Finally a new post

I know it has been along, long, long, and even longer time since I have posted last, but I do have a good reason. Sort of. I have been working. The work has been getting pretty extreme. Not in the sense that I am jumping out of airplanes, or diving to the bottom of the ocean, or patrolling the streets of Baghdad with my trusty M-4, but inthe sense that I have been working 12 - 14 hours day trying to keep from drowning in the quagmire that is work right
now.

That being said, Rebecca and Peter came to visit us this last couple weeks. It has been the longest time that any of our family has been here to visit us. A couple of months ago, my cousin, Will Perry, came to Japan to study his martial art and he spent a aevening with us, and we drove up into the northeastern suburbs of Tokyo to hang out with him. It was interesting.

But while Rebecca and Peter were here, I actually took a couple of weeks off. So we took the opportunity to go up to Gotenba, hang out at Fuji-kyu Highlands Amusement Park, Go to Thomasland for Ronan, and of course sit in the Oonsen and drink beer.

The next week we took the train up to Tokyo, where we stayed at the New Sanno Hotel, which is a very nice military hotel located in central Tokyo.

It was great because hanging out with the Lines crowd is always the best! Of course Kristin, Ronan and I have not had a chance to really explore Tokyo at all, and doing with visiting family is all the better. We ate great food, we saw some pretty cool things, and overall is was fun.

Well, I need to get back to work. Later people.

~jp