he said, she said

it wasn’t much like the images that “meet the fockers” brings to mind, but mike and i finally got our parents together to meet each other for the first time! we took them to dinner at banana leaf in milpitas. the food left much to be desired, but the company was good and the conversation was lively.

mr. and mrs. tanaka are sooo different from my parents that i wondered what they would talk about at dinner =P not surprisingly, a lot of the conversation was centered around our upcoming wedding and travel plans for hawaii. my parents will explore the area, work on their suntans, and cook meals together in the house that they rented. mrs. tanaka will spend time with family who she doesn’t see often, and mr. tanaka plans to golf — a lot.

as different as they are, our parents have one very important thing in common — they love and support mike and me. they give their opinions and advice without being overbearing or demanding. and they offer guidance, but ultimately allow us to live our own lives and have the wedding that we want. yay parents! i have heard so many awful stories about OMOBs (overbearing mothers-of-the-bride) and CFILs (crazy future in-laws) who make wedding planning a nightmarish experience. i am so grateful that we haven’t run across those mythical monsters =)

our parents finally met.  what??  i know, people are surprised to hear that they haven’t met yet, but there hasn’t been occasion for them to meet up until now.  so they finally met and i wasn’t really nervous about it.  christi and i were talking about it and then also talked about appliance shopping and i think that i was more nervous about the appliance shopping than i was about our parents meeting.

but they met and it seemed pretty obvious that they come from different worlds.  actually, come to think of it my mom and my dad come from different worlds.  but anyhow, i think that they were pretty chatty about the upcoming wedding planning.  beyond that, it seems that they have little in common.

my dad loves golf.  loves, loves, loves it.  he mentioned to christi’s dad that he was going to be going golfing at pebble beach for the insanely cheap rate of $325.  cheap?  that’s insane.  i think her dad was taken aback by that.

yeah…my dad loves to golf.

but at the end of the night it was a good meet and i’m glad that they were able to meet. now we have the rest of the wedding to plan…