Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
Last year I’d hoped to attend the Sawara Aquatic Botanical Garden’s Iris Festival but it was not to be—Chris’ deployment schedule changed unexpectedly (surprise) and it ended up being our last weekend together. This year, Chris was home and off we went! He is a good sport. To get married here during iris season you…
I have a special radar fine-tuned for the red umbrellas that signal Japanese tea ceremony. I spotted one across the irises at the Sawara Aquatic Botanical Garden and had beelined over before I knew what was happening. There was a bowl of tea with my name on it! This exquisite, hand-painted iris tea bowl held…
Surprise! Chris managed to be home the weekend before our FOURTH anniversary! That’s right, we have earned a Bachelor’s degree in marriage, and that’s no B.S.! ha ha ha….Anyway, we wanted to celebrate in a relaxing and fun way, so we had a lazy morning around the house playing video games and drinking coffee, then…
Odaru ahou ni Miru ahou Onaji ahou nara Odarana son son!! .The dancers are fools Those watching are fools They are fools the same So why not dance?Summer in Japan can be defined in one word for me: DANCE!! Since late May a handful of Americans have been showing up at the JMSDF Chidori-ren dance…
Japanese tea time is at 10am and 3pm—that’s when many people break for green tea. Warm mornings are still a novelty at this point, so I skipped the green tea for a pot of Lupicia’s Alphonso Mango tea with half an avocado divided between two slices of wheat toast, topped with a dash of salt,…
I walked into an antique place—one of those places Luke used to call ‘Crafts and Crap’—and thought, “who would collect teacups? Laaaaaaaame.” That was a long time ago. I still do not collect tea cups…but as I travel around flea markets and stuff, especially when I’m doing buying for the shop, I can’t help but…
So I want to give our squadron some good press but I also don’t want Chris to read my posts and say, “You can’t say that! Security sensitive information top secret security operation security etc etc!!” That is why I haven’t mentioned anything happening since Luke and Amber’s visit. We dropped them off at the…
