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Shark Reef Aquerium 
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This guy entertained and posed for us ウインク


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Octopus is always fun to watch. It looks soooo fresh! Sashimi ニヒヒ寿司

Funny face爆笑オバQ おばけくん


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A boy just came in my view プンプン
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Luxor
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That's all for our 2016 Las Vegas Trip. Heading home now 飛行機
We were supposed to go to Golden Nugget to experience Shark tank slide, but we found out that they are not open in winter timeショボーン We managed to get a refundニコニコ 
Our hotel was definitely lacking X'mas ornaments, but the room is alright for the price we paid. 
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The best thing was a TV inside of mirror テレビ
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Finally disclosing our hotel name. Mandalay Bay. 
Michael Jackson's cirque de solleil is performed here.
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In stead of Shark Tank, we decided to stay in our hotel's aquarium until the flight time.  Coming up next イルカタコ宇宙人

Walking back to our hotel wasn't too bad being sober 爆笑
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Fashion mall's roof. Ken likes this kind of architectures. I like watching flowers more Lol 赤薔薇
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I think I saw this motorcycle about 20 years ago somewhere?! 
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We happened to catch a little Christmas dancing show. 
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I am on diet, but this place looked so good. I couldn't resist it! Ice cream waffle with coffee コーヒー It is very European resembling shops in Tokyo. Yummy!
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We walked by fake structures of Europe. We saw real ones, but still impressive. 
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More X'mas decorations! I love Wynnピンクハートラブラブ I should've reserved this hotel when Ken recommended it... He performs in Las Vegas sometimes and knew this hotel was one of the best. 
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Everywhere is picturous カメラ
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We had light snacks at Jardin. At the enterance, we were trying to take our selfies, and a lady offered to take our photos. I thought she was working for the restaurant, but later I found out she was just passing by. What a kind and nice lady! She is beautiful inside and out お願い and took a great photo. Because of lights, we had to angle our heads weird, but this still became my favorite shot! Most of our shots are selfies. 
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Inside the restaurant is also classyグッ
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I love the flower arrangements. They are all real. 
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We started our second day in Las Vegas at Sea Breeze Cafe. Ken already started drinkingキョロキョロ
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Today we tried to go to the shopping mall without taking a cab. Trying to save 札束, we took trams from hotel to hotel and we couldn't reach the destination 爆笑 We gave up at Ceasers palace, but we saw many things on the way. 
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Finally we found nice X'mas decorations: Bellagio Garden クリスマスツリークリスマスベルサンタ
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Ceiling is beautiful おねがい At the same time I was angry at our hotel, which is so poor at X'mas decorations プンプン
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We caught the fountain show.
This is another chocolate shopバレンタイン
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Restaurants were so crowded. We didn't feel like standing in a line. Only real expensive restaurant was less crowded and we chose there. In this kind of restaurants, we are supposed to order appetizer, salad or soup, main dish, and desert, but we ordered only one main each, still filled us up. 
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I love this restaurant! It's called Rao's.
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Ceasers palace got bigger adding shopping malls and restaurants. Inside fake sky was impressiveびっくり
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The biggest H&M I've ever seen!
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Kenny wanted to go to this bar 生ビール It offered a complimentary champagne with a purchase of an alchol beverage. He drunk my wine and champagne, too. That's where we gave up on going to the shopping mall 笑い泣き This is the mirror on the ceiling. 
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Ken likes simple steel design of Aria hotel. My drunk hasband wanted to go there and keep drinking. Look at him. He is yawning!
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At night, outside looks nicer with lights. 
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Merry Christmas! We are in Vegas! 
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I expected to see more gorgeous X'mas lights here, but our hotel kinda sucks プンプン Because we don't gamble, we don't know what to do here Lol. It's been almost 20 years since last time I was in Vegas. All Cirque de solleil shows are super expensive and almost sold out, we decided to go see a musical Rock of Ages last minute ルンルンギターBefore the show, we had X'mas dinner at an Indian restaurant. What we wanted was a nice booth and a not crowded place and it was perfect! We found a big Kiss shop with a mini golf and volks wargen. 
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We got the same day deal and paid less, but we got good seats. I don't see musicals much, but this one was fun because I know almost all the songs and musicians are actually playing on the stage. They don't allow photographs. 
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And I was mostly looking at guitar players. They are great performers and play was perfect. This guy was great!
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I got so impressed because he was controlling volume sooooo well, but later Ken told me it was done by a soundman 笑い泣き yes I almost forgot it because I control my volume by myself and never depend on soundmen. Still he was amazingウインクIt looked like he was tuning by himself, too. Those are usually done by roadies. Each note he played was perfect for the scene. 
Today I hope we can see nicer Christmas lights.  

