February 2012 - Trip to Japan
I survived our ten day trip to Japan, thanks to my two sons and granddaughter and to our generous hosts. We had a great time. People in Japan were extraordinarily kind and gracious to us. I have returned home with a new appreciation for all the bowing back and forth. I rather liked it!
The sights were amazing—from ancient to futuristic standing side by side. At our hotel room in Tokyo we looked out of our room onto Mount Fuji. At sunset it was like a fairy tale. We ate and ate and ate—wonderful food. We stopped at the City Museum in Nagoya to see my family’s one-time wall mural by Diego Rivera from the controversial Rockefeller Center fiasco. It is Diego’s redoing of the central and most controversial panel—with Lenin, Marx and Engels leading the way
