Did I neglect to mention...

I have gotten married!! It was just the technical marraige (paper marraige) here in Japan, but we're now legally married. Be having a ceremony later on after we return to US. In any case, life is wonderful when you're married to your soul mate. And the time is drawing near that we will move to the US and begin life there. This is a short post, but maybe that's because I'm too busy enjoying my life. ;)

PS Well, as long as I'm here, I might point out that I saw a Japanese crane yesterday. Quite a rare find actually, as there are only about 800 left in the world. Really beautiful. Elegant creature. I can understand why the crane has such a large role in Japanese culture. I caught some bad pictures of the crane as well. Maybe I'll post the best one on here when I get it off of the card.