To celebrate our wedding anniversary,  we went to Saipan

It was only 3 hours flight from Narita airport so we didn’t get tired with flight at all and had lots of energy to enjoy this trip! This trip was supposed to be relaxing trip, but it was not like that as always we do…

Grand Saipan Hotel, view from the room

First day, we took a submarine cursing tour It was my first time to do such a cool tour! Water is really clean and blue! You can really see many fishes and coral reeves!

We got inside of the submarine!

nice photo, isn’t it?

it was so fun! Thank you

First dinner was @ Tony Roma’s! I wanted huge ribs

it was delicious

Second day was Snorkeling time!

it was not so deep around this area so fishes and corals are close to you! I feed the fishes with a piece of bread!

Second dinner was @Hard rock cafe

Third day, we went to Saipan Botanical garden! I saw many kinds of strange plants! It was very interesting

@ Saipan Botanical garden

It was wonderful trip! I would like to come back again to Saipan!!!!

Our first day in Disney Resport was to visit to Animal kingdom and Magic kingdom. Magic Kingdom is similar to Disney land in LA and in Japan so it was nothing new for me. BUT Animal kingdom was exciting

Shuttle buses took us to Animal Kingdom.

  Everywhere is Mickey!!

  
We had still a lot of energy before entering to Animal Kingdom

 some performance

 first lunch at Restaurantosaurus, yay yay

  
attraction, “Dinosaur”

  
funny hat collections again…which one do you like?!

  
we went to kilimanjaro safaris with FastPass (FP)!

  
Next is “Kali River Rapid” Of course, we got soaked so much!!!

  hahaha

then we saw parade!

it was so fun

We went to Orlando (FL, USA) for our 5th anniversary! We stayed at Disney Resort hotel and enjoyed Disney world!! Of course, we bought the cheapest flight so we had to transfer twice in Frankfurt and Washington DC. We had also bad luck…The thunderstorm was coming so we needed to wait for a while in New York…We got stuck in the plane. Well, actually i should say that was very good luck! Because we could see the space shuttle launch from our plane. It looked exactly like in the video from 3000 meters in the sky from the plane!

When we arrived in Orlando, it was already at late night. For first day, we just checked in hotel and rested a bit for next day!

we took a bus from Otaniemi at 6am!

I was sleepy even I took a cup of coffee

Mr.A was so happy after having a glass of beer at Helsinki airport

at Frankfurt airport

let’s go to Orlando, yay

On the second day, it was just for shopping You know, US has always good deals and tons of brands! So we went to two Outlet malls which I LOVE, and one BIG shopping mall (Florida mall)! OMG, I bought many MAC cosmetics and cute clothes!

I put some makeup for shopping day

Happy jumps

hahaha which jums do you like?

In front of our hotel, there was a trolley stop which takes us to both outlet malls.

green trolley was the first trolley. so many restaurants, bars and shops!

You kwow what? So many Lizards were in this area, hihihi

We went to Orlando premium outlets first.

Then, we went to Prime outlet!

It was just nice day so we played around a bit

Orlando shopping mall

M&M

funny hat

dinner at Crab House. It was very tasty =)

Here is my diary about August 11 and 12th.

Since we took a looong flight from Helsinki, our first day was just sleeping like a bear or Tororo. I remember that even the housekeeping lady was coming inside, we did not wake up,hihihi. It was almost 15pm Of course, we got so hungry, so we went out to the small town ,”Laie”.

 finally woke up, and smiled @ hotel ” Turtle bay resort”

 Laie!

  looking at the map….Yeah, we got lost in the small town,boke nasu

There was some restraunt and market. Our first dinner was Chinese foods. It was quite big and heavy. I was forgetting about the fact that American foods is very big portion and heavy. The taste and price was decent. It was all right. Anyway, we were eating like hunger I did not care abour the taste. I just cared about the mount!

 cute flowers @ Laie

 sunset @ Laie

That was about it on the first day in Hawaii.

 Oahu island

On August 12th, there is a Dole plantation where is a pineapple field. We took a bus from Turtle bay resort to the Dole plantation. The bus driver was Very friendly, and he was talking to us a lot. Also, he gave us some chewing-gum! I felt very strange, because the driver in Finland is very unfriendly, and never talked to me…In Japan, the bus driver sometimes talk and chat with the people as well. After 40 minutes, I got noticed that the smell of air was so sweat like candy You can small so sweat after you get off the bus immediately! It was nice.

