Yuka!

This past weekend we had a very special visitor. Almost 5 years ago, Yuka stayed with us for 3 months while she was here on a student exchange program from Japan. Over the past week or so, she has been on vacation with her family in the US, and last Sunday she came to see us!! We've stayed in touch through Christmas cards and email, and she especially wanted to come meet our sweet little Kai. We had a great time visiting with her. She really enjoyed playing with Kai, too! She wanted to visit the University, go to Cafe Yumm to buy some yumm sauce, and go to Costco. So, that's what we did. She had a wonderful time as we walked around campus, and she reminisced about her days there. Kai did great while riding in the ergo for nearly 2 hours! He started to get a little tired of it by the end, but he did fabulous overall! This is what it looked like towards the end!

After our adventures around town, we went home and had pizza for dinner. She said our pizza is much better than the pizza in Japan...imagine that! She also had fun looking at pictures of our family. When she was last here, Ryan (our nephew) was Kai's age...now he's 6! 

After Kai went to bed, we showed her some of our pictures since Kai's been home and watched a bit of Ocean's 12 before we all started falling asleep. She liked watching the movie since she just visited Las Vegas before she came to Oregon. 

It was really nice to see her, and she kept saying that maybe she'll come back to visit again in another 5 years!

Kai is wearing his Japanese "happi", which Yuka brought for him. 

It is the traditional Japanese festival attire. He looks so cute in it!

Yuka and Kai!