What a great Christmas, so far.

While my blog might show today as the 24th (at 7 PM), it’s noon here in Japan.  Reiko has to work today, but she came over early so that we could have breakfast together and open gifts.  Reiko-chan makes great food, I don’t know why she thinks otherwise.

Reiko-chan with her MozartBreakfast was eggs, salad and toast with syrup, followed by some apple yogurt.  After this was done and put away, we brought out the Christmas gifts, and it looked like all the planning and worry earlier had paid off.  Reiko really enjoyed her gifts, especially the complete collection of Mozart (170 CDs worth of music!).

It won’t be easy to beat next year, so maybe Reiko and I can spend Christmas in Austria ….

I’ve started posting some pictures from my trip here.  It’ll be slow going, though.  Unfortunately, my web server at home is decent for a few things, but doing the work of importing images and resizing for thumbnails is not very quick.  Either way, I’ll keep at it.  Once I get home, the higher resolution images will be uploaded to replace the smaller pics.

Later today I’ll head over to Reiko’s work to meet her for lunch, and afterwards I’ll get the opportunity to meet a few of her new co-workers.

I love this country.