Gobble Gobble

The holiday season is now upon us. The time has come for feeding our faces and our unqeunchable appetites for all things material...

First, we started the holiday celebration by chaperoning a second grade field trip to a play called "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats" presented in Japanese...

Jason's Group Decided to Name Themselves the DKGs (Denver, Kaliyah and Gjia)

Proud Mother with her Lamb

Denver's Class

The wolf and the goats were just visiting for the day and are not normally part of his class. Denver's teacher is Ms. Nierman.

Thanksgiving Luncheon for Denver's Class

On Thanksgiving Day we joined the Otis Family for their super-mega Thanksgiving Day Bash. The food was great and the company was awesome, especially since Jason was there...

A Monkey Bouncy Castle...

...is what separates the much more common Mega Thanksgiving Day Bash from the much more coveted Super-Mega Thanksgiving Day Bash.

A Lively Round of Catch Phrase

Thanksgiving Tragedy!!!

Those who know Denver well, might already know that he likes to celebrate any major holiday with either illness or injury. This year for Thanksgiving he chose injury. Unfortunately, Denver's head came out on the losing end of a battle between cranium and concrete. To his parents' delight an emergency room visit was not required...just decorative napkins for the bleeding, a bag of ice for the swelling and an ACE bandage to add some style. Thanks to Melanie for capturing this great action shot.

Caring Father

Denver was a little embarassed about the bandages required for his injury so his loving father decided to help out by adding some cool factor to the situation. What could be more fitting on Thanksgiving day than some authentic cardboard feathers to convert the ACE bandage into an Indian Warrior Headband? Maybe next time Jason should tell Denver the truth and not tell him that the cardboard pieces are required to help with air circulation.

To our delight we were able to buy a real Christmas tree fresh from Colorado. We haven't had a real Christmas tree since the very first year we were married...

Note to Self:

Next year save yourself a few hours of branch cutting by making sure to buy a tree with a stump long enough to fit in the stand.

Denver and Holly Hard at Work

The Finished Product!

It's a Big World After All...

... and you are just a very, very, very small part of it!

That is our take home message after spending nine days in the world's largest city. We had an awesome time in Tokyo! Our eyes have been opened and our view of the world has been permanently altered.

If you really care what we did on our trip and you have a few hours of time to spare, then feel free to click on the web album link below. If you don't really care what we did on our trip, then please don't click on the web album link below because I am sure that there is something else better that you could do with your time:

http://picasaweb.google.com/dalpiasfamily/TokyoTripNovember2008

Trick or Treak

Halloween here in Okinawa was a blast...

45 Minutes Before Trick or Treat Time

The master pumpkin carver is hard at work while his young apprentice works on perfecting his pirate growl.

15 Minutes before Trick or Treat Time

Denver carved his own pumpkin this year (It's the one directly above his heed). Given our time constraints, Jason went with the simple block design for his pumpkin (next to Denver's). The other two pumkins are Otis Family originals.

Introducing... Cat Woman

Introducing... Davy Jones Denver

Cat Woman Protecting our Candy with her Fierce Roar!

Yes, there were a lot of Trick or Treaters

We have never seen anything like it. There were so many trick-or-eaters. You would have thought people were giving out Hannah Montana concert tickets.

Cat Woman and Pocohantos Helping Pass Out the Candy

Jason Hard at Work Giving out Candy
Based on the amount of candy we gave out, we estimate that we had somewhere between 500 and 750 trick or treaters (we have been buying candy every time we go to the store for 6 weeks in preparation) and that number does not even include any Stewart exaggeration! Poor Jason gave out so much candy that he developed a really bad case of tendonitis in his elbow from reaching in and out of the candy bowl so many times. Unfortunately, we only made it 1 1/2 hours before running out of candy.