It was really gorgeous weather like this- this scene is a 5 minute walk from our place...
I'm almost used to hearing the crashing of the waves in the middle of the night. It is awesome. Last night Taka and I walked out there and watched the power of the sea. The waves smashing into the boulders by the road. It really is fearsome.
Funny,last night, again the movie The Titanic was on tv. The first time we saw that movie, Taka and I, we had gone to Guam. One of the couple trips I've ever taken elsewhere. It was just after Christmas we flew from Japan. When we were going through immigration there they asked "WHY did you come to Guam?" like we were strange or something. I answered "Well, it's a holiday- for fun..." wondering what the problem was. He man told us a very large typhoon had just blown through and most of the electricity and water was out! NO ONE had told us when we were leaving Japan, we had heard NO news. Anyway we rented a car, but drove through the dark, no street lights or traffic signals. Our hotel front windows were all blown out, and we had to enter through the back kitchen entrance.
That trip was one of the first I took away from my four kids. When that movie came out, it was about 10 years ago. I was so "fragile" anyway, about the circumstances I was making for my family. So when Taka and I saw that movie, when it was over, I just sat in that theatre and cried and cried- the movie kind of started it, but it was about life and love and death. People exiting the movie must have thought me odd though!
I'm mentally preparing myself to reenter Japan-land. I know where I keep a bedwarmer. I do look so forward to it even the cold weather, but home there. I'm so glad I have that all still happening there. But I am leaving in the middle of basketball season here and that feels unfortunate. Taka and I were looking at this year, 2008 and figuring out my year long travel plans- basically. Two months there, three here. Then another two months in Japan and three here again. Next mid-December I'll have to head back to Santa Cruz and stay till mid March to see through the basketball season. Zen's team is doing better- the head coach was actually someone causing some big problems. But we, some parents and the players, made lots of noise about it the end of December and it seems the assistant coach is now acting as head coach. Next year will be another story with, hopefully, new coaches!
It's nearly day break and time to go back to bed and get the last of dream-y-land there!
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