Summer & Tyler

When we first met, Tyler's interest in the Japanese culture is partially why I was so attracted to him. He traveled to Japan in 2004 and taught himself Japanese. I try not to get too hung up on the fact that his last girlfriend was Chinese and the one before that was hapa (half Japanese) too. I think it's pretty endearing that it interests him that much, and thankfully for me he believes he got a super great deal when he married me :). We'd love to go to Japan, but with my short amount of vaca time we'd rather go another year when we can spend a couple weeks to a month there. So when my friend Debbie told me about the festival, Ty was just as excited as I was. We enjoyed my heritage and topped it off with some nummy sushi after at our favorite place. We learned about Buddhism at the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, watched a martial arts demonstration, and my favorite part...people watched.