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Two Sunday's ago was an amazing day! We went to Yoyogi Koen, and to the Meiji shrine. We took the train to the Harajaku station and just wandered into the Meiji shrine. It was beautiful, and packed! We found our way out, and ended up taking the long way to get to Yoyogi park, but we were able to walk through the city. As we were walking we came across a bird eating out of a cup of noodles. He didn't care how close we got to him, so I took a few pictures, and got a good one of him tipping the cup over to get to the food. It was perfect weather to walk around, high 50s to low 60s. We got into the park, we found a bench to rest on. We just watched the people go by, and enjoyed the scenery. Yoyogi Koen is one of Tokyo city's largest parks. So many people brought their dogs and there was a group of people all with Papillon puppies, there was about 20 little dogs between these people.We stumbled across a group of contortionists. It hurt to watch them bend and twist their bodies. They were quite amazing though. There were groups of musicians playing everywhere, and it was great to walk from one group to another. Each one had a completely different style than the last one. As we were getting ready to leave we came across a small band playing in a circle of trees. They sounded great, and Travis really enjoyed them. We sat and listened for a while, and they started drawing a larger crowd, then security showed up and made them stop playing. We couldn't understand the security officers, but we assumed that it was because of the amps on the dry leaves.


Last Friday we found out we're pregnant. Natasha is about 5 weeks along now and the baby seems to be doing just fine. Natasha's been tired and nauseous. We were quite surprised, but we are overjoyed at the idea of having a child. The baby is due around August 20, 2012!!