Barbara Thompson

Monday, April 6, 2026 Hello. I am doing voice to text because I am very, very tired after our day at Tokyo DisneySea. I just went through and put up 83 pictures – which is such a small amount of what I took – and I still need to go one by one and add

Sunday, April 5, 2026 Happy Easter! Kristine and Mike found a church with an English service. Kristine got Keith’s cold and had a lousy night, so they changed plans for 9am to the 11am service. They brought their bags to us instead of finding a locker after their 10am check out. Our hotel, Sequence Miyashita

Saturday, April 4, 2026 We wanted to visit an art store that is right on the corner by our train station before we took off for the day, but when we got there it opened a half an hour later than the internet had said. Mike knows all the things so he suggested we go

Friday, April 3, 2026 Yes, we started today at McDonald’s. I had a regular egg and muffin and Keith had a Japanese teriyaki sausage, egg, lettuce, mayonnaise muffin. We had the side package of strawberry cream cheese pie, hash browns, and orange juice. Keith thought the hash browns tasted Japanese. We met Kristine and Mike

Thursday, April 2, 2026 We are in our awesome hotel, on the 15th floor overlooking a park on the roof of a shopping area. Keith is staring out the window trying to figure out which way the ocean is so he knows where to look for Godzilla coming. He is making a plan! Our train

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 We had a breakfast buffet this morning at the hotel. It had Western and Japanese food. Mike and Keith tried the cold rolled eggs, and Mike commented that it proved they can cook eggs; they just don’t want to. The “scrambled” eggs were the runniest I’ve ever encountered. Keith found a

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 it just cannot be overstated how great Mike has been at organizing our transportation. Kristine and I love watching Keith and Mike stand at machines or talk to transportation people while we do nothing at all. We took two different trains from Kyoto to Kanazawa this morning. It was great to

Monday, March 30, 2026 We visited a bamboo forest today. We, and a lot of other people, walked through towering bamboo. I know it grows quickly, but it was all tall. I wondered why there wasn’t some new bamboo. It was pretty. There was a garden at the end of the bamboo that had once

Sunday, March 29, 2026 I woke up at 4am and had to check on the No Kings rallies happening at home. I had a picture from Donna of Nancy and pictures from friend Jean. Friend Cheryl had listed some things she heard that she really liked. I liked them too. We are all connected. None

Saturday, March 28, 2026 Since we didn’t use our breakfast coupons yesterday, we took Mike and Kristine to breakfast in the hotel today. Mike used his dictionary and was able to get the eggs for Kris and I cooked through. Delicious. He and Keith enjoyed using the rice machine – you set a bowl under