8/30/2010

BBQ party on 29th/August


I had a great party yesterday! Here are some pics from the party. We visited A's sister's house. It's a beautiful AZ style design, 2stories, I lost counting how many bed rooms do they have! Sad to admit but my apartment in Tokyo was as same as their one single closet...lol
I really liked frozen margaritas and nice foods, Thank you A!





8/26/2010

Napa Valley Wineries








After passed Golden Gate Bridge, we headed for up north to Napa Valley Wineries.
It took 2-3 hours drive from SF, not that far, It's a amazing drive that you can see California's farming area, the view reminds me of my hometown, especially when there is no houses.

There are so many wineries in Napa Valley, what you should do is that stop by the visitor center to get the map and pick up which wineries you would like to go, also ladies at visitor center tell you lots of histories about each wineries. We enjoyed talking with the old lady there.

We picked up one of the oldest wineries "BERINGER"and most popluar one "V.SATTUI", Both are beautiful places, You pay $5-10 first and you can keep tasting any kind of wine until you get drunk.
Most of wines are you can only buy in each wineries, they don't even transport to Arizona, cz of the climate.

He got 16 bottles of wine and many cheeses.

We left around 4-5pm Friday to go home finally, stopped at Bakersfield and went to HOOTERS bar to check CA hooters girl and stayed hotel to rest, and arrived home around 6pm on Saturday.

It was amazing SF and Napa Valley trip! Thanks A!!

8/24/2010

San Francisco Trip on 17th to 21th/August







This time was the longest road trip that we drove up to San Francisco, CA from Phoenix, AZ. It took almost 2days. On the way we stopped by the small town to refrain from all night driving, stayed in cheap motel type of hotel, I said "as long as there is shower I can use, I am fine!" It's just for sleeping for couple of hours, it doesn't need to be fancy! But it was actually shitty than we expected... It wasn't that cheap either. He just moved the chair to shut the front door so that no one can break in..LOL... America, you can't even imagine how dangerous the life here is, It would be much worse than I think? or Japan might be too peaceful sometimes? If you were born and raised in JP, most of countries in the world would be dangerous for you,,, but in meantime it's more passionate and exciting too! so I like both.

In second day, we finally got to SF after 4 more hours drive and checked in hotel at 3pm.
We start walking around Union Square to china town , Fisherman's Wharf.
To be honest I wasn't so impressed about those typical tourist spots, It's still ok but so crowded cz of so many tourists, and the place is trashy sometimes.

I liked the business district near the Oakland Bay Bridge much more! It's a wonderful energetic area where professional people are hanging out. I have a friend from SF, He and his wife are my best friends in Tokyo , very stylish and cool people, I was imaging they used to hang out around this area. Thanks M!!

After stayed 2nights in SF, we head for Napa Valley to try wine tasting! Second day will be in next post! ;) Continuing... :)

Hope you are not bored yet...

Farm Grill Restaurant in Gilbert, AZ


Just got back from outside, I went out with his dad to eat lunch together at Gilbert, AZ.
Gilbert is such a beautiful town that lots of nice houses there, it's very safe and clean, nice neighbors. We had a hamburger , garlic potato and ice tea at Joe's Farm Grill Restaurant .

The restaurant exist right next to the farm , seems like the same owner owns all farm , restaurant and cafe there. Gilbert is modern beautiful town nowadays but it used to be farming town with no houses,malls and stuff.

It would be good to sit outside terrace, when it's cooler, maybe in November :)

I suddenly thought like 'Oh this is what my dad should do for his wasted lands in my hometown.
Growling vegetables and serves them right next to his farm, shouldn't stay with too much organic restaurant taste, otherwise it would be only known for niche market who cares about their health... I will try to talk to him. :)

Thanks A to take me out! :))

8/23/2010

27 STUNNING Apple Concept Products From The Future










Wh
at would we do with an Apple car? A transparent iMac? Or even an "iPottie"?
I will save up money to buy all amazing apple products in the future!! yeey!


Which one do you like most? :)


Just got back from SF, it was wonderful road trip! I love SF energetic vibe and people!!

8/12/2010

Droid VS iPhone


Let's take a look at amazing Droid 2 spec!
The 3.7-inch screen,1 GHz processor,512MB of RAM,total cargo capacity of 40GB, and cool body design by Motorola and interface isn't that bad anymore.
Here more details

Incredible!! I am about to change Droid 2 from my iPhone(3G,8GB ...lol)

But there are some topics that make you feel iPhone is still better to have?!

