Sakura again...

Well, I am fortunate to see the Cherry blossoms last year and this year while living in Japan! You saw some of the Cherry Blossoms in the post from Kyoto. But, here are a few from around my area (they came out over 10 days earlier this year!):

















I went to the park near my house for three hours one day, meet lots of people, watched lots of people, and just took in the scenery. Hope you enjoy these pictures, wish you were sitting at the park with me............

It's a mystery!

I haven't had very many mind boggling things while here in Japan. Well, okay that's a lie I guess I have had quite a lot, but this is a quite interesting one. When Sara, Sam, and Janet came to stay at my house we went to the grocery store (ITOKU) to buy breakfast foods. I had pre warned them that there was no brown bread and the only thing to buy was flax, raisin, or white. So, we get to the store and decide to buy the flax bread, but Sara looks over on another table and there is brown bread, 3 slices in a pack, but brown bread ( I was shocked, yet so excited!) Then when we ran out we went back again but no brown bread, I thought maybe cause it was late at night it was all gone. I have been back to Itoku a few times since they left and no Brown bread.......... Can you explain that one to me? Does it boggle your brain too? Maybe it was just meant to be there to help the girls with their transition to bread here. I have no clue but kind of wish it was still here.....

Where they really here?

It was great to see Janet, Sam, and Sara in Japan. It was kind of weird at first to talk inside and then go for a walk outside, because I would forget that we were in Japan until I saw a sign all in Japanese. The first thing we did was spend some time in Kyoto and then they came home with me to Takanosu to see my daily life here. It seems like time just flew by on us, but thank you guys for everything while you were here. Below are a few pictures of what we did and saw in Kyoto.