Hey, it's Simon. And this is Martina. And we're broadcasting out of Kichuji, Tokyo, Japan,

the homeliest part of Japan. Did you call it the homeliest? Because it's like our home.

Home. Right. And we are finally back now in Japan. We spent almost a month in Canada.

It's about the longest we've, I can't think of another time that we've gone on like a vacation

to Canada for a month. Because for those of you that

don't know, Martina's dad had a very long and very like difficult illness. And every time we went

back to Canada, it was tough. And it was critical usually. Yeah. Sometimes I went back without Simon

just to take care of my dad because my mom was then hospitalized with other issues. And then so it was

constantly like stress. And, you know, I'm not saying that this wasn't a stressful holiday season

because all of us experienced stress during holiday time. It's always stressful in holidays.

But in this case, my dad died on January 4th. So we knew that it was going to be kind of like a

first Christmas without my dad. And my mom had her birthday and then we celebrated

a year's and then my dad died and it kind of seemed like this was going to be rough this was last year

so this year was the first holidays that we were going to spend back home yeah um without your dad

i think it went pretty well i think this was the best christmas we've had it's been it was like

i have mixed feelings of course because I was sad

not to have my dad around and stuff but I tried to think of it from a different perspective which was

my dad is not suffering anymore and my mom is not suffering and my sister and I are not suffering

that my dad is not like sick and dying. We're suffering that we miss him but we were able to kind of be

really positive and and on the day like his, one year anniversary for death, I thought of like a really

neat thing that we could do. We call it like Dad's Way Day. Yeah. So instead of being really

sad and crying, kind of with the spudgy route where I wanted to instead kind of like celebrate

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