Photos worth sharing!

Meet Sumo San -- Susan's new beau! Handsome fella!  ;-)

We pass by this little playground everyday on our way to and from the hotel.  It's right around the corner, amongst all these homes, hotels and businesses.  Not once did we see any children playing in this playground.  Probably way too hot!   Our girls couldn't resist.  We stopped by a couple of times to go down the slide or sit on the two lonely swings.  

Guess what this is all about?   Schools in Japan, you're not allowed to wear regular street shoes into the school buildings.  When you arrive, you put your street shoes in the cubby holes and put on one of these red slippers.  Because of that, it's very clean inside the classrooms and hall ways. 

This photo was taken inside the school gym.  The students can wear gym shoes inside the gym.  These are their outside street shoes.  Notice the soles of the shoes are not touching the gym floor!!!   So disciplined and orderly at such young age.

Talk about orderly...that's Tati digging through her ginormous luggage, looking for her green shirt.  See the shoes behind her?  We were a mess! 

This is the hotel where we stayed.  Loved it!  

Here's Yoko with her flip phones!  They even match the color of her clothes!  The day we left, she joined the "smart" world.  She upgraded to an iPhone!  Yay! Now you're connencted! 

Shaeli is stuffing herself with a giant waffle cone ice cream sandwich bar!  

Ayaka, Moeka, Yoko, Shaeli, Kathy & Masashi at the Narita Aiport on August 9, 2014

 Thank you, our dear friends in Japan, for your warm hospitality.  On behalf of the girls and their families, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. 

Selfies of me and my beautiful, talented girls!  

Thanks for the memories!  Love you all!

Kathy Y.