Watch, Read, Listen

October 7, 2012-    – sigh -  It's Sunday morning.  Time to head out on the train from Nagoya station to the airport (after eating a quick breakfast in the hotel).   – bummer -  I don't want to leave Japan!!!! On the -long- and slow train ride to the airport. We're all checked in!…

October 6, 2012 – It's time to pack up and leave Kyoto.  I know, I know….there's so much more that we could see here!  We're really sad to have to go but sadly tomorrow morning we fly home from Nagoya.   One last look at the Yamazaki Inn: In the window of the inn there…

October 6, 2012 – We only have 1.5 days left in Japan!  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!  Where did the time go??????? Today we're going to go see a real Japanese rock garden before  leaving Kyoto and heading back to Nagoya.   Let's go eat breakfast and head out for quick tour.  :-) Here's a look at our room…

We're almost at December and I haven't finished posting photos from our Japan trip at the beginning of OCTOBER.  Yikes!  Talk about being BEHIND schedule! Well, keep your fingers crossed that the internet works today so that I can finish showing you stuff we thought was cool about Japan. I think this might be a…

November 23, 2012 – HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!! WHOOPS!  I COMPLETELY forgot that yesterday was Thanksgiving (USA)!!!!  How on Earth could I forget such an important day???? Well, could it be that in China this holiday isn't observed and the kids and expats all had to go to school and work??? That's one of the sorrows (and…

October 5, 2012- Woo Hoo!!!  Mark was able to turn on his cell service and we were able to locate the restaurant I was hoping to find.  (don't worry, we only turned on his cell phone for only a minute or so) Gogyo Restaurant in Kyoto (down a side street, near the market): We're on…

October 5, 2012- We just finished touring around the Golden Pavilion (also called Kinkaku-ji) and now we're going to try our luck riding the busses… here's hoping we can get to the Nishiki Market!           Enjoying our drinks and some goonie faces at Starbucks, while struggling to get the wifi to…

October 5, 2012 – Goooooooooooood MORNING!!!!  How did you sleep???  Did you forget, as I did, that you were in Kyoto and not in Shirakawa-go or Takayama???  Ha ha ha!  I think all this traveling has gotten me all mixed up!  :-)   There are lots of things to do and see in Kyoto but…

October 4, 2012 – Whew!  We finally got off the bus station and we already saw where we need to head to – our inn, called Yamazaki, is just down this road.  We. Are. Tired!  Isn't it funny how traveling all day will wear you out even though we just mostly sat on buses and…

October 4, 2012-  We're heading to Kyoto….and here are some views from the train as we're watching the countryside whiz past us: Very cool thing was listening to Annika teach Ava how to do multiplication.  Seriously.  Annika has learned a trick (which she still needs to show me!) to doing multiplication and the girls were…