がんばって Japan

Thankfully friends in Japan are all south of Tokyo and so should be safe but my heart is still hurting. I know that you will rebuild and do it well, as you have many times before. But seeing the airport I arrived at to visit a good friend and the towns I've driven through as they are now and thinking of the kind, loving people who would have lived there. My heart aches.

My thoughts and prayers are with you.

RSVPs

RSVPs are slowly but surely coming in. It's so lovely, especially the people who have gone to the effort to post an acceptance card (we didn't include them in the invite). We've been so wrapped up in just getting things done that it's really nice to hear that other people are excited about the wedding too! Lots of warm fuzzies!

And now for some Japan happy snaps...

Part of my favourite place in Kyoto - Kiyomizu-dera. 

Even in the rain with squelching wet shoes, I love it!

Watching our Maiko perform. Hard to believe she's just 16!

Getting excited about the Baseball - Go the Hiroshima Carp!

One month to go!

This time this month I'll be Mrs A! Right now, sitting in a hotel foyer in Tokyo I feel like everything is under control. The nearly two weeks away from planning has been great. It's easy for me, being the indecisive type, to spend hours considering options for cakes, placecards, don't even get me started on flowers that being out of the country and away from the planning has been really effective in getting things done! My beautiful BMs have dresses, my sister has organized most of the flower vases and bits and pieces and I even think that A has got through most of the jobs I left him!

On another topic I love Japan! Have done so much this trip that I haven't on others. Met a real live Maiko, went to the Ghibli Museum, my first ever baseball game - go the Carps! Who would have though baseball would be so exciting! Two days to go. Lots of shopping to do. Lots of photos to show when I'm home and not blogging from an iPod!

Week 6 already?

Time flies when you're having fun!

I'm slowly digging myself free of an avalanche of marking and getting excited not just about wedding things but the fact that in 5 weeks I'll be back here!!

Let the countdown begin!