San Diego

ちょっと忘れたけど一ヶ月前ぐらいアメリカの一番有名な動物園を訪ねるために僕らがサンディエゴに行って来ました。すごく楽しかったです。キリンちゃんにえさを上げましたりサイとかボノボとか近くで眺めたりしました。Flickrに
写真〜。

サンディエゴがメキシコにちかいですので美味しいレストランがいっぱいです。

One of the difficult things in this country is buying small amounts of food, especially at restaurants and cafes. It might sound strange to you, but it is true. For instance, you hardly find short sized drinks at the Starbucks in this area. Moreover, if you go to a restaurant and order one dish, it would feed you for lunch and dinner. This is why I don't go to restaurants by myself--I don't want to eat too much and I don't want to carry my leftovers either. I wish I could buy half the food at half the price. If restaurants let me to do that, I could save a lot of money.

On Sunday morning, we left Hugo's early because we wanted to go to a BBQ party which was organized by the martial art school where I take my Tai Chi class. It was a potluck kind of party so we picked up a sweet potato pie on the way home (it was very good).

The flier said that the BBQ would start from eleven o'clock, and they were going to perform Kung-Fu first. Because I really didn't want to miss their performance, we hurried on our way.

Today was a perfect sunny day! The blue sky always makes me happy. On a day like today, I like being outside.

Unlike many Japanese couples, we had a Buddhist wedding even though my spouse was an American. There were reasons for that: I'm a Buddhist and my father is a Buddhist priest, which means I grew up in a temple. We had our wedding ceremony at our temple and it meant a lot for us.

今日のクイズ：
「みかん」とは何でしょうか。

あ）甘い日本原因の種無しの柑橘類の果実です。
い）生命を与える善良の小太陽です。
う）ウマイッ。

正解は以上の全部です。

もう何でか忘れちゃったんですけど、昨夜、景子とみかんについて話していました。多分今週、急にさむくなったからです。そうして、俺がインターネットで「Ojai Valley」というカリフォルニアの南部にある果樹園を見つけました。その会社は40ドルで5キロを送ってくれますが、「Monterey Market」という販売代理店が近くにあって今日の昼に景子が買ってきました。

これらは普段、この辺りで買える「さつまみかん」と違います。ほんまの紀州みかんです。

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かっ…感動しました。

I'm very indecisive, I know that it is not a good thing, but I have a hard time making decisions about food. Whenever I eat out, I take a long time to decide what I eat and I often change my mind a couple of times before I order. I don't like this habit, but I can't help myself.

Afghan food is one of my favorite. It's not too spicy like Indian or Thai (I like both of them though), but not too plain like Japanese (again, I like Japanese food too).

The first time when I had Afghan food was about 6 years ago in Australia. At that time I worked at a primary school as a volunteer in Australia and stayed at several student's houses for a couple of months each. Two of those families were immigrants from Afghanistan, so while I stayed with them I ate Afghan food every day. Their food fascinated me and I gained a lot weight.