Cherry Blossoms vs. Yu-Gi-Oh

Last Monday, Yuta and I went to Roppongi so that the lad could play Yu-Gi-Oh at the Konami building.  We were going to leave at 10:00 AM, but he came home late from school and Oba-chan made us stop and drink some juice before we biked to Kita-Kogane.  I took this picture of the two of them right before we cycled away.



We had no troubles riding the Chiyoda line from Kita-Kogane to Roppongi, but were too late for the Yu-Gi-Oh lessons at noon.  We stopped at Starbucks for lunch, Yuta ate a ham and cheese sandwich (the same as me) and I also had a piece of cheesecake.  We got to the Game Center at around 12:40 and Yuta dueled several people.  This photo is during one of his matches.

At around 3:00 PM, I went out to take pictures of the surrounding cherry (sakura) trees, as they are in full bloom right now.  It was an extremely beautiful walk and I could feel my Nature Deficit Disorder waning.  I took quite a few photos and I am going to post a few of them below.  I hope that Brother Eric Benson finds this post, as he had thought to come to Japan and witness this event for himself.  I was thinking of you as I took the pictures, knowing that I would have an audience seeing the results of my work inspired me to do my best!