evening. Along with their other guests, Yukiko dressed us up like dolls and let us play in her beautiful and delicate collection of kimonos and fans. Rene (Yukiko's Dutch hubby) and Matt stayed off to there own until Yuikiko dug up a manly man's kimono for Matt to put on... He graciously played along so that I could take pictures. Last time he did that we were in Egypt and that guy didn't get his permission before gowning him like a sheik. This was much more enjoyable.Today, I got to go in service with one of the sisters who dressed up with us, Karen.
She's been away in Finland, but has returned. She had made a lovely cake for our desert last night, but it failed to make the journey, so we got to have a sliver of apple strawberry deliciousness on our lunch break at her apartment. Desserts always seem better the next day anyhow :)We had a startling beginning to our service day though. After walking for a while towards a call, and having chatted with a few people along the path, we spoke to a friendly man from Nigeria. As we moved on, we heard a loud bone rattling crash behind us, and when we turned we found him crashed out on the icy pavement we narrowly
missed falling on ourselves. It took a handful of people and a good deal of worry to get him back in a condition that we felt ok leaving him. About five minutes went by before he stirred at all, another 10 to get him to sit up, and another few before we could get him to speak his name. With a bloody lip and huge bump on his head, a few good Samaritans helped get him to a doctors office around the corner to be sure he had no concussion. The weather here is no joke!Matt has a bundle of big wigs in the office for the week, so he's going to have an exciting week ahead.
We're looking forward more and more to having State-side company here to visit in a few short days (Leanna). Hopefully she'll bring a little California sun with her!
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