Happy Thanksgiving! Coughing coughing カゼ We are in LA having a mini vacation. Because I've got a cold, we couldn't do too many activities. We decided to go to Queen Mary. It was more interesting than I thought. 
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Engine room was interesting!
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Amazing the telecommunications have improved quite a bit.
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Next day, after picked up my guitar from the repair shop, we went to LA Zoo. They had 50 year  anniversary Christmas lights event going on. I wasn't too excited about the lights and they were exactly as I expected, not too exciting えー. I just wanted to walk after eating. Japanese food in LA is great. We ate too much てへぺろ
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Raindeer. We will see big ones in Finnland next year!
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Today we looked for a nice beach side restaurant and went to Manhattan beach and Venice beach.
I bought him a nice hat ウインク
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Finally we found a restaurant on Pacific coast hwy, called Gladstone. Since turkey is not our favorite, we just ordered one Thanksgiving course and shared it. The plate is almost empty てへぺろ
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It was nice Thanksgiving.











22 years ago, November 9th was the saddest day of my lifeえーんMy mom went to heaven. It is 22 years ago, but Japanese Buddhist way they count 23 years. Coincidentally Ken's mom passed away two days earlier in 2010, and his father's date is November 8th. Every year November comes close, I feel sad and this year is not an exceptionショボーン I usually go to Japan around this time of year, but I didn't this year. I feel very guilty. She was a young woman. She just turned 52. The picture below is probably my age or younger. She was always beautifulおねがい
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I was such a bad girl when I was a teenager. I wish I could make her happier when she was alive. I was thinking what I can do to make my mom happy in heaven while I was praying for her today. I used to think I should make a lot of efforts to live life fullest, but now I think enjoying my life which was given by my mom is more important. I couldn't really laugh for more than a dacade, but I think I should be happier. I am not lonely because Ken is by my side. Besides my band is doing great and getting high paying gig offersグラサン Ever since Bikers gig, I don't get tense as much (that was the biggest audience ever). A lot of things happening. 
America chose a new president yesterday. 
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Also yesterday, my birth city, Hakata got a huge sinkhole ガーン 
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Good that nobody was injured. We are alive. Live life fullest and enjoy every moment. If I can send a message to my mom in heaven, I want to say "thank you for giving a birth to me. I love you, momピンクハート". She is always in my heartニコニコ
I went to see Mr. Big. I have seen them many times since 80s. This band is the reason why I am still in America. I don't have many opportunuties to boast my love story, so I write hereニヤリ  I almost cried when they played "To Be With You" last night because it is like our wedding song. 

Yes, Eric Martin is our match maker! When I met my husband, he was playing with Eric Martin about 16 years ago. I was still a student. Last semester in UC Berkeley, I saved tuition by getting scholarship and bought a car and drove to Eric's concert. My husband talked to me after the gig and we fell in love. At the beginning of our relationship, I went every his gig and heard this song over and over again. It was like a dream to hang out with Eric in back stages because I was a big fan of Mr. Big. 
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Because Ken was playing in the other place last night, I had to go to the concert by myself. I am glad that I joined a working band. I knew many people there so I wasn't alone. When I was in high school, I knew most of musicians in my city in Japan. Now I feel like after staying almost half of my life in USA, I finally know musicians here. I was always following Ken and recognized as his wife, but now I am recognized as a guitar player グラサン 
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Paul! He is one of my guitar heros. Interestingly I noticed some mistakes he made last night. Before I play guitar seriously, I'd never be able to tell. I don't have to be too hard on myself ニコニコ 

This year is our 15 year anniversary. We went through walk in wedding in city hall on Valentine's Day. On this year's our anniversary day, we spent time in Rockbar. This place used to be a casino/restaurant and the place of our marriage proposal. Rockbar was moving their location to Reno, the Valentine's Day was the last concert at that location. Coincidentally Eric Martin was the headliner! After the concert, we said hi to Eric and he still remembered my husband's nick name, champagne! 

 I live in USA long enough. I started to feel like this is my home town.

Since when I was a teenager, becoming a rockstar was my dream. Of course this occupation is almost impossible, but we were rockstars two nights ago!  We traveled 5 hours to the biggest little city in the world to play for a bike festival. 
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We played one night before in another festival and drove directly. It was my first experience to be on tour with a band. Finishing the gig around midnight and checked in the hotel at almost 4am. I am insomniac whenever I share a room with somebody other than my family. I couldn't sleep at all!!! Plus I didn't play well that night, so I super worried about having a foggy brain while on the biggest stage we had ever played on. However it went very well! They prepared the prime spot for us and the crowds were amazing! Probably this is the biggest crowds I had ever played for. They were so supportive and totally into music! That relaxed me and I felt like I was dancing with them on the stage. 
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During a break, I was stoked that my guitar hero Claudeous and his wife Kas, an amazing singer, came to watch us because they were playing on a couple of blocks away. I wanted to see them play, but we couldn't make it to their show, signing autographs and taking pictures with fans afterwards. Later we found out that Night Ranger was playing near us. Probably we had more crowds than their show. We were lucky ウインク
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Right after our show, fireworks went on! How cool!!! The more I stress out and regret doing this before a show, the better the result is. It was the toughest gig with traveling, but I had so much fun! I won't forget how awesome I felt playing guitar on that stage. It was one of the most exciting event in my life おねがい