We went to Oita this last weekend.  It's the prefecture to the Northeast of Kumamoto.  We definitely felt the earthquake, but it wasn't as bad as it was in Fukuoka.  We just felt some swaying for about 30 seconds.

This was definitely quite a trip.  See the pictures of USA, hell and heaven as well as Kimiko in a sari from India.  Oita is an interesting place.

I had planned to update this more often, but two things are keeping me from making more of an effort.  First, my computer seems to freeze up shortly after viewing my msn spaces page, which means I have to reboot after every update.  Just a pain.  Plus, for some odd reason, my page navigation will only come up in Japanese.  Every other Microsoft website from hotmail to msn comes up in English, my language is set to English, but spaces will ONLY come up in Japanese.  Grrrr.....and msn support didn't even understand my problem.

So, that's why I don't update often.

Take care,

Jer