The Chuahs invade Tokyo!

It was good to see the Chuah family as they paid a visit to Tokyo... all 5 of them.

After spending several nights at Disneyland, they came over to our place and stayed for 5 nights, leaving this afternoon.

Nicole certainly enjoyed the company of the 3 kids and the apartment was certainly lively, lots of singing, kid's TV programs, running around and of course hand-held video games. I hope they had a good time here in Tokyo and judging by how much they spent and all the Japanese food they ate, it looks like they did.

The Chuahs in Meguro station

That All-Japanese breakfast... McDonalds

Our spare room... after a day

Leonard doing what he loves best...

Passed out... this is what you get for drinking 10 beers for dinner, hardly eating, then chasing it all down with another can of beer at home

H1N1

Maybe I shouldn't complain about boredom in Tokyo, as it turned out, this past week was rather exciting.

On Monday morning Nicole was diagnosed with the dreaded H1N1 influenza virus, the doctor prescribed a 5 day course of Tamiflu... bad idea.

By Monday evening the combination of a high fever and Tamiflu caused her to have horrible nightmares, screaming in terror... as I found out later on the net, Tamiflu apparently has rather nasty neuropsychiatric side effects especially on children.

Anyway the positives of the medication outweighed the negatives and by the next day she was feeling better, by Thursday she was almost completely fine save for a rather throaty cough.

She's all better now and just in the nick-of-time as the Chuahs will be heading to Shinagawa, from Tokyo Disneyland, this Saturday for a 5 day stay. At least we don't have to quarantine Nicole from the other three kids.