On both Monday and Tuesday this week Kazuho and I took the 68 bus downtown for bus practice. It is pretty easy to use the bus but once she tries to connect/transfer with the bus, it gets a little more difficult. Sue has set up a Google drive for photo sharing with Mr and Mrs Shinohara. From Google drive it is probably much easier to download full pixel photos. We stopped in for a cup of coffee at this non-Starbuck, non-Caribou, non-Dunn Bros coffee shop. Kaz had green tea that looked like oolong to me.
In our errands around South St. Paul we stopped down by the river, the mighty Mississippi River. As a geography lesson, I told Kaz she could hop in a boat here and float all the way to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. That’s downtown St. Paul upriver from South St. Paul. The tall building second from the right is Cray Plaza where St. Paul Prep is located.
Ravel has a new BFF, a Best Friend Forever. Kaz brought the boys some hand-crafted cat toys that they have to play with under supervision. Kaz gave us a pair of really nice crystal glasses and she brought a great hand-made scrap book explaining Japanese culture.
We transferred to the Green Line light rail to get to the capitol building.
Unfortunately, the capitol is closed for construction so we walked around the plaza and looked at the giant map of the counties of Minnesota. Three of the five million people in Minnesota live In the seven counties of the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities metro area is somewhere around the 15th largest metropolitan area in the US. I will ask Kaz if she misses being surrounded by the millions and millions of people who live in Tokyo.
This morning after I meet one last time with our old pastor intern Aaron, Sue, Kaz and I will go to the Minnesota Zoo for a family fun day. Later in the day we are hoping to meet up with Hide, Kaz’s brother. He is going to offer some tech support to get Kaz’s new computer working better.
(Picture me shaking my fist in the air yelling “Windows 8.1!!!!”)
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