Sky Tree

The Sky Tree is AMAZING and HUGE. For those you who don't know, the Sky Tree replaces the old Tokyo Tower. The complex opened in late May, but it wasn't completely opened to the public. You had to get into a special lottery to win tickets before they opened it up completely. The women's group I belong to was in the lottery and won tickets, so I signed up to! It officially opens to the public for day tickets on July 11.

 Facts:
- tallest tower in the world
- 2nd tallest structure in the world
- outside its 634meters tall
- inside, highest point is 451.2meters
- from highest point, Tokyo looks like legos!

 Here are some pictures

Me at 451.2meters, just in case you couldn't see from the pillar

What the city would look like at night from this point

looking down from 345meters up....
hoping to get back to Skytree so that Mike can see if before we leave!

LONG OVERDUE Update

I've been a bad blogger and fully admit it, but life has been crazy these last 3 months that there was no time to blog.

Here is what has been going on:
March 9-17 Thailand
March 30 - April 6 Mom visits Japan
April 13 - 22 Cousin Rigo & Amanda visit in between I have meetings, sayonara parties
April 28- May 6 Bali
Meetings, luncheon, saynoara dinners
May 17-24 Sister, b-in-l, kids, Dad arrives  computer dies....not sure about recovery :(
May 29 Baby shower
May 30 hosting a breakfast
June 2 Balcony party/sayonara party at our house

 As you can see, its been a busy time and with the few days I did have off, I was trying to finish a quilting project for my friend by the time the baby shower date arrived. I did manage to finish, the night before! Now, Mike and I are free for the summer with no plans in the near future. I'm looking fowrad to things settling down for me, not sure that is going to happen for Mike. I'll post a little about some of these events, but will continue from here. We, yes we, promise to better bloggers especially since we have only 6 months left in Japan. happy summer days