Yay!

This, I think, is what is meant in Shizuoka-ken by "Tea Garden"

My friends and I have finally been able to agree on a time for the tea garden thing.  They're driving down from Tokyo and I'm taking the train up from Kyoto.  So, that will be Monday the 6th of June -- Tea Day.  Bad pun so sorry.  Anyway I'm very excited about it.  This is a tea garden near a town called Kakegawa in Shizuoka-ken (prefecture)  I'll be taking the train, I assume, right near a large inlet called Ise Bay.

I first started learning about foreign countries when I was in third grade, O.J. Stivers Elementary, Mrs. Harned.  I noticed then than Kyoto and Tokyo were anagrams of each other, though of course they aren't, in their own language; but I wondered if there were something about that.  Apparently, no, it's like God and dog -- anagrams but not in their own languages.

Well no, it's not ALWAYS sunset at Port Royal. 

Oh, mini-break this weekend, Friday through Monday, and how great is that?  Memorial day long weekend (we'll be away in Port Royal) and then back for three days and then off to Japan.  Very nice.  "Sweet" -- that's what the lad would say.

So, if you're reading this, and admit it, you are, I'll be back Tuesday.  I packed my camera and its little cord today.  Now I just have to hope the Japanese computers like my little camera cord.  Oh come on, it's Japan.  Their computers can do just about anything, right?