wedding

Bob and I got married
on November 16th in Osaka. On the same day, we had dinner with the most wonderful friends of ours! Thank you everybody for coming, and for the greatest (and funniest) presents!! We will never forget that night.

Here is a Laker girl celebrating early Christmas. Kaori has been a huge NBA fan for a very long time. She's happy in a Laker uniform, which Bob broght her for a Christmas present. Her god has always been Michael Jordan as he must be for all the basketball fans in the world...

One of the places we visited during our honeymoon was the Nagoya Castle, which turned out to be the best part of the trip. Look how red the leaves are! The landscaping in the park was also excellent. We were so impressed with those beautiful colors it was hard to leave the park. We both agreed the Nagoya castle was the best of all the castles we had seen.

Although I was born and raised in Japan, I had never seen Fuji-san (Mt.Fuji) before. I had thought "I don't have to see it. Everybody knows what it looks like...it's the big mountain that's white at the top and gray at the bottom..." But when I saw it with my own eyes for the first time, I was screaming and clapping my hands, jumping up and down in my seat on the train, and even tears were coming out of my eyes. It was so gigantic and heavenly...I felt now I could understand why that mountain is so famous, and people want to call it "the symbol of Japan". Because there is no other mountain like Fuji-san anywhere on the earth.

One of the entertainments at Onsen (hot spring) is dinner as you all know it by now! We first gave a prayer for those poor crabs and fish, and ate them all. We stayed at 2 onsen ryokans and they both served fantasic meals. I will definitely miss Onsen (...and sashimi, crabs, nabe after the Rotenburo...) when I move to US. I have to talk Bob into coming back to Japan when it's time for Onsen...of course that would be a yearly trip....