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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Monday, October 30, 2006
Preston is a star!!
Ok, the suspense is over - I'll tell you about Preston's ad! It was actually a print ad, not a tv ad (but he is shortlisted for a tv ad to be filmed sometime later.). The ad has something to do with babyfood, but they didn't really talk about how it was going to be or what they would do with Preston's pictures. I should have a copy of the ad soon and i'll post it here.
Preston had lots and lots of photos taken chewing on all sorts of objects (like my phone and a remote, both of which are his favourite toys!), so perhaps there is a series of ad, I'm not sure so we will all have to wait.
It was a fun morning, and Preston was given a bag of presents (yay!) and some Pumpkin Patch vouchers (also yay!) as payment for his cuteness :)
Anyway, here are a couple of cute photos of Preston helping himself to the baby food. He had such a great time being the centre of attention!
Preston had lots and lots of photos taken chewing on all sorts of objects (like my phone and a remote, both of which are his favourite toys!), so perhaps there is a series of ad, I'm not sure so we will all have to wait.
It was a fun morning, and Preston was given a bag of presents (yay!) and some Pumpkin Patch vouchers (also yay!) as payment for his cuteness :)
Anyway, here are a couple of cute photos of Preston helping himself to the baby food. He had such a great time being the centre of attention!
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Monday, October 16, 2006
Monday, October 09, 2006
Preston's Photo Shoot
At long last, here are the very cute proofs from the cool photo shoot we had in Whangarei last month. If anyone wants a proper copy of any photos, let me know so I can order them. I think it was about $60 for a 5x8 or maybe 6x9, can't remember.
Click on any of the images (of 6) to see it bigger.
Preston is so cute!!!
Click on any of the images (of 6) to see it bigger.
Preston is so cute!!!
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Japan trip - last day
Oops - I forgot to finish off our holiday blog and people are wondering if we actually made it back!
On our last day, we did a last minute shopping expedition at the big outlet mall right near our hotel and ate non-japanese food (we were a bit over it all by then). Actually, the night before was our best shopping time - we decided to go for a big walk to a supermarket I had seen from the bus when we first arrived (we needed more nappies since Preston had just about used up the entire supply we brought with us). It was a big hypermarket at the top of a shopping centre that we didn't know about and we went crazy and bought things at nearly every shop! Including KFC - YUK, I accidentally ended up getting a teriyaki chicken burger - bleech! Lucky they had some pretend macaroni cheese thing to wash it down with.
After all this shopping plus all the game show goodies, our suitcases were full to maximum.
We had a couple of hours to pass before we got picked up for the airport so we went to a nearby park. This city is unlike any other in Japan - a quiet pace of life, parks, lots of space.... It was really fun - there were lots of other families playing in the park and we joined in with another little girl and her parents - they couldn't speak english and we couldn't speak japanese, but we got by and our kids played together very cutely :)
Then it was off to the airport where we found our bags were only 100g under the limit before you have to pay excess, so that was lucky! We tried japanese mcdonalds too which was actually really nice. It's been such a long time since i've had mcd's and this stuff tasted good!
The flight home was reasonably uneventful, although Preston wouldn't go to sleep for 3½ hours and cried lots - it gets a bit frustrating when other people try to offer their hints and tips. Eventually he went to sleep for most of the rest of the flight.
Now we are back and i have spent the last few days listing all our game show stuff on ebay, zillion and trademe (already sold a few things to eager bidders!), and getting Preston back to normal. Luckily his appetite returned as soon as we got home and he had normal food again, and at last his rash all over his face and head seems to be disappearing. I think it is either bananas, rice or baby formula so I will experiment over the next couple of weeks.
Preston coped so well being away - we were so impressed. And he missed our cat - he was so excited to see her again! Now he is not so violent to her so she lets him pat her a little bit. He is getting really professional at walking around the place holding into things too. Wont be long before he has that funny infant waddle! The baby sign language thing is also going really well.
That's about it for now. In other interesting news, I am having an unusual cyst removed from somewhere in my abdomen (don't worry, it's all fine and not at all suspicious, just in the way when I carry Preston) which will be on Nov 9.
