Papa has flown back to NY for work and we have stayed on for reasons I sometimes feel clearly about and at other times evade me all together. When Papa is with us our days are a whirlwind of people, coming and going, trains to and fro, friends on top of friends that we must meet. It is fun (but exhausting), and we eventually end up craving ordinary life. So it is good to be left in Japan with nothing to do. The trouble is, it is not the nothing we are accustomed to, it is the day to day of an older Japanese couple that conduct a rather quiet life together. It is not the sort of life to satisfy a seven-year-old boy with energy exploding forth from his ears. Baba and Jiji are doing their best to provide fun activities. Two days ago Baba took Uta to the movies, and today Jiji took him to a baseball game. He is doing many special things. But the special moments happen when we least expect it, like making origami cranes with Baba after everyone else has gone to bed, or sneaking out with Jiji to eat ice cream cones at the bakery down the road.
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