Well, I’m finally going to see Rika’s home town. It sure has been a long time coming. Sometimes it takes less than perfect circumstances to get us motivated, but I’ll take it however it comes. I can’t hide how excited I am! I can’t wait! We leave June 3rd and return on the 17th.
I’m hoping Amelie doesn’t have too much of a problem with the 11 hour flight. It’s a big plane, but the seats are still pretty cramped. At least there will be individual LCD panels behind every seat. Hopefully you can either chose what you want to watch, or they watch something she’s intersted in (not to mention appropriate).
I’m also hoping we can have pretty easy Internet access. If so, I’ll post updates as often as I can. It’ll save me from having to do it all when I get home. 
While we’re there we’re going to get Rika’s dad a DVD player. Yep, they’ve never had one, or even used one. Hard to believe, I know, but…. Reason we want to do this is so that we can just send them the yearly (soon to be semi-annual) DVD’s of the home movies we take. If we’re REALLY lucky we’ll be able to hook them up with a computer and the Internet so they can do email and video conference with us.
