Awww...

You know, Im really sad the Steve Irwin died. Really. I remember watching him for hours. I loved the Crocodile Hunter. Very said stuff. Anyways, yesterday, Animal Planet (woo, I get Animal Planet in Japan!) was showing a tribute to Steve. Nothing but Crocodile Hunter and family shows all day. I watched a few of them. They just made me sad so Chris usually had me change the channel because it would make me tear up and stuff. Well, last night around 10:00, there wasn't ANYTHING on. We have 60 channels and nothing was on TV. So I flipped on Animal Planet. They were showing the Croc Diaries (which is pretty much just a show about Steve and his family and what they are doing at the time its filmed). This one was about Sui (his dog). Now, his dog is always getting bit or sick or something. So I was expecting this to be a noraml "crap, Sui is sick, so lets get her fixed!" episode.

They took Sui to the vet to get her checked out. Chris said, "You should turn the channel because she's going to have cancer and die. Then you are going to be really sad." I just laughed and commented how I have seen episodes where Sui is sick and they always get her fixed. I wasn't worried. Sui wouldn't have cancer. They wouldn't show the dog die. Chris just shrugged.

10 minutes later, the TV confirmed it. Sui had cancer. THEY SHOWED HER DIE! THEY SHOWED STEVE SPENDING THE NIGHT WITH HER AND SLEEPING WITH HER WHEN SHE DIED. Really, it was so very very sad. I was already depressed because seeing happy shows about Irwin was bittersweet. But then to show him stay up all night with his dog and then WEEP after she died. I cried. I cried hard. I cried for a dog I never met and for Steve Irwin. I guess it's dumb. I didn't know him or anything. But he was such a good person. I am very sad he's gone. Sad for his family too. I will miss him and his wacky animal shows. They were always so much fun...

ANYWAYS, enough of that. Now, to show you my new lovelies! They have some gorgeous puzzles here. Here are three. The first is my birthday puzzle that I have already shown. It's gorgeous to me. It's titled "the Heron Daughter". Pretty pretty!


Isn't she pretty? It's just so graceful looking. I dunno. Im lame. I love puzzles.

This next one doesn't really have a name. Well, the lady has a name but I don't feel like finding it. It's not something you can pronounce anyways. Hahah...just kidding. She's pretty though...


The red was REALLY hard to do. But I enjoyed it mightily.

This puzzle was actually the hardest. I'm not sure why. Well, the blues were hard. It was hard to distinguish the blues of the kimono and the blues of the ocean. I think she's pretty though. She also just has a name. All of there were done by the same artist though. Very pretty. I was thinking about gluing them (all puzzles come with glue in Japan) and hanging them as art. But I can't tell if thats insanely nerdy or tacky or what. They are just so pretty!


You should be jealous. There are more in this series that I want. But like a big girl, I am just going to have to wait to get anymore. One puzzle a month is what we are doing. They are too expensive to do it anymore than that!

These next pictures are of a weird builder set. You get flat pieces that click together and you can make things out of them. I made the bulldozer. It took about 30 minutes to make because I had to sort the colors. It also used most of the pieces. We have a smaller set so we cant build huge things. I though it was nifty.



Chris posed for me and held it so I could take pictures.

Chris made the froggy. Also took the picture. It's really cute though. Well it was, we took it apart. Heh. But nifty. It's an interesting builder type toy. Like legos but flat.



This next thing is a weird drink we found. It's called 'Children's Drink'. We have no idea what it is. We suspect Ginger ale or Root beer. Japanese people call it Ginger Beer which could be anything! Who knows. It's a smaller picture because its from my cellphone.


It has a cute little lable on it. We are going to try some soon. I will let you know how it goes!