A Happy New Year to all of you! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season!

My New Year started off with a bang watching fireworks and a New Year’s Eve party… followed by a beautiful sunny New Year’s Day in Hawaii… The next couple of days I decided to stay around the house to relax and take care of things that were left for such a time…

Tim and I are back in Japan now to prepare more things for the 30th anniversary event and attend the yearly DECO instructor’s party.  There will be nearly 100 instructors and the DECO Japan office staff attending. This should be a lot of fun and a good chance to welcome in the New Year together.

We were happy to see that the 2011 Newsletter was waiting for us when we arrived to the office.  Tim and I have been working on this project for the last 3 years now and find that it can be one of the biggest challenges to complete this during the busiest time of the year; somehow it always works out and we get it done.

This year we added additional pages and translated into both English and Japanese for all to enjoy.  We are in the process of sending this out now and hope you enjoy reading this issue!  Please let us know if you didn’t get your copy and we’ll send it right out to you.

Yukiko