Uvella drives us to the Fussa station near the base, where we will ride a local into Tokyo. 

Busy Tokyo Station -- but notice how clean & shiny everything is! 

Yum -- this was my obento box lunch on the train. From left to right: Cooked salmon & salmon eggs on rice, fish & vegetables in center, pickled vegetables, mushrooms & rice on right. Stan opted for small sandwiches, but I shared some of mine with him. 

City views & cloudy skies 

Interesting buildings as we pull into a station. Notice the large TV screen at the bottom of the tallest building. 

A Christian church from the train, along our way home. 

We're in Car 9, a non-smoking car. This electronic sign runs in Japanese and English. At one point, it told us we were going over 300 kph (@186 mph). 

Clouds came & went as we traveled from Tokyo to Iwakuni. 

Checkerboard fields 

Mountains & riverbed 

Hillside covered with homes 

City views from the train 

more city views 

and more. 

Osaka dome 

The sun sets as we speed toward home -- and there's no place like home! 

Kelly's Halloween in AZ

This is Kelly (6) in her Princess on a Unicorn costume! How cute is this? If you look closely, you will see that she's wearing a pink kimono from Japan! She told me her Mom stayed home & gave out candy this year with Memaw, and Daddy and Pepaw (they were visiting from Phoenix) went out trick or treating with her. She added that Pepaw "gave up" after a while and walked home. She said it was lots of fun & she got lots of goodies!

Happy Halloween!

Bob was very excited and all dressed for Halloween!

More trick-or-treaters than we've ever had!

A whole family of pirates

These HS students had performed at an assembly at school, and "volunteered" to show me in our hallway, what I had missed. Since there was no music for their dance, they hummed. It was a GREAT show!

There were long waits for the elevator.

"Goblins" in our building!

Yukari -- she cuts Stan's hair, but she usually looks a little different. You may remember her from last year's party as a blonde frog . . .?

Japanese trick or treaters counting out their loot . . .




Tommy -- King of his castle . . .

When we ran out of candy (in only about an hour!) we went over to Ingrid's for goodies!
Yum -- look at this feast!

Ingrid's students & their families sharing good company & good food!

Kids enjoying goodies . . .

Grownups enjoying the goodies . . .