Conference pictures

I've uploaded the pictures I took in Tagajo and Matsushima while at conference. As always, double click on one of the slideshows running at left and it should take you to my Picasa Albums. Click on an album to view the pictures.

OMF East Japan Conference

These are most of us, taken in the parking lot of the hotel in Tagajo where the conference was held. I love it when someone goes to the second floor and sits on the window ledge to get a group shot. No double chins in this picture! (Some of us can use all the help we can get.)

Our annual conference is a great time to see folks who work in the far reaches of our area or who do jobs where our paths don't often cross. We had an afternoon to sight see in the Matsushima area. Did a walking tour of a small island connected by a longish foot bridge with several others. Hit all the souvenir shops, of course and sampled pear ice cream, which in Japan is called La France for reasons I have not yet discovered, and a local specialty - Zunda - which turns out to be chopped, cooked, sweetened edamame. They use it in the same things they do sweet bean paste. It may be an acquired taste.

The Pie Lesson

Today, I had four Japanese women over to my place for a pie lesson. It all started with the apple pie I made for the Christmas dinner last year. One of the people at the party decided it would be great if I would give a lesson on how to make American Apple Pie. It's taken almost 6 months, but we finally did it yesterday. Wouldn't my mother have been amazed that I was teaching women in Japan to do what she taught me as a child?

There are also some pictures of my apartment here on the slide show. None of the kitchen or bath though, maybe later. To view the album with captions with the pictures, double click on the slide show. When your browser takes you to Picasa and my Albums, click on 'Georgia's Apple Dumpling', or view any of the other of my public albums by clicking on them.