Mr & Mrs ....

Well, after more than 7 years together with travels around the world & back again, we tied the knot in Las Vegas on October 11th 2010. An amazing few days together .. we were in a 8 car accident on the E 15 expressway in our taxi on our first day ... funny enough on the way to pick out the above dress & tux which we were 3 hours late to our appointment at Tux One. It was a wedding that was organized in about 10 days, but the 2 of us had a delightful day. My shoes were purchased the morning of, on my way to hair & make-up at Colors with a Bouchon coffee & pain au chocolate in tow. We had a garden ceremony in the Venetian hotel 3:30 pm followed by an hour of photography with the Venetian photographer.

The day continued with another 3 hours of buzzing around the city with the delightful Mindy Bean with photo's at the Las Vegas sign, downtown and at dusk along the strip. We then slipped into something a little more comfortable and were chauffeured over to the MGM grand for a 9 pm reservation at Joël Robuchon. It was indeed an intimate Wedding Reception Dinner, the 2 of us enjoying 4.5 hours of extreme indulgence with the 16 course tasting menu ... topped off with cocktails to start, bubbles, then wine matched with every other course.

We look forward to our life ahead and all that it brings, which is bound to be lots of travel, fun times and big food ....

You're allergic to what? and Congratulations !!

Kris, Chika & Michiko on Wedding Day

Oh Chika, you are one amazingly special girl ;-) Any outing with Chika is bound to be packed with excitement! I should also use this opportunity to congratulate Chika and Kris on their wedding day Friday, 25th September .... Due to unforeseen and sudden abdominal pains, which meant me spending my Friday in the clinic getting x-rays of my tummy to find out my small intestines were 4 times the size they should have been ... sadly meant we missed their wedding. I had been looking forward to attending the traditional Japanese ceremony for months ... Kim even bought a jacket just for the occasion, but want you both to know that we were thinking about you and sending our regards. Congratulations and here's to a wonderful future for an amazing couple !!

Anyway, back to the allelergy. Chika has one of those allergy's to mushroom where she can not eat them, but her giant bowl of Summer vegetable soba arrives and it seems okay for her to just pick around them?! ~shrug~ It looked damned delicious, and I didn't mind helping her finish off all the mushroom bits.



Kim and I both choose the Ten-don set. A selection of super crisp tenpura sitting on a bed of rice with a splash of sauce. There's a little pot of chawanmushi - a just set custard, sesame spinach, pickles, shredded negi and wasabi and a plate of cold soba noodles. A delicious meal to keep us moving on another day of adventures ....



Oh my, check out these umbrella lockers we spotted on the way out. Too cool!