The Child of Tennis - Yukimura

Montreal is gorgeous! The tournament doesn't start until the fifth, but since Genichirou and I arrived early, we decided to go sight seeing.

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Vieux Montreal will never not be among my top tourist locations. It's simply gorgeous to walk around and the locals are very friendly. They're all bilingual, French and English, so if you can speak both, you're in their good books ~_^ (Quoting French Poetry is the best way to guarantee yourself being mobbed by old women who think that you're adorable...so maybe not poetry....but speaking french gets you great friends.) And the Place D'Arts is a great place to relax all day. The museums are lovely and the musicians are even better.

Alas, today promises to be busy, so you'll have to tour without me, Genichirou, but I'd suggest Mount Royal Park.

~Seiichi

It was quite tragic. Over the last eight weeks, a huge amount of weeds built up in my garden and my tomatoes had the nerve to die on me. But thanks to Saeki-kun, I managed to replace them with some lovely begonias, in a shade I haven't seen before.

And does anyone know how to keep birds away from plants without hurting them? Most of the fruits on my strawberry plants were damaged by birds, though the plant itself still survives.

I am on a quest to try and convince Sanada to get one of these, but he is quite stubbornly traditional and refuses to give in, despite me bribing him with ginseng oolong tea.

And also, I got a sponsor request by Nike, so I'll be jetting off to America in a week to take part in a photo shoot and formalise the contract with them. It should be pretty fun. I believe that Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams are all sponsored by Nike as well, so I'll be doing a photoshoot with them, most likely.

~Yukimura