On our last day, we did a last minute shopping expedition at the big outlet mall right near our hotel and ate non-japanese food (we were a bit over it all by then). Actually, the night before was our best shopping time - we decided to go for a big walk to a supermarket I had seen from the bus when we first arrived (we needed more nappies since Preston had just about used up the entire supply we brought with us). It was a big hypermarket at the top of a shopping centre that we didn't know about and we went crazy and bought things at nearly every shop! Including KFC - YUK, I accidentally ended up getting a teriyaki chicken burger - bleech! Lucky they had some pretend macaroni cheese thing to wash it down with.
After all this shopping plus all the game show goodies, our suitcases were full to maximum.
We had a couple of hours to pass before we got picked up for the airport so we went to a nearby park. This city is unlike any other in Japan - a quiet pace of life, parks, lots of space.... It was really fun - there were lots of other families playing in the park and we joined in with another little girl and her parents - they couldn't speak english and we couldn't speak japanese, but we got by and our kids played together very cutely :)
Then it was off to the airport where we found our bags were only 100g under the limit before you have to pay excess, so that was lucky! We tried japanese mcdonalds too which was actually really nice. It's been such a long time since i've had mcd's and this stuff tasted good!
The flight home was reasonably uneventful, although Preston wouldn't go to sleep for 3½ hours and cried lots - it gets a bit frustrating when other people try to offer their hints and tips. Eventually he went to sleep for most of the rest of the flight.
Now we are back and i have spent the last few days listing all our game show stuff on ebay, zillion and trademe (already sold a few things to eager bidders!), and getting Preston back to normal. Luckily his appetite returned as soon as we got home and he had normal food again, and at last his rash all over his face and head seems to be disappearing. I think it is either bananas, rice or baby formula so I will experiment over the next couple of weeks.
Preston coped so well being away - we were so impressed. And he missed our cat - he was so excited to see her again! Now he is not so violent to her so she lets him pat her a little bit. He is getting really professional at walking around the place holding into things too. Wont be long before he has that funny infant waddle! The baby sign language thing is also going really well.
That's about it for now. In other interesting news, I am having an unusual cyst removed from somewhere in my abdomen (don't worry, it's all fine and not at all suspicious, just in the way when I carry Preston) which will be on Nov 9.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Japan Trip Day 5 - Tokyo Game Show again
We decided to go back for half a day to finish off a few things - Dan wanted to play a couple of the big games which required hours of queue waiting (one game was a 3 hour queue when he joined it), and i wanted to get the extra goodies I missed. So i went for 2 hours and gathered up nearly everything I wanted, and left Dan to wait in his queues.
Then I went shopping in the local mall which was fun except Preston decided to make a scene so we had to take lots of breaks. I bought quite a few clothes and some cute things for Preston. We ran into Dan randomly when he had played his games (and ended up not getting the prize he wanted which was really the reason for waiting).
We all need a rest so we might do some more shopping later. Then we are coming home tomorrow!
Then I went shopping in the local mall which was fun except Preston decided to make a scene so we had to take lots of breaks. I bought quite a few clothes and some cute things for Preston. We ran into Dan randomly when he had played his games (and ended up not getting the prize he wanted which was really the reason for waiting).
We all need a rest so we might do some more shopping later. Then we are coming home tomorrow!
Japan Trip Day 4 - Tokyo Game Show
Well today is the reason we came to Japan, and it didn't let us down. We could see the enormous queue fromo our hotel room forming from breakfast time, and it didn't even open until 10am. So we decided to wait a bit until we went in. With expected crowds of 160,000 people, this was one BIG event, and queues everywhere had times to let you know whether you even bothered waiting.
It was a pretty overwhelming thing to visit. All the stands for each gaming company had 'booth babes' which are pretty young Japanese women who dont wear much - but not in a bad way, more in a cutesy futuristic way. They have a uniform comprising of short, short skirt made of some kind of vinyl in assorted colours to match the company logo, short top that only reveals their tummy, and white shoes of some kind, either kneelength boots, or white heels. Their job is to give out promotion stuff to everyone, AND pose all day long for gamer geeks who want their photo. It's all very weird, but tasteful. At the end of the day, there was a photo session available outside every booth where the 10 or so booth babes at each would line up and pose for 10 minutes of photos. Here is ours:
The whole expo was just enormous and while lots of people took their kids, its not really ideal. The crowds become crushes near big attractions like the Playstation 3 area and it got soooo hot. Luckily lots of booth babes gave out promotional fans which Preston loved, so they kept us cool.
