We had our first nighttime blackout last night. It actually only lasted one hour instead of three as we had expected. Tomoki thought it was great fun running around with his flashlight! We had just gone up to our attic to work on a project (putting a protective plastic cover on the front of my dollhouse--which by the way--really looks like an earthquake happened as I didn't have any sticky putty to anchor all the little things in place!). Anyway, Akihiro was commenting how strange it was to look over the city and see it all dark except for the red lights on the top of tall buildings in the distance. It was about then that the lights went on--quite a site to see the city "come alive" again.
We spoke with our Chinese friend, Li-san, who returned to China. He said he won't be coming back to his apartment or work because his wife is too worried. While we will miss him in our church, we are very happy to see him with his wife and daughter. We spent some time yesterday helping the owner of his apartment clean it out and brought some of the stuff back here to our place to go through.
Akihiro did not been feeling 100 percent this week (cold symptoms along with the seasonal allergies which are 1o times worse this year), but we were able, though, to put together some supplies for Andrew to take up this weekend. It felt good to do just a small bit to help the people there.
