Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Dave's trip to Japan



In the 1980's and 1990's, Dave did quite a bit of travelling (the above calendar says he travelled 66 days in 1983). The "downside" was missing the girls' Suzuki violin concerts (3 daughters--2 years of violin concerts--he missed ALL of them---hmmm). The upside was he got to go to many interesting places, brought us back souvenirs, and racked up a lot of frequent flyer miles which allowed us to visit interesting places too.

He even had special business cards printed up. He sent us beautiful post cards and one letter.

I also received a beautiful Satsuma vase and a saki set.

The girls received little kimonos, adorable dolls and these little trinkets below (note the penny to the right to show how tiny these little figures are:

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Mizzou81 said...

I have a print that Dave brought me back...of a trout like fish.....my absolute favorite ...it hangs proudly in the Princess Room lou

February 18, 2009 at 5:34 PM

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