Playing Catch Up

After returning from Omak, we built a snowman:



Visited the elk feeding station near White Pass:



Visited relatives in Pasco, my folks in Lacey, and my aunt and grandfather outside of Portland:



Then we went to the beach with friends. We flew kites:



and it snowed. A lot:



After the snow began to melt, we lost power and were forced to play cribbage by candle light. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of that. We returned to Lacey for several more days after the beach, then we high tailed it back to Tokyo.

As a quick preview of the next installment, our friends from WSU Meredith and Eddie recently moved to Yokosuka, a city about 45 minutes South of Tokyo by train. We have done a couple of day trips with them to Kamakura and the Ueno Zoo... but this weekend we're heading up to Nagano to do some sightseeing and visit the Snow Monkeys!