Two Henrys meet for the First Time!

July 3rd 2009

Henry Victor Lukoma and Henry Lukoma Junior met for the first time on July 3rd at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Here you can see all three of us at Haneda and in the last picture that is Henry at Yokohama station waiting for our train home. From here on out we will refer to Henry Victor Lukoma as either Uncle Henry or Kojja. Henry Lukoma Junior will be referred to as Henry-kun.

When Henry-kun first saw his uncle he was still behind glass doors collecting his rather HEFTY lugguage. At first I just saw two bags. A back pack and a small carry on. I was thinking - wow the Lukomas have finally learnt how to travel light! Ummm no. Then came two huge black bags. Henry-kun was staring at his uncle. When his uncle finally came through the doors he ran up to him and his uncle carried him. You can see in the picture he was squirming a little bit. In fact it was quite funny the whole trip home Henry-kun thought his uncle was just a random person. So when we arrived home he just waved good bye to him. He was shocked to see him enter the house with us.

Our trip from Haneda was quite hectic. You can imagine I was carrying Henry-kun on my back and Kojja's bag and my handbag. Then Kojja was carrying two huge black bags. Unfortunately one of the bags with wheels broke. So we couldn't really pull it along. We dashed from Haneda to catch the train to Yokohama. Then at Yokohama we had to change to a local train and finally took a taxi to my place cos the buses had stopped running.

Kojja and I chatted all the way home. Henry-kun fell asleep. Only to madly wake up at Ishikawacho! When we got home Henry-kun insisted he wanted a shower. He stripped down to his diapers and demanded a shower. So while I was running Kojja a bath - Henry-kun had a shower. Then we ate a delicious noodle and vegetable stir fry. Sadly my special Gateau au Chocolat which I had specially made for Kojja went bad overnight. Apparently in the summer cakes need to be refriegerated. Luckily I had also made some banana bread so Kojja feasted on that.

We stayed up chatting til the sun came up. All I could think was - WOW two Henrys in Tokyo!

And kojja looks exactly the same. He still even has his dimples. I couldn't sleep cos I was so excited. But I knew Saturday was going to be a very busy Day!