We only had a day to relax in Japan on our way to Fankfurt, but we had a wonderful time. We met up with Steve's sister Robyn's host family from when she was an exchange student (it sounds complicated, but it really isn't). They were very excited to see photos of Robyn & her family. Fusako and her mother Kisako came to our hotel and we had a wonderful Japanese dinner together. Between Fusako's English, Nikki's Japanese and a great electronic dictionary we were able to chat together. Both Fusako and Kisako are priestesses at a Buddhist temple in Japan, so it was interesting to see the similarities they had.
Fusako also brought her ventriloquist's doll (which gave us all a fright because it looked so life like and she didn't tell us she was pulling out the doll). Hannah and Jacqui had a go at being a ventriloquist.
Other highlights were seeing the smoking booths in Japan (you can't smoke outside, you have to go into a small booth to smoke, and it has air filters to make life more pleasant for everyone outside the booth), the automatic toilets (complete with bidet, which gave us a bit of a shock), and seeing all the strange things you can get in vending machines.
We will try and post some photos when we have better internet access in Copenhagen.
Ja Ne
2 comments:
We had an email from Fusako. She enjoyed the meeting. She was surprised how tall J & H are. She did not say anything about the doll. I guess her English is not adequate for that.
M&P
I got a very excited email from Fusako too. She definitely really enjoyed meeting up with you guys. And she didn't mention the doll to me either! The funny thing that Jamie and I have been watching a lot of Jeff Dunham (a la Achmed the Dead Terrorist) on YouTube, so it's rather wild to hear that Fusako is into ventriloquism.
love RA&J
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