Hi All
Well I finally got this computer hooked up and am connected once again with the outside world. Yeah, Can't believe it has been so long since I was last on here. Alot has happened since I last wrote on here. Let me try to get you up to speed.
Wednesday Oct 22 Jean and I spent the day in Tokyo and had a lovely day strolling in a lovely Japanese garden right in the middle of the city just below the Tokyo Dome. We enjoyed watching many coi fish eating bread crumbs tossed to them by local children, walking over rock paths across the water and up many a ster and over bridges of all varieties. A few trees were starting to change colors too and so that added an even prettier view to the area. We then made out way on the subway over to the Tower but first stopped at a very colorful Buddhist Temple where many child memorials were all decked out in red caps and bibs along with many brightly spinning pinwheels blowing in the breeze.
Next we stopped and savored an energy boost ice cream and fruit crepe at the base of the Tokyo Tower while I too enjoyed taking pictures with 10 different cameras of the local Japanese teen girls on a field trip. We then made out way up the first elevator and took in the city scape of Tokyo where we looked at all angles of the big city in the daylight and then up to the next observation area for a night view when it was all illuminated. I had a ton of fun making light photos by shaking my camera and seeing the effects of the 1000's of colors. One of the intersecting highways looked like an orange starfish to me as all the carlights shone along its 5 different arms
We then joined CJ for Shabu Shabu dinner and Jean got to enjoy her first taste of sushi as well. She liked it, but not the shrimp eyes glaring right at her as she took a bite of its tail. She too will need to continue her pratice with chopsticks...she is left handed and that seemed to add another complication to the mix :-)
Thursday Oct 23
We woke to a rainy day in Yokohama and so we hung out at home till it was time to go meet CJ for lunch. We ended up staying home longer than expected as the rain was coming down pretty good and so we opted to meet CJ for dinner instead. We enjoyed our train and subway rides up to northern Yokohama and then the walk along the path through the woods to Graco. Jean got to meet a few of CJ's secretaries and Tad while getting a tour of his office and the newely renovated and cleaned up building. WOW...what a difference new carpet, paint and some banners made. It felt like a whole different building than when I first saw it back in July. Nice Job Ceeg!
We then made our way to a Hawaiian restaurant for supper where Jean and I enjoyed some very good Pina Coladas decked out with umbrella's, pineapple and sparklers. She too enjoyed the slide show on the wall as we ate dinner and she remembered the fun times she had with Harley when they traveled there for their 25th Anniversary.
More tomorrow from Kyoto
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