Grandmother Always Loved You Best~

To avoid having two grandchildren grow up with a Smothers Brothers’ complex, I am heading off to Japan next week to visit the older of my two new–well not so new now– grandchildren. This is my second attempt at the visit. Last time I had to cancel due to our neighbors and their shenanigans here in Costa Rica and only made it as far as Australia to see the one. Hopefully the land wars here will remain calm this time around and I can complete the trip.

Sam and his wife, Yuka, have been very understanding, but it is time for me to introduce myself to their first child and my first grandchild, little Hannah Oba, before she graduates from college. I gather she is already crawling and has a tooth(!) so I better hurry up and get there.

I love Japan, so this will be fun. I look forward to visiting my all time favorite temple, Mt Tanigumisan Kegonji Temple at (get this) Tokuzumi Tanigumi-mura Ibi-gun, Gifu. I can’t pronounce a thing in Japanese and always try to answer them in Spanish, which is patently ridiculous. I tend to bow a lot and say “yes” and “thank you.” Thankfully my son speaks the language and, of course, Yuka does, otherwise I would be entering banks thinking they were bathrooms and vice versa.

So I will be in good hands. I plan to take photos this time and hopefully can send in a post or two to the blog while I’m there.

I’m off to San José tomorrow and fly to the good old US of A on Tuesday morning. I will spend some time with my parents and coincidentally, my daughter Meraiah and her little boy, Morgan– my second grandchild– will be there at the same time.

I am very excited.