POW #43 – Metro Fashion

I guess these girls are to the Moscow Metro as the Harajuku Girls are to the Tokyo Metro.

I knew the moment that I saw them, they would be a POW…

POW #42 – Hoa and her Dad

I don’t know Hoa, the bride, very well… In fact I met her for the very first time when she came to our table at the reception.

But she is wonderfully sweet and I couldn’t pair my good old ASUCD friend with any other girl.

Here she is looking gorgeous on her father’s arm.

What a blast the quick trip back up north was! It was as if the seven years since college hadn’t even passed.

More pics here.

POW #41 – Smoldering

Pablo often says that he lives in a “transition” area – right between the waterfront rich and the ghetto.

I think this picture is telling of the “rich” and “ghetto”:

A late-model Jaguar still smoldering in the D.C. cold… a couple of blocks from Pablo’s condo.

POW #40 – Nigiri

Christmas Eve with our two families is always sushi night.

This year, my ‘rents hosted it at their house, and my mom made the nigiri-zushi.

Visible here, from the back (l-r): uni, hamachi, tataki, sake, ama-ebi. Front: tamago, maguro, tako.

I could use some right about now….

POW #39 – The Okui’s

Here, my Aunt and Uncle stand in front of the famous Shirakawa-go huts.

This was the last weekend that I saw my Uncle, some 6 months back. Sadly, he passed away a few hours ago, on his 65th birthday.

I’m forever thankful for having the opportunity to vacation in Japan with him, and remember the last time we said goodbye.

:’(