We hope you have received a calm century. We are back in Japan and spent New Year with temples and shrines. We have a lot of snow in Tokyo this year.
Temples are beautiful in the snow.
The New Year day is very special for Japanese. Maybe this is the first time for Mako to receive a new year in this way. She was awake 5 hours past her bed time, and enjoy every part of the special night. The shrine was clouded and we were in the line for more than half an hour to reach the main shrine. The shrine was full of street vendors.