It is Sunday evening and I am finally recuperated from my jet lag (I think!).  I arrived home from my trip to Japan at 2am Friday morning.  What a LONG journey home!  My flight left Japan at 430pm Tokyo time Thursday (which would have been 230am Thursday here at home.  So basically I traveled for […]

I have no pictures yet to post today.  But I have good memories to share.  Today Noriko, Aki, Kazu and I took a Duck bus tour through Tokyo…it was a bus that turned into a boat and we traveled on land and water.  They gave us duck whistles to blow and when prompted we had

We have returned back to Noriko’s house in Chiba from our 3 night trip in Okinawa.  I had such and AMAZING time there 🙂  The flight was about 2.5 hours from Tokyo and we stayed in Nago which was about a 2 hr drive from the airport once we landed.  We stayed at a really

As I posted earlier…I woke up to the news that my uncle had passed away.  My brother wrote and told me that he died in his sleep of heart failure.  I am relieved to know he went peacefully.  His wife and family are definitely in my thoughts right now.  As well as my Dad…I am

I just got a delayed message that my Dad’s younger brother passed away earlier this week.  I do not yet know all of the details but I am very saddened by this news.  Today I will be praying for my Aunt and his family. Life is so precious.  Since my mom passed away 10 years

I was worried I wasn’t going to be able to eat much on this trip…I was wrong!  This morning Noriko and I went to a pastry shop…this place was gorgeous with all of the fresh pastries and smelled SO good.  We brought back breakfast and got ready for our day out with Aki and Kazu.