Our morning started off as usual with breakfast, and Hannah cutting confetti. She is obsessed with using her scissors this week. She can cut equally well with her right and left hand...which leads me to believe she will be ambidextrious. I wonder if she will be good playing instruments because of this? After we left her at school we walked the nature area behind our home. We explored the graveyard area and Grammy says it looks like a mini skyscraper city. The area was locked up behind gates, so we could not get too close to it all. Our research says that 99.8% are cremated and then placed in the family grave. The ritual includes two family members holding a bone of the body with chopsticks to carefully place into the urn, starting with the feet so as not to have the person layed in upside down.
Later we biked to an older area of Yokohama and shopped a little and then had tomkutsu, which is lightly fried pork cutlet on rice. There were no forks, so Grammy was forced to use chop sticks...which she struggles with. (but at least it was not bones!)
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