out there to learn the language!

I’m doing well with the language. I’m using Rosetta Stone (I HIGHLY recommend it!) and I’m also using a workbook that is really helping me. Hehe !