While Dan went on a game playing mission, I went on a hunting and gathering mission for free goodies. I ended up with SOOO MUCH STUFF - lots of useless things that were given out free, and then cooler niknaks that i earned from standing in small queues (15 mins or less) - so obviously the unpopular games - and then pretending that I knew how to play whatever console it was, let alone whatever game in japanese. I did manage to figure out some cool mobile phone games - the phones here are just amazing and you can play really good quality games and even read comics. Mostly, Preston earned me things because the booth babes thought he was so cute and he would smile and point at them, and who could resist??
The other cool spectacle to be seen was that here in Japan there is a hobby called CosPlay (dress-ups). But this is to the extreme - people seriously put a lot of effort into dressing up like anime characters from comics and cartoons. Outside the event halls were heaps of groups of cosplayers posing for anyone who wanted a photo. Here is one:
After 5 hours of crowds, extreme loudness and smelly geeks, we had run out of time to do everything, and there were lots of goodies that I hadn't collected yet. Our feet ached, and my back was tired from carrying Preston in the front-pack all that time. Luckily for us, he slept through quite a bit of the noise so it wasn't too bad.
Check out our Flickr album for lots more interesting sights! http://www.flickr.com/photos/regen/
It was a pretty overwhelming thing to visit. All the stands for each gaming company had 'booth babes' which are pretty young Japanese women who dont wear much - but not in a bad way, more in a cutesy futuristic way. They have a uniform comprising of short, short skirt made of some kind of vinyl in assorted colours to match the company logo, short top that only reveals their tummy, and white shoes of some kind, either kneelength boots, or white heels. Their job is to give out promotion stuff to everyone, AND pose all day long for gamer geeks who want their photo. It's all very weird, but tasteful. At the end of the day, there was a photo session available outside every booth where the 10 or so booth babes at each would line up and pose for 10 minutes of photos. Here is ours:
The whole expo was just enormous and while lots of people took their kids, its not really ideal. The crowds become crushes near big attractions like the Playstation 3 area and it got soooo hot. Luckily lots of booth babes gave out promotional fans which Preston loved, so they kept us cool.
While Dan went on a game playing mission, I went on a hunting and gathering mission for free goodies. I ended up with SOOO MUCH STUFF - lots of useless things that were given out free, and then cooler niknaks that i earned from standing in small queues (15 mins or less) - so obviously the unpopular games - and then pretending that I knew how to play whatever console it was, let alone whatever game in japanese. I did manage to figure out some cool mobile phone games - the phones here are just amazing and you can play really good quality games and even read comics. Mostly, Preston earned me things because the booth babes thought he was so cute and he would smile and point at them, and who could resist??
The other cool spectacle to be seen was that here in Japan there is a hobby called CosPlay (dress-ups). But this is to the extreme - people seriously put a lot of effort into dressing up like anime characters from comics and cartoons. Outside the event halls were heaps of groups of cosplayers posing for anyone who wanted a photo. Here is one:
After 5 hours of crowds, extreme loudness and smelly geeks, we had run out of time to do everything, and there were lots of goodies that I hadn't collected yet. Our feet ached, and my back was tired from carrying Preston in the front-pack all that time. Luckily for us, he slept through quite a bit of the noise so it wasn't too bad.
Check out our Flickr album for lots more interesting sights! http://www.flickr.com/photos/regen/
Japan Trip Day 3
Akihabara - the land of technology. We went to Akihabara earlier in the day and had a good look around before lunch. The place was just amazing, and I (dan) had a fantastic time going into all the toy stores, buying japanese Nintendo DS games, and checking out all the random electronics thats up for grabs.
Preston did really well, and managed to stay patient with us. I think its a little overwhelming for him, cause everywhere we go, its loud and busy, and cause he's constrained to his chair a lot - you can't really let him loose in the big city.
In the evening we went to the Microsoft XBOX 360 Community Party, and met a few of the personalities. It wasn't exactly well run, but we had some food and met some people and got some free stuff. Unfortunately Preston threw up again... so I was a little worried about him... Belinda decided to take him home a little earlier to give him some rest.
Preston did really well, and managed to stay patient with us. I think its a little overwhelming for him, cause everywhere we go, its loud and busy, and cause he's constrained to his chair a lot - you can't really let him loose in the big city.
In the evening we went to the Microsoft XBOX 360 Community Party, and met a few of the personalities. It wasn't exactly well run, but we had some food and met some people and got some free stuff. Unfortunately Preston threw up again... so I was a little worried about him... Belinda decided to take him home a little earlier to give him some rest.
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