More Japan pictures

Most of you probably already saw these on Facebook, but my wonderful kids email me the photos I would otherwise miss, since I don’t read Facebook anymore.

For my friends who aren’t on Facebook (and I know at least 2 of you aren’t), here’s the latest from Laura & Alex’s trip to Japan.

Oh, and Laura already corrected me from my post of 10 minutes ago. The flip-flop slippers I want are only available in one store and only in the spring and early summer. Bummer! Now I have a really good reason to go visit Japan again someday. After I spend a gajillion pay periods earning vacation time at an hour and a half a week.

Here’s her pics:

Aren’t they a cute couple, framing – what is that back there? A topiary bear?

Yum, yum, squid snacks!

There is a story associated with the last picture that we still laugh about. The first time I visited, Laura and I were seated at a counter on an upper level overlooking the station, with all these people running around down below us. I was trying to eat a rice ball. Imagine trying to eat a large round thing with chopsticks. Well, I dropped it. So I leaned down to pick it up off the floor to throw it away, and realized that it had rolled under the railing and had escaped – fallen – flown – gracefully arced – all the way to the ground floor below. Oops.