Pictures

Here are some recent pictures from around the house and city. This is the only picture I managed to take of hanami up in Ueno -- the trees in this photo were only beginning to burst forth, but other trees were in more advanced states of bloom elsewhere in the park:



I finally reinstalled the software to pull pictures off of our phones, so here's a dump of some of our best phone photos. First stop, Ikea. In Japan, Ikea has carts for rolling your trays of food around, and glasses of wine to go with lunch!





Here's a picture of Robbie riding a pony at Himonya Koen:


$3 Strawberries... that's $3 each, $27 for the box:


A subway sign asking foreigners to refrain from annoying other passengers by talking on their mobile phones:


Mt Fuji as seen from my office window (it's that little white smudge on the horizon):


And to close, at some point Robert discovered that our couch and chair have removable cushions. Since then, at least once a day, they all get taken off of their respective pieces of furniture, thrown on the floor, and jumped on. He also discovered (with a bit of assistance) that cushions make excellent forts: