OFFICIALLY MARRIED

Last week Mako and I submitted our paperwork to the local city office meaning...we are OFFICIALLY MARRIED in Japan. We do plan on having a formal celebration once I start working, but to celebrate the occaision we went to a very nice Italian Restaurant. The meal was just excellent, perhaps the best Italian Food I ever had. After the meal something very shocking happened. We were walking back to the station and heard a thud. An old man had fallen to the floor face first. We went to help him, and were shocked to see blood everywhere. As people came to help him he kept saying ...."Sumimasen" or Excuse me, even though he was in so much pain all he could think of is how he was being an inconvienence for everyone helping him. He was given a tissue to stem the bleeding and he decided to use it to wipe up the blood on the floor. Eventually the station staff came to help him and it seems like he was going to be ok...