Fun Football & Scrapbooking Saturday
Today was a very fun day. 
Cassidy came over this morning and the four of us piled into the car and drove to Novi, where our first stop was ‘Pastry House Hippo’, a very cool Japanese bakery that I have visited a few times before. We bought red bean rolls, pig shaped buns, and tasty Japanese square bread. While we munched, we traversed over to Twelve Oaks mall (why 12? Not sure.) For the next two hours or so we wandered the mall in search of moderately priced, yet trendy clothing for the fall season. Since I literally threw away most of my long-sleeved shirts when I was packing to leave Japan (I still had to throw out old clothing and other stuff that didn’t fit into my three suitcases + 2 boxes that I sent back through the mail), my mission of the day was to secure a few turtlenecks, at the very least. Two hours later, we had circled the mall and picked up a few new goodies (there was one store that had 3 t-shirts for sale with kanji on them…..I think this is probably more than they sell in all of Japan).
After stopping for lunch to get some BBQ at a nearby Famous Dave’s (we don’t have any in Ann Arbor 
), we drove home and made an impromptu decision to stop by Cassidy’s apartment to grab her scrapbooking items. We then spent the next ~5 hours sitting in the living room, working on our Japan scrapbooks, and watching Michigan absolutely trash Notre Dame 47-21 (best moment: watching two players empty a 5-gal. bucket of ice water down the back of LLoyd Carr). After we got tired of scrapbooking, we made a quick run to McDonalds and came back and enjoyed an episode of Law and Order: SVU.
Coming up tomorrow, a new member of the family will be introduced if all goes well. Hopefully I can make the time tomorrow to write about that, as well as catch up on the last 2+ weeks: school starting, job #2, Megumi’s stay, PSP woes, and some news on the piggy front. Stay tuned…
September 17th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
I didn’t know that there was a Japanese bakery in Novi! I wish I had known that before because I always used to go to Twelve Oaks mall, although I never really succeeded in buying too much there.
May 26th, 2010 at 12:32 am
Scrapbooking was one of my hobbies when i was in high school and college. it was quite fun.`~,