Tokyo for New Year's Eve

We took the kiddos to their third Asian country for New Year's and we all fell in love with Japan ... loved everything except the cost of living! Clean air, good food, friendly people ... that's not saying the opposite of our current locale, but........

The fam at the East Gate of the Japanese Imperial Palace in Tokyo on a beautiful December 31, 2007!!!

Me in front of the Meiji Temple in Tokyo... we have a really good bus tour which is in itself something that we possibly have NEVER done before, we tend to hire a private guide or go on our own, but this worked out quite well.

Jim and Joey in the Shibuya Intersection in Tokyo

This picture is of Jimmy and me in Shibuya intersection ... Tokyo's Times Square. "They say" that if you laid a $100,000 bill (ya, if there was one ... stay with me...) down on the street there you could not buy that real estate with the bill ... shoosh. Neat thing is there is a two-story STARBUCKS over my left shoulder! Ah... America wields its influence so subtlely sometimes.