 Red Hair and rock’n roll bird!

  Welcome to Dole Plantation!

 Entrance

Also, a field of grand is reddish, because of the vocanic mountains around. The view was so cute around the plantation!!

 Follow the sign to go to Tokyo!

First, we got in the Pineapple Express that went around the field for 20 minutes. I never seen like that many Pineapple were growing in the field.

   Are U ready?

   View from Pineapple Express

Then, we took a tour of Plantation Garden. There were so many flowers for my first time to see. My favorite flowers was Hibiscus. In this garden, there were pink, red, yellow, and white Hibiscus. It was very pretty 

 

 

  Pineapples

   we planted the Pineapple to the field

Finally, we tasted Pineapple soft-cream and juice at Dole Plantation OMG, it was yammy My impression of Hawaiian foods…Of course, it’s Great From the second day, I was beginning to like Hawaii so much.

 If you eat too much Pineapple, next day is…..

Then, there is another tourist place is called North Shore. I think the place is famous for surfers. We went shopping and had a lunch there. I tasted the Hawaiian style of pork dishes. It was very similar with some kind of Japanese foods.

The weather was very nice at that time. But the Harricane was coming to Hawaiian islands. For that reason, we decided to have fun as much as possible before on Wednesday. According to the forecast, that week of Wednesday would be the worst day so…

You know, in Hawaii everyone is wearing the Hawaiian shirt.

  Sign from the toilet

I was busy lately, so I could not have time to upload for my Hawaian trip

Now, my next trip is waiting as usual, so I will try to finish up until next Friday!!

First of all, the flight was very long from Finland to Honolulu. Imagine that I had to have three tickets and it took 27 hours with transit time, Wow wow  Helsinki–>Frankfurt–>Sanfrancisco–>Honolulu

 Three tickets at the same time

 Ready for the trip!

We did not take a same flight, so Andreas went first and arrived in Hawaii first as well.

 Bye bye Andreas Have a nice flight! 

My back was killing me after all…

Anyway, my diary of Hawaiian is starting now.

On May 9th, we went back to Boston from Canada without any problems All of us got a lot of energy from Niagara Falls to survive for the rest of year! The flight was only 1 hour, was very short

At the same day, we visited to Museum of Fine Arts. After 4 or 5pm on Wednesday, the admission fee is free for everyone. Yay, we saved 17 bucks for each I had been visiting there many times, but the collections are very interesting. I did not mind visiting that museum more. Especially, the Egyptian are good. And they have many Japanese collections, and even the Japanese garden outside of the museum Visiting at the museum was our art class,hehehe

in front of MFA

inside

There were a couple of the paintings from El Greco which I saw many of his in Toledo, Spain:) Those paintings were reminded me about my honeymoon memory

El Greco

Claude Monet

Then, the last day of staying in Boston, on May 10th, we enjoyed with our time as much as we could in Boston. Boston Common (park) was our first stop and a place with beautiful scenery. Many flowers were opened. My mom likes flowers very much, so she loved this place. My sister likes playing with animals. There were many squirrels and ducks. She loved this place, too. Boston has four seasons so you can enjoy with seasonal scenery each season

Next, we did a little bit walking along with Freedom Trail. If you follow with the red line, this line guide with the historical place. But it has 4 km(2,5miles)…We went inside of some museums

Then, it was shopping time Oh no, I could not going shopping…because I was suffering with excitement of shopping for a long time ,even with window shopping… But I filled up with satisfaction from this trip. Now I was ready to suffer one more time

Really really last day…it was the time to leave Boston, and say good-bye to my family. Their flight was at noon, and mine was around 6pm. But I went to the airport with them, and waited for a long time there alone Well, that was my Boston trip diary.

->->->Byebye

But…when I arrived to Helsinki, my husband was sleeping and did not pick me up According to him, he set up the alarm, but he did not wake up and continued sleeping…hahaha. **Yeah, that is my husband

Lately, I have been taking one summer course with Andreas. This week is the last week, but we have to finish our project by the last day of June. We are going to travel from July so…I am going back to Japan for one month, and Andreas is going to california for one week. Then after the US trip, he is also coming to Japan.

On May 6th, Andreas had to go back to Finland. In the morning, we went to Trinity church for sightseeing. But everyone was hungry…so that I took all to my favorite place, Sushi restaurant(Shino express) in Boston. They have a good deal with a lunch menu,hehehe. We had lot of suchi there and got ready for sightseeing.

inside

outside

Reflection**The mirror building is called John Hancock Building.
It is the tallest building in this area, New England.

