Serious Business

She's been training for this. What worries me is that this could be training for something else.

Kickin It in Kyoto

Where can I get one of these for our living room?

The Rites of Summer

You can't be a kid until you've played with fire. That's Kaname with Nia. He's the son of Hiromi's good friend Aiko. He's in a bathtub elsewhere in this blog. He and Nia were born about two weeks apart in Kyoto--Kaname just before the new year, Nia just after.

Way Too Much Fun

Not sure where they went for this, but it's pretty obvious that it didn't matter. If you were a kid, and someone took you here, would you really care where it was?

Clowning

This is the hallway of Nia's school, which, as of this writing, is out for the summer. She's finished. Looks like it was pretty low stress for our gal.

More Gion Matsuri

Crowds R Us. This is it. The first shot is a great example of what it's all about. Mardis Gras holds nothing on this. These crowds are epic. Wall to wall people. The second shot is dark, but it shows some friends of Hiromi's--Sayo and her husband, Ma-chan-- and their children. Nia is in there, too, though she's hard to make out.

Nia Nemo

Nia told me on the phone about this place. She really liked it. Can't remember which city. Not Kyoto.