From Sado with Love

Every day the scenery gets better and better. I see things, and I think, it can't get any better than this, and then I am proven wrong. Part of the credit goes to Mother Nature. The Fall Colors just keep changing to richer tones of red and yellow. The rest of the credit goes to the Niigata GSE committee that arranged our schedule. Talk about saving the best for last. We have just spent two days on Sado Island, and enjoyed scenes of beautiful mountains, fantastic sea scapes, and Japanese heritage like no where else. I'm going to attempt to include a few pictures here. Everyone else is good at this. Hopefully it won't take me too long to figure out how to put pictures into a blog. Here goes:

This picture if from our visit to the Tagame Elementary school. The children were wonderful. It was a wonderful experience to feel the childrens excitement at our coming to their school.

I told you earlier about the great time we had at the Niigata Albirex Soccor game. This group of fans coninued to sing, dance, and cheer for 30 minutes after the game was over. The excitement was a like a fever that spread to all of us. We didn't want to leave the stadium.

Back to Sado. This is Kenja in front of a 300 year old shrine. It was a picture perfect place to enjoy Japanese tradition without the crowds that you get in places like Kyoto. If the world ever discovers Sado Island they will need to add more boats for transporting people back and forth.