10 Incredible iPhone Photographs - want to know how they can take pics like that, much better than my pics of DSLR...

iPhone Owners Have the Most Sex Partners... LOL
- wondering why girls chose iPhone owners as xx friends?? I personally don't really care...

10 Free iPhone Apps To Learn A New Skill In 10 Minutes - "How to save a life"app looks useful. ;D

hmmm.. tough call but I still choose Droid 2 with high spec like a computer!
How about you? :D

One of my favorite town in Arizona


Scottsdale! There are nice shopping mall, many lounge bar out there!
We walked around Fashion Square last night and 5th avenue :) It's a perfect sunset to sit outside and drink and chat ;) Though the temperature is still hot to sit outside sometimes, most of place have shower mist to cool you down, sometimes I feel even cold with it, when you sit for long.

5th and Wine is the beautiful lounge bar, we just found it last night. The place was so packed with lots of people who seem to finish work and came into the bar and having a nice evening there, even if the Tuesday night.We will definitely check it out soon!

8/10/2010

Road trip on 7th/Aug to Tucson and Tombstone




















We left Phoenix around 10am in morning to head for Tucson to visit Kartchner caverns state park this weekend. It's another awesome trip to see great nature of Arizona.

The camera wasn't allowed in the cave so please look at the video in link above.
It's about 30mins time travel tour in the cave!!

After we drove to another city called Tombstone, The city is known for one of the oldest town in Arizona, I saw many cowboy/cowgirl style people on the street. :)
There are many historical museum , bank, bar remain as it was from long time ago, you can see in the pics!

As soon as we got Tombstone, huge storm hit the town,
It was heavy raining and lighting again, I felt like we were in my favorite drama "Supernatural" :D cool!

We head back to Phoenix around 10:30pm and went clubbing afterward!

Thanks again my bf for another wonderful trip!


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8/04/2010

Road trip on 31th July - day2



















Road trip day 2, We started from small town PAGE to head for another town called WINSLOW! If you are The Eagles fan, you probably already knew this town ;)
Yes!! The city is known for one of the song of The Eagles "Take It Easy".

I always wanted to visit WINSLOW ARIZONA and standing on the corner to meet the girl in a flatbed ford. Let's see "if your sweet love is gonna save me" :D haha

We also visited Meteor Crater too,It's just amazing spectacular view!!
Those who don't know about Meteor Crater like me, visit here!

ARIZONA is so cool!!

Nice song from radio


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My Birthday!


I am still 28 years old in AZ, but I am already 29 in JP today! Happy Birthday me! :D
I will try to keep improving myself to become good person to get respect from people around me. :))

Thanks mom!

BTW, Isn't it funny? :D


I found this question board at the Grand Canyon, you don't need to worry about if you might fall over the edge? hahaha :D

JP translation☆
Question : どれくらいの頻度で、人が崖のエッジから落ちる事故が起こるのか?
Answer : 驚く事に、滅多に事故は起きません。そして落っこちた人々は、グランドキャニオンの300-footの切り立つ急斜面から助かる事も滅多にありません。(笑)気をつけて、エッジから一定の距離を保って歩いて下さい。

Road trip to the Grand Canyon on 31th July - day1



















This weekend he took me to the Grand Canyon, which exists in northern Arizona, close to Utah state. It took about 4hours drive from where we live.
On the way, we passed through huge storm that cause heavy rain and lighting,it's really scary!! I don't think I can drive like him.. :(

When we reached to the Grand Canyon National Park, the storm is already gone and we were able to see the spectacular view from the top of the mountain!! It was awesome view I've ever seen!!

We kept driving towards to Utah state, and when we got there, suddenly figured there was no gas station for next 40miles away,,, :( so ended up to turn around and go back to south to go to small town "PAGE". We stopped by some bars there, It was fun to talk with local people. :))

I've been a bit stressed out since I got here Arizona, because of maybe the big life change all of sudden, I was a bit missing things I used to have in Tokyo,,, but this time trip totally blow up my mind to say "I LOVE ARIZONA!!!" now! yey!

Thanks for my bf and wonderful Arizona nature☆


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