Boston Public library

Andreas went to the airport, after we said Bye-bye to him.

My sister wanted to go to Museum of science, so we went to the museum. This museum has IMAX and I knew that my sister would like it We chosed this film “Grand CanYon” since we’ve never been there. One thing I like most in the USA is that everything is so big I think that is nice because I am not used to seeing a big screen,museum,etc…

found R2D2—>
This is a mailbox, peace

My guess was correct. They love that museum,hihihi. After that , I took them to the shopping mall close to that museum. The place is called galleria mall where is the biggest mall in Boston area. At this mall, me and my mother bought a pair of sandals. Those sandals are for this summer

**If you like to go shopping, I think Boston is better than NYC. In Boston, the tax is 5%,but in NYC is 8,625% now. Good thing in Boston is that there is no tax less than 175USD for clothes and foods**

Next day, we were going to Canada!

Yes, my trip to Poland is coming in 2 weeks I am so excited about it, so I have to finish my previous trip diary, hehehe.

I talked with my parents by Skype today. One of my cousins is going to have a wedding party. He lives in Aomori located in the north part of Japan. At least, we can take a short trip in Japan this summer Omedeto-de arimasu.

On May 4th, I took my mother and sister, Kyoko, to my school and got the ticket for my commencement. I showed the library, Curry student center, and some classrooms where I was taking classes
My mother was impressed with my school because the classrooms were very nice, the university was large and nice. I never expected that my family member would visited to my school during my school time. I was really happy at that moment

The building behind us was my department, Department of Chemistry.

My mom and a school building

Then, I took all to Boston Duck Tours. I have done with this tour once when I was a student. It is similar with a tour guide. The difference is to drive in Charles River!

Map of Boston. The red line is a route of Ducktour

Our guide. He was so funny.

Well, I thought this was good idea to show the city of Boston, but everyone was so tired still. They were falling asleep during this tour OMG, it was very expensive place to take a nap, hahaha. Anyway, it was very fun tour After one week, you will receive a picture from them.

not sleeping YET —-> Oops

This is the pic I received

Me and our tour Duck

*Trinity church* *Boston Common*

more pictures

And we went to Quincy market for shopping. There was a boy played a drum and he was cool!

That was a kind of all what we did on that day. We went to the same pizza shop for dinner and prepared fot the next day

On May 4th, finally that day was my commencement. I did not participate in this ceremony last year, because that day we had our wedding party in Mexico. BUT I really attend this. I arranged with my school from this February. It was very strange feeling for me. Even though I finished my degree, I was felling like still continuing studying

In the morning @ hostel

Taking a photo by myself.Just before the commencement.

That day, I was wearing a cap and gown all day long to be a NEU commencement girl! Even when I was at the Italian restaurant,hihihi.

kampai:)

Now my feeling is like I am completely ready for my next step

The ceremoney held in the TD Banknorth Garden , whcih is a huge area. The Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins (NHL) play there. It was very good memory for rest of my life. During the ceremoney, my mind reminded me about my memories I had in US like my friends, professors, classmates, etc…I will never forget about this time in US.

~~**I thank you for my parents to supported me a lot again **~~

Hola Amigos,

Now I am in Mexico. I decided to write my diary here. When I was writing my travel diary from Spain, I was almost forgetting Hope you enjoy my loong trip diary this time, hihihi.

On April 18th, I woke up at 3am and got ready for my traveling. Oh it was horrible because it was Too early for me. At the Vantaa airport, there were very few people around 4am. You know, lately the airport is very strict. You can’t take a lot of liquid so it is so hard for me because I love to take a lot of my stuff with me…Anyway we passed through without any problems. The flight was on time and only a couple of hours to get in Paris. The airport in Paris was so huge.

Empty airport

Nice Chairs for relaxing!

Good morning with smile

Nice service, thanks Air France.

It was my first time to sit on the second floor. It was more comfortable and space for my legs.

After 7.5 hours flight, We reached in Boston!Long flight was killing my neck and back. Also the time difference. Andreas was walking with sleeping face. We just went to the shopping center and had a dinner there. I have not seen the American foods for a long time ,so my stomach was surprising with the foods. Also I bought my favorite cosmetics

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Just normal shopping center

After shopping and dinner, we came back to the airport to sleep. Since our next flight was very early, our hotel were the airport seats,hehehe.