Photo A Day Project - Day 1

Decided to try to do the photo-a-day project that I had wanted to do last year. So I took two photos today. One was of the mochi soup we had last night right after midnight. For a Japanese family, we really don't do all the traditional osechi ryoori. But we do usually have ozoni, or mochi soup. I like my mochi without the an (red bean paste), but my dad says eating it with the an is Kumamoto-style (where my grandparents are from in Japan).

Jan and Craig got the mochi from their neighbors, who pound their own mochi every year. That's a cool tradition. My dad said they used to do that when he was young. His cousin and his family also go to see the first sunrise of the new year, which my dad also used to do.

We lost that somehow. Now we just sleep in :)

Got up late and watched the Pasadena Rose Parade on TV. It brought back a lot of memories of when we were there for the 2008 parade that the Kamehameha Band participated in.

And that led to photo #2...in the lead-in to the telecast, whenever the show returned from commercials, they showed this, with the Kamehameha Band from the 2008 parade in the background. With all the bands to choose from over the years, it was great that they selected our band to show!

It's been a quiet day. Darrell is still sick and slept most of the day, and I took a long nap. Ryan and Kylie were playing Rock Band again. Ryan was invited to her house for dinner, so just something light for Darrell (have to force him to eat so he can take his antibiotics) and leftovers for dinner tonight, nothing special.

Have another job interview next week and then heading to Salt Lake City so things are looking up.