Congratulations Mariko and Takeru!

So my friends Mariko and Takeru who were exchange students im Wisconsin two years ago are having a baby and getting married!!!!

In celebration of this, we had a UW-Madison exchange student reunion! IT was one of the best reunions ever! Yuka, Butsurin, Chikako, Takeru, Mariko, Sarah, David, Tomoko, Sarah, Landy, and myself were all in attendence. We ate at a very tasty Vietnamese restaurant. Butsurin put together a very wonderful yet sometimes embarassing slide show of photos from back in the day in Madison. :) Landy and I performed a Mini Moni dance in honor of the bride and groom to be.. even though I had no idea how the dance really went. ha ha ha Then we all sat around and tried to come up with names for their baby boy who will soon be on his way in July.

After dinner, we all went to Coldstone ice cream together. This Coldstone store is the first one in Japan and always has a wait of an hour or more. I'm not particularily fond of Coldstone, but in the effort to not be a party pooper, I made the best of the hour and a half wait and was able to hide my disappointment when the quality of the food did not own up to the quantity of the wait time in line. hahaha

Yuka is still adorable as all get out, Tomoko still crazy, blunt, and funny, David still not saying a single word, Butsurin is still Butsurin, Takeru is still Mr. Cool, Mariko is still adorable tiny.. even though she's like 7 months along, Chikako is still as sweet as ever, Sarah and I are still Sarah and I.. we can just speak Japanese better.. haha... And everyone was so happy to see that Landy still remembered her Mini Moni dance :) It was a great time seeing everyone again, hanging out, and reminiscing about the good ol' days back in Madison. It was a great time seeing everyone again, hanging out, and reminiscing about the good ol' days back in Madison.