Flying back to 日本 THIS MORNING!

"I'm leaving, on a jet plane~~" How often have I said that the past two and a half years?! Twelve times maybe? No, more...fiften? Sixteen. I'll have to check my passport. 

My boys Taka and Zen will be fending for themselves remaining in Santa Cruz once again.

And I will be back in Japan in the arms-well getting my hugs around my three older children in Japan again! And friends!!

USA Halloween!

(I'm putting these in here for my dear friends in Japan, and students, who wonder how and why we celebrate Halloween in the U.S. of A.!)

Check out all of these houses!!!


I swear about five homes...were right next to one another!

They were competing it seemed like!

Or just having a great time!

There are pumpkins everywhere for sale now.

And candy GALORE!

But, GRANDMOM HATES Halloween she has informed me. 90 year old Grandmom. Why? No meaning to it, it just for kids to try to accumulate candy she says!

Some BASKETBALL stuff!!!

Basketball HAZARDS!!!

I mean HERE:

Guys trying to DRAG HIM DOWN!!! What they will do!!!

Halloween's coming~Autumn's here and~

PEACE Pumpkins!!

Our Neighbors, Angelina and Azalea with their homegrown pumpkins.

Their pumpkin that read "Rasta" became the yummiest soup which Angelina shared with us.

(I must get a photo of Angelina's gorgeous longs dreadlocks for you!)

This is a famous old house waiting to be renovated near where we live. If I were young again, I would be trying to get inside with the hope of meeting the spirits who must be there!

Oh, Zen~this is the only kind of photo he lets me take of him!

Well, to tell you the truth, I wanted this of his VERY cool shirt from Japan.

240 means NI-SHI-O! [our home town in Japan]

Maybe it was Yuto who gave this basketball shirt to Zen?

Ozzie, Darling Julie was HERE in CaliFORN-I-A- USA!!!

Julie took quite a bit of a tour through the States here!! We got to have her fly through our home THREE times between her other destinations actually! She IS a wonder of a woman!! (He hee!! WONDER WOMAN JEWEL!!).

And Julie, driving on the RIGHT side of the road in our purple SUBARU-Yes!! Memorable TRAVELS


Along with a friend of Julie's from Argentina, Carmen,we got up there where it wasn't as freezing cold as I had feared, to Golden Gate Bridge!!

Zen posed cooly for Julie!