Goodbye party for Lance, Naomi and Ian and other March pics

 This was on March 11, 2013. Two years since the terrible earthquake and tsunami. We drove out to the Camelia Greenhouse where we spent the anniversary last year. On the way there we passed by this young boy, young man I should say. He is a high school student now. He was dressed in a kimono and doing a dance in the middle of a construction site. It was obvious that he was dancing for someone. He was standing on the ground where a home used to be, we could see the remains of the foundation of the home. He was a student of Gabe's in Jr. High School and Gabe remembered him well. He tried to take some photographs without disturbing or disrupting this public,yet very private and personal moment. We were both brought to tears. This was just before the sirens went off in memory of that day.

Here we are at the greenhouse. This is before the siren.

 Violet drew this picture for Daichi Ozawa's birthday card. She drew it all except for the bubble and the words inside it. She said the top face was Daddy, the curly hair is her and the boy with short hair is Daichi. He really liked his card.