Still alive ;-P

Am still alive and well, although my eyes feel like they have a bag of sand under each eyelid and I feel like I:m on a ferry in bad sea (i.e. dizzy as hell)

We:ve made it to Japan, first time in seven years!!! everyone go YAY :-D

The trip was hard, espescially on the kids, first by car from Grundafjordur to Reykjavik, then flight to London, one night in a hotel (rather a few hours seeing as we had to be up at 5). Then a flight to Austria, Vienna, followed by gruelling 12 hours on an old rickety plane (thats what you get when you fly cheap) with only two movies shown both up on a screen far far away....., followed by a bus trip to Haneda airport where we waited for 6 hours before boarding the flight up to Akita :-D no wonder all the pictures of the kids are of them sleeping ;-P

It was great meeting the family again, and the strangest thing is that it doesnt seem like ages since I last saw them, one has merely settled into a comfortable relaxedness.... that is before all the wedding preparations begin ;-P

Until later... a few pictures..


Still at Reykjavik airport




At Heathrow airport

At Heathrow airport

Sleepsession 1

I loved the airhostesses posture, not to mention the red shoes ;-)


Ragnar coping with the food and chopsticks on the plane

Elena doing her letters ;-) I:m not a teacher, honest!!

Elena making friends on the PLane

Sunrise over China

Sleeping on the Haneda bus ;-)

Japanese oiltrucks shining away...

And sleeping again ;-)

Cheerfully awaiting food in Haneda airport restaurant

having made it home, okasan sets out to see whether the kimono baught actually fits

Asuka and Elena

Intresting...