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| Goodbye to our Hosts and Japanese Home |
Today is sad for us as we say goodbye to our wonderful new friends, Kiyoko-sun and Hiro-sun. They have both been hospitable, gracious, and have taken excellent care of us. We are not alone in our appreciation of the unique, and well planned, experience that the Friendship Force Gifu club has provided for us as a group and as individuals in their homes.
Kiyoko-sun and Hiro-sun have shared their home, prepared meals for us, helped us with the laundry, laughed with us, answered numerous questions for us, played games with us; and today they were the first friends with whom we shared the joyful news we received of our fourth grandchild being born!
We are simultaneously happy and sad. Happy, happy for news that all is well with mommy and baby. Sad, sad, to say goodbye to our friends here in Gifu.
Happy, happy that our Gifu friends will be coming to Sacramento next fall. Anxious, anxious to return home to be with family and welcome our newest family member and hug all of the rest, but that will have to wait until we return home in 12 days.
Today, we are off again with our Sacramento journey group in a chartered tour bus to Kanazawa, via Shirakawa-go, UNESCO World Heritage Site of a Traditional Village, Shirakawa-go
Two Friendship Force leaders from the Gifu club are accompanying our group. We have a big bus in which we are all luxuriously spread out and have an English speaking tour guide, Miwa-sun.
It is drippy, misty today as we begin to climb the mountains. We are a little over 3,000 feet elevation in the valley of Shirakawa-go. The mountains continue climb upward. Several meters of snow carpet the village every year.
Today, we are off again with our Sacramento journey group in a chartered tour bus to Kanazawa, via Shirakawa-go, UNESCO World Heritage Site of a Traditional Village, Shirakawa-go
Two Friendship Force leaders from the Gifu club are accompanying our group. We have a big bus in which we are all luxuriously spread out and have an English speaking tour guide, Miwa-sun.
It is drippy, misty today as we begin to climb the mountains. We are a little over 3,000 feet elevation in the valley of Shirakawa-go. The mountains continue climb upward. Several meters of snow carpet the village every year.
Today there is no snow and the trees are displaying their fall colors.
We arrived around 11:45, and spent a couple of hours wandering through the picturesque village and having lunch at a local restaurant. Enjoy the photos below:
The remainder of our afternoon was spent driving to Kanazawa. I wouldn’t know as I fell fast asleep immediately upon living Shirakawa and was shaken awake when we reached Kanazawa. We checked into our rooms. Russ and I struck out on our own for dinner and returned for an early night. Tomorrow we tour
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