Rainy Sunday

I am packing up to fly out tomorrow, but I wanted to share some more photos from last weekend.  Tomoki-san, who I first worked with more than seven years ago when I joined the company, offered to entertain me on Sunday.  Knowing that I have already been to a lot of places in the area, he suggested the Aichi Ceramic Meseum where you can look at the artifacts and then make some pottery on a manually turned wheel. I was really impressed with this piece that is a few thousand years old.

After the museum we had a mochi snack at a tiny tiny place near his childhood home

and then moved on this his favorite 'expensive bar' in Toyota city.

The whole place only had 11 seats, the bartender/owner apologized for being "a perfectionist who can only make one drink at a time," and the selection of liquor was like none I have ever seen - every surface was filled with bottles

My Favorite Holiday

I love daylight, and sun and the Summer Solstice.  The Solstice happens on the 22nd here and the sun will be rising at 4:39am! I'd love to see visit a Scandinavian country and see this someday.