I turned 25 this week! Time passes by so fast.

Anyway, the best thing about being 25 is...

My husband :) We got married !
Some years ago Yoshi&I got our first rings on my birthday, so we thought it's a nice thing to marry on the same day.

Sadly there was a combination of unlucky happenings...although the weather was really nice the whole week (today we have 28C° in Tokyo!), only on my birthday it was raining and cold as crazy XD Another bad point was the terrible service at the registry office...it took more than four hours...
Normally it takes 20 minutes. Of course we were already prepared that it may takes a little bit longer for an international marriage since they have to check various papers...but every single official had no clue about anything...
Additionally I got sick the night before my birthday...I'm still fighting hard against my coughing and so I have to take some days off from work -_-
But even though not all things were as perfect as we have planned...I had a wonderful day.
Yoshi tried so hard to and I'm blessed having such a sweet husband :)


At the weekend we both went out to get my birthday present: I finally got myself a nice camera with a fast shutter and good lens. I love taking photos and I was always thinking to get one...and now it's my favourite toy XD

I only use the photos for my blog, Facebook or family and so I wanted to have something compact with high quality. Just as hobby&since I reduce the photo size anyway I was looking for a small type ~ After spending three hours in various shops I decided to get me the Olympus Pen :)

I can't wait to go out and take some nice photos. A big THANK YOU! to Yoshi&my family :x

Yoshi's mother sent me some money& a sweet card ♥

So many beautiful flowers...I'm more than happy♥

Filling out the paper stuff...

Our paper ~

Waiting, waiting, waiting...but we met a sweet little friend :)

 

And then our dinner...I have never eaten so many tasty things...
Due to my cold I wasn't able to eat as much as I wanted (;_;)
Well, Yoshi enjoyed his double portions XD

The whole restaurant for just the two of us ~~ nice!

 

I was so happy about the roses... (;_;)

The day before my birthday Yoshi played with my camera. Peko was his first victim.
And then I...

I like this one a lot :)

Next week we have to visit Shinagawa for my visa application. It takes one month to get the spouse visa...and my old visa ends in July. We have to hurry ^^"
After that I have to register our marriage in Germany...and then start to prepare for the wedding parties in September&December  ~ busy, busy...but I'm looking forward to it so much ^^

And now: Relaxing in bed ~25 years old and nothing has changed XD   Except my family name...

Because happy Peko is happy XD XD

Another week has passed by...

It's getting hotter day by day ~ a very great thing for the ice cream loving monster inside me XD
A bad thing for hair stylings and long work days...

Anyway, I may won't return to Germany in summer since the air plane tickets from Tokyo are too expensive...the funny (and also annoying) thing: All tickets from GERMANY to Tokyo aren't expensive at all...I really don't get it.
Since Steffi and my Japanese friends will return home, I may have a lot of free time in those three weeks...well, I will see! We need to prepare for the wedding so maybe it won't be as boring as I imagine now.

We also set a date for our wedding in Germany. We will make a small wedding party in a hotel close to my home town to celebrate with my German friends and family just after Christmas this year.

It's my birthday next week. Since we will visit the registry office to hand in the papers for our wedding, we are thinking to do something on our day off on the day before.

Anyway, today we had the fitting of the wedding dress&Yoshi's suit. I love my dress...
In the photo shooting next month and also on my German wedding the dresses will be different ones, so in total I will have three wedding dresses...plus three kimono. Hard job to change...
I'm not sure which dress I love at most, because all of them are beautiful and somehow special... here is a little preview since I don't want to show the total of the dress before the ceremony in September ;) 
I just can say that L. was totally right: Simple and lady-like is the best ~~

I simply love it...but it's really heavy XD I hope I can survive...it'll be still so hot
in September...

Before...

After...

My mother's name XD

My name XD

Korean lunch...much love!

Bye Bye Golden Week...

Even though I didn't do anything special, I enjoyed my week off a lot. The ice cream season has started and of course we already enjoyed some sweet love outside in the sun :)
I finally entered the public health insurance of Japan (which was pretty complicated...). Up to today I just had my travel insurance back in Germany. Things are getting serious :)

Next Monday we will already have the fitting of my wedding dress and Yoshi's suit. And we need to visit the German embassy for the translation of my impediment certificate.

I also tried to find a cheap flight back to Germany to visit my family for a week but somehow everything in August is incredible expensive....don't know if I should go back or save the 2000€ and stay in Japan....

♥ Tomorrow Bridal Fair in Odaiba together with Steffi...hope the weather will be nicer...

It seems rain and grey clouds will cover the last days of Golden Week   (;_;)

Tomorrow I will make a small shopping day with Eri and on Friday Steffi&I have to visit the Bridal Fair of Hotel Nikko. In this event I can peek on various decorations&other stuff for my wedding...it's an event especially for the best friend&the bride and I'm really looking forward to it. Afterwards we are thinking to hang out in Odaiba.

Yesterday Yoshi&I wanted to visit Enoshima, but sadly the weather was very cloudy...although it was warm, we changed our plan and just hang out in Yoyogi Park. It was a nice relaxing day...at night we watched some DVDs and ate tasty muffins.
I hope the weather will be better on Monday next week...I really want to have a nice beach day with beautiful spring weather. Going there in summer is really really hot which means we can't take Peko with us...