Happy 'Sea Day'

More fun & games with Yukiko's friends. Her friend Hakku, who now lives in Moscow with her husband, came back to Japan for a visit and dropped by.

Hiroko & Miku, Hakku & Teddy, Yukiko & yawning Jotaro



They didn't want me to be lonely in the middle





Catching a few zzzz's on the carpet



Yukiko & I took Jo to a local Buddhist temple so he could receive a special blessing from a monk. At first I was a little put off because I found out it was going to cost us about $100 for the blessing. The blessing took place in an elaborate ceremony and in the end I was pretty satisfied. The temple itself was very beautiful and gave another opportunity to snap more pics of Jo.

Inside Nakayamadera, waiting for the ceremony to begin.







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It wasn't until this point that a young lady, who was taking these pictures for us, told us that we had Jotaro's hat on backwards. So we quickly switched it around and took a lot more photos.



















Here's Jotaro showing off his crawl 'training'. He's actually gotten better since this video was taken and can now move himself around a little, but pretty slowly still. His main form of locomotion these days is rolling.