Mon 4 Sep 2006
We’re all back in Austin and (more or less) recovered from jet lag. My last few weeks in Aizu were without the Diane and the kids, and I was mostly wrapping things up. But I did get taken out to some nice Japanese restaurants by some colleagues (thanks Toshi, Jerry, Lothar and Tomo). And also to a few izakayas, which are like bars with a large appetizer menu. I was treated to basashi (raw horse meat), shishamo (whole fried fish) and other goodies. On the way home I spent a few days in Tokyo where I ran into a Samba Festival near the Asakuza temple. There were maybe a dozen or two of these samba groups with maybe twenty dancers in each, all wearing Brazilian Carnival style costumes. Unfortunately, it was all a surprise to me, and I didn’t have my camera with me. This will probably be the last posting on this blog, and I decided to pick out my favorite photos from our summer in Aizu-Wakamatsu and put them all together in one place. I know the relatives enjoyed all the photos, but they were quite a lot of them. Such is life with a digital camera these days. But here are 70 or so of my favorites. Enjoy.