Wednesday, November 26th

We started the day with another green tea ceremony -- our fourth. That would be more than 90% of Japanese would have in a lifetime. The tea was dark green but not the bitter type. I was very grateful for that because each of us had to drink the entire cup of tea with my comment "I have never tasted anything quite like it". Then we went to a place where they have built a very large/wide gate that can be lowered in case of a tsunami to protect the port. They have a large fish market located next to it. I don`t know it if will work but it is an amazing engineering project. After a Japanese lunch we went to a traditional Japanese hotel where they had a ceramic arts area. Each of us were able to make a cup which we will use for green tea. I had time to make an additional cup for our Rotary Governor Ron Petersen. They will be mailing them to us in about two months. Each day seems to include a surprise and today it was a late this afternoon. We went on a large private boat for a cruise out on the Pacific Ocean and were able to watch the sunset with a beautiful cloudy sky. We enjoyed a brief hot springs bath followed by a ten-course chinese dinner.
Another wonderful day.
Ken