Iterashaimase

Back in japan after a long time away. Chie is doing well here in Japana and happy to see her mother. Her mother cannot speak anymore and is bedridden with a feeding tube in place to eat, but she is alive and I am sure happy to hear Chies voice.
I cannot thank all of her supporters for helping to get her home to see her mother while she is still here with us. I could never have lived it down had we not made it in time for her to see her. Chie holds her mother in the highest regard and the one person she love and respects the most. It was on my mind constantly as we prepared for this trip and with all of your help we made it. I know to some it may not make sense but to others it does. In learning the Japanese culture as I am sure I have said before, they put their parents up there next to God and nothing else could explain it.
We are adjusting to the life here. Chie seems to be making the adjustment well, while I ,, well I am struggling. Its very small, is about all I can say. Spoiled, I guess I have been to bathrooms where more than One person can fit. My Japanese is rusty but managing to understand 20 percents and able to read the conversations anoth10 or 20, not that that maatters much to her father who speaks to me as if I was fluent and have lived here for 30 years. Instead of watchiing Yoshimoto Shinkigeki , I wake up every morning to *Shirafuji Shinkigeki* and can hardly stop smiling and laughing enough to communicate with anyone anyways.
There is not much for me to do here so I have just been spending days scouting out the trains and trainstops for handicap accessibility and bathrooms so that I can safely take Chie out for some site seeing or something in the near future. Its not so disabled friendly as the states but I am really impressed with some of the upgrades they have made towards that area. I should be able to get Chie out and about soon.
We did get to see some cherry blossoms before they went away and that was important for Chie and I both. JoJo is heree and helping me out. Good to see him and Yoshiko both and baby FIFI. Joe has one more on the way coming this august so I am hoping to steal him away for a vacation before he has his feet planted for the next 18 years. We are planning our proposal to the dear sweet , kiind , understanding , great , terrific , besst, ichiban Yoshiko at the moment. I hope she says YES!!! Iwill let everyone know
Yoshiko Danjo!!!!! Pleasse contact Mikio for us , we saw a very bad picture of Daisuke holding his shoulder and it not make us very happy. We hope he is ok and send our love to him and you all ,
We will try to keep this updated as much as possible for everyone, sorry no pictures,, I havent found my camera yet. Ithink it is somewhere in one of my bags , Ill findi t soon though , so keep checking back,
lots of love
DAVE