IrishOboe

As you will read in this post, I spent a long time putting pictures up on Shutterfly. I have now put everything up, so knock yourselves out! There are some really great ones and I put new pictures in old albums, too. I tried to label things well, but let me know if something is confusing! Sunday (Nov. 27th) I again got up around 8am and wrote an update and worked on putting pictures up on Shutterfly. That made me miss people so I called Downingtown and talked to many family members. Somehow all that took until nearly 1pm. I had to skip lunch because I had to be in Kofu for a tour of Kofu castle in English. The train schedule was such that I had to leave quite early so I decided to use the time to bike to Kofu since it was such a beautiful day. I thought it’d take about an hour, but it only took 25 minutes! Really, it’s not that much slower than the train. That’s good to know, though I don’t think it’d be so nice at night.

The tour was very interesting. It was mostly for Japanese people who wanted to practice their English, so that was fun. The castle is a cool place with lots of history. I’ll definitely take Mom and Dad there when they come (and whoever visits me – hint, hint). Afterwards I stayed in Kofu a bit trying to find the craft shop to get knitting needles. I didn’t find the one I was looking for but I found a cute little local shop that had them, but they were expensive! I’ll have to see about that one. I stopped at the store to get rolls for our Bible study Thanksgiving dinner party and managed to get home without squishing them too much. I had some leftovers and salad for dinner then spent the evening putting more pictures on Shutterfly. Hopefully after catching up I can more easily just keep up with the blog and the pictures. Hopefully . . .

So, sadly it wasn’t too much of a Sabbath, though I did enjoy the bike ride on a nice bright, cool (not cold) day. Oh, and I also managed to catch the kerosene man so now I have a good supply of kerosene to keep me warm.