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Friday, March 28 2008 @ 03:01 PM CDT
Contributed by: Amity
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As you can tell, we haven't posted in a while. It seems that with coming back to America, our lives have become mundane, while increasingly busy. Since the website was primarily created for Japan and Japan is now over, it is with regret that we are retiring the website. You'll still be able to read things if you wish, but there will be no new posts.

Thank you everyone for staying with us for a year and a half, for devotedly reading everything. We hope you've enjoyed our year in Japan as much as we did :) The support of our family and friends really helped us adjust to Japan and make the most of our experience. Plus, it was nice to know that even though we were an ocean away, our blog helped bring us closer to America -- we were never alone. Thank you.

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So, What Now?

Saturday, March 08 2008 @ 02:43 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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So many of you may be wondering what are we doing now. After all, we have been back in the states for about six months. Here's a bit about what's going on.

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Michigan wildlife and weather

Saturday, March 01 2008 @ 09:09 AM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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Here's some things about where we live!

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Moving to America - Aug 29

Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 02:01 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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Wow, a whole year! Life didn't pause as we moved back -- flew into Denver from Tokyo on a Wednesday, moved to our apartment on Saturday, then Dave started school on Tuesday...

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Ai's Wedding - Aug 19th

Friday, February 22 2008 @ 10:08 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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And now, the long-awaited wedding!

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Got a cold

Monday, January 28 2008 @ 06:37 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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Sorry about delay in posting. Last week was crazy (Dave joined a research laboratory), and now I have my third cold this winter. Laura had an idea -- we must be weak against these American bugs that we missed out on last year. Sounds like a good theory to me. Even Dave has been sick more often (usually he's NEVER ill) and has been fighting each one I've brought home.

Next post will be on Ai's Wedding. Hope to have it up by end of the week. Thanks for your patience.

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Toyokan, Japanese Dining - Aug 9

Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 08:00 AM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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Yes, the days became busy during our last few days of Japan. Festivals, restaurants, selling our belongings (difficult - not much of a used market and throwing things away costs money). Two weeks straight we had a going away party or some engagement every day of the week. Throw in packing and trying to fit all our (new) belongings in the four suitcases we brought! Didn't work. Had to mail ten boxes of stuff.

Our very formal dinner was at Toyokan with Michiko and Sadao Hida, our host parents from our first week in Sendai.

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Tanabata Festival - Aug 8

Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 02:08 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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The Tanabata Festival is perhaps Sendai's biggest festival. It runs three days and lures over two millions visitors. The main attraction is actually the decorations.

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Nikko Pictures

Tuesday, January 08 2008 @ 08:49 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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Aha! You thought I would forget! But I did not!

The Nikko pictures are captioned and now on the web:

http://picasaweb.google.com/daveandamityinsendai

Also, a bit of triumph for my day: I made my first successful loaf of bread. I had made edible bread before, but it was half the height it needed to be and had the consistency of a heavy muffin. But today I had tall, fluffy white bread....but I forgot the salt. So it tastes just a little bit off.

Still, I am proud. Next goal: yogurt.

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Trip to Nikko - June 17th

Thursday, January 03 2008 @ 12:05 PM CST
Contributed by: Amity
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Nikko is one of the trips that I never posted. Japan's oldest temple complex (I think) is there, Rinno-ji, founded in about the 8th century. Later, Tokugawa Iemitsu (early 1600's) restored it and built another shrine complex (Tosho-gu) -- with the funds of more than a hundred warlords. Nikko is also a World Heritage site. Fulbright and Utsunomiya city's hospitality group sponsored the trip for any Fulbrighter that could get there. I was lucky enough to go -- Nikko's only a short bullet-train ride from Sendai. Read on for pictures, including a waterfall.

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