Eleri's meal at the wedding reception. Unfortunately she didn't eat much, as she was asleep for most of the party.


a small side street in Tokyo. Gloriously bright and busy. We couldn't get enough of the bright lights. email us if you want more photos, we have a ton....


lost in translation....


here's eleri on the shinkansen. she got a whopper bruise on her cheek by jumping off this point and landing with her face on the neighboring armrest-- oops.





our bedroom, "japanese style" in the machiya in kyoto. If anyone is travelling to kyoto and wants to stay in one of these: Iori


this was one of the first temple like buildings we visited, the Imperial Palace in Kyoto. This particular building has a crane room and a tiger room. we peeked inside the tiger room with Eleri and from then on, any temple we saw was a "rowr house", or tiger house -- approached with much excitement. She even learned the proper bowing and clapping sequence to perform in front of the temple and the fun of throwing money in the little box.


temple hopping in Kyoto


"I've got to have that, " Sam and Eleri simultaneously


the bamboo path in Kyoto


in the foreground is a persimmon tree, a very popular, in-season fruit


the stairs in our machiya in Kyoto

Here's photos from our trip to Japan. This set goes to Yusuke and Sayaka's wedding which was on 11/16. We left ABQ at 7am on 11/12 and arrived in Tokyo at 5pm on 11/13
So you can get the idea that we have a million pictures. We got home on 11/30 and are all 3 just starting to recover from the jet lag. I'll try and post these in some installments, and for those of you on facebook, there's some there too.







these 2 in the DFW airport


Eleri saw this in the safety manual on the plane and made pig noises. Genius.


riding the tokyo subway











dinner at yusuke's parents' house with his sister Tomoko. we were very honored to stay with them our first two nights in japan


Checking out the totally cool BAPE store


sharing a crepe with daddy in shibuya


the bride and groom and the lowly commoners

todays brief post brought to you from the tiny computer outpost at the Benesse Oval. check it out online, you:ll have to look yourself. Naoshima Island, Benesse House, Oval, Tadao Ando. Very serene and beautiful, we stayed 2 nights in the Ando designed Benesse House Park Hotel. Eleri status:napping, Sam status:photo snapping, Megan status:blogging. tomorrow back to tokyo for the rest of the trip, and home on 11/30, only 25 minutes after we leave Japan :-)
love to all, pictures soon.

awake in kyoto

it's 5:30am and we've been up for 2 hours with crying eleri. trying to decide if its jetlag, or
just waking up in the night like she was doing @ home. japan is
fantastic & we're having a blast. hopefully we'll be able to sleep
through the night again soon....

find "alone in Kyoto" by Air and give it a listen

moab

ohboy, what a weekend. grandma&grandpa edwards are here, halloween and a party at our house, first ever trick-or-treating, and most importantly-we figured out how to bypass our computer glitch that kept us from getting the pictures off our camera. hopefully more frequent blog posts to follow. next weekend in moab with all kinds of great friends, and then from 11/12 to 11/30 we'll be in japan with yusuke and sayaka. more great things to come.....!

part of the wall of jack-o-lanterns everyone made during the party tonight

domogoj, ivana, damjian and the wee tiger

with daddy at the zoo boo

Balloon Fiesta and Birthday Party!

thanks Becky for coming from Denver for the weekend, and thanks everyone who sent prezzies and cards. we had a fun bithday week -- cosmo, samuel, eleri and megan. Can't wait to do it again next year....

September's been a busy month: travel, wedding (Grandma Anne), the state fair, Servas visitors, and just lots of regular old fun. here's a smattering of photos from the month.

Eleri at the Tent Rocks during our hike with Lili and Ronja, our german servas guests.

exploring a big tree root

Ooohh, rocks!

Ronja and Lili at the start of the tent rocks trail

In the corn filled sand box at the fair, Eleri's favorite part of the whole fair. Probably everyone's favorite, it felt really cool.

Watching the horse and buggy show with daddy

Mackin' on the giant pickle with tio and tia at the fair.

A beautiful fall morning with mommy at the rio grande nature center

Dis, Dis!!