The first weekend

Prior to Yuki's arrival, we had a general idea of things we wanted to do and share with her.Perhaps our plans were a little too ambitious. I don't think we realized how tired she was going to be, or how tired we were going to be.

Yuki arrived Thursday evening, and we didn't get home until 2am. Will and I tried to sleep in on Friday, but we are just too accustomed to getting up early - 7:30 came and we were up. 5 hours of sleep doesn't meananything to your biological alarm clock. Thursday night I pre-made breakfast for Friday morning. I made french toast and bacon - something easy for breakfast and something that I knew Yuki would like.

Breakfast turned out better than the first time I had made this dish (thank goodness!) and then we got ready to introduce her to family and the neighborhood. We took her to my mom's house first. I think she was a little overwhelmed with all of the dogs that she has, but she wasn't scared. Next, we had to take care of a few things for school and then we went out for some fun.

Will asked Yuki if she had ever been to putt-putt or mini golf. We hit a language barrier. She hadn't heard of either. So we just decided to gothere and show her. There is this really great indoor mini gold place in West Chester called Monster Golf. It's a lot of fun, and we were hoping that it wouldn't be too busy for a Friday afternoon.

It turns out that Yuki had no idea how to play mini-golf, but she did quite well. We had so much fun playing it with her, and I think she had fun as well. We all laughed, joked around, and got to know each other a little better. I have no idea who actually won theround - I never kept score. But I think keeping score would have taken some of the fun out of the game that day. Honestly, I think Will won. Hopefully it's a place where we'll all go again.

Friday we had originally planned on going to the drive-in to watch a movie. We then changed to Dave and Busters, and then we changed again to Toot's. On our way to Toot's we changed our minds again and we went to a local Japanese restaurant for dinner. Yuki looked really tired, and we thought it would be a nice dinner for her. Maybe not what she was expecting. After dinner, we went to Loveland to the Whippy Dipp for some ice cream.

In all, Friday was a good day. Maybe we pushed her a little far, but we all got to talk and get to know each other a little more. We all had fun, and we got to share some of our favorite things.

Saturday, we took things easy. I had realized that we hadn't given Yuki time to unpack her things! My mistake! So that morning she unpacked. We went to St X to pick up Clayton from Band Camp that morning. We had taken Yuki to Will's parent's house Friday evening, but we didn't stay for very long. We had some lunch at the school, and that afternoon we watched the marching band's performance. It was really nice to see the results of the work the kids had been doing at camp that week.

That afternoon we came home and played some Wii sports together. We also went out and bought Mario Kart to give us another game we can all play together. So far, it's been a lot of fun playing Wii together.

Saturday night we went out to Toot's for dinner, and then we came home and watched a movie. It was a much needed quiet evening!

Today, we went out for dim sum for breakfast and then went grocery shopping (ugh!). I asked Yuki if the stores were as big in Okinawa, and she said that they were much much smaller. Tonight our families are coming over to celebrate Yuki's arrival with a little welcome party. It's a night for the family to gather eat some tasty food, and do whatever.

These past 3 days have been packed. Will said that he felt like it's been a really long weekend, and I told him that I felt like it's been a week. We're still just as excited and happy as were were the day Yuki arrived. I'm still shocked that we're taking care of another person and that we're responsible for another life. Holy crap... I have a daughter... I'm happy to say that too.