Two Parties, Journal

The first party was Self Making Sushi Party for Devon Church Puppeteer Group

These Puppeteers are not Japanese, so they don’t eat Sashimi fish.  It is good for Hiroko.  At least Hiroko prepared cooked with soy sauce and sugar canned Unagi (eel) and Saba (mackerel), canned Shake (salmon) crumbs, cooked shrimp, and crab meat, and many vegetable, 

such as cucumber, green onion, and spinach for sushi.  Hiroko made Tofu and green onion soup.  One of the young girl can’t eat Nori (seaweed), so she was eating Tamale and Spam Musubi (rice-ball).  Hiroko should take photos how they made the sushi.

This is Birthday cake for everybody, so there were six candles on the cake.  One of the girls became 21 a week ago.  She said, “Now, I can officially drink alcohol.”  Her elder sister wanted to taste margarita, and brought tequila, so Hiroko bought margarita juice.  Three of us enjoyed drinking.  Well, not three of us, only two of us.  The girl just became 21 couldn’t drink.  She said she didn’t like alcohol because it did not taste like juice.

These four girls and one boy came to this party.  They are willing to put puppet show any time.

In couple of week, there will be a Thanksiving Worship Service in Devon Church.  These girls will again do the puppet show called “Grateful Leper” based on the Bible story from Luke 7:11-19, and one more.

Luke 7:11-19  Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy  ¹¹ Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.  ¹² As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a 

distance ¹³ and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”  ¹⁴ When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.  ¹⁵ One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud 

voice.  ¹⁶ He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.  ¹⁷ Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?  ¹⁸ Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”  ¹⁹ Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.” 

Based on these pictures, Hiroko will make patchwork pictures and decorate the puppet stage.

Hiroko missed to post the blog about the puppet group party previous week, because too busy making this Christmas tree skit for Lisa’s Bday dinner.

Charlie Brown and Christmas tree.

One week after the Puppet group party, Lisa’s Bday was celebrated.

Lisa’s requesting Tonkatsu (pork cutlet) with curry were served as main.  There were many other dishes, Saba no miso-ni (mackerel cooked with Miso), vegetable with shrimp, sausage, spinach goma-ae (spinach mixed with grated sesame seeds), and one more vegetable dish.

This is Lisa’s B-day cake.  How old are you?

Starting the dinner with Dan-san’s prayer

Here is Lisa and Dave

Lisa’s cousin, Steven/Amanda

 sister Elsa/Richard












Having wonderful time to eat, to drink, and to talk, talk, talk the night, especially the night was changed summer time, so everyone could sleep one extra hour.