Miho Museum

Took the women's club trip to the Miho Museum. It took along time (2 trains and a bus) to get there and back. Had a nice little lunch consisting of 2 peices each of egg sandwich and potato sandwich with a tiny cup of some heirloom rice. It was very tasty. Spent some time wandering around the museum, then realized we didn't recognize anybody. Thought we had somehow been left behind, but finally met up with the remnants of our group. It seems alot of our group left early, but failed to fill us in on this option. We finally got home around 5:40pm. A terribly long day! Well, I tried to put some pictures on, but can't seem to do it right now. Will add them later--I hope!

VOTE

That's right! We voted last night! Finally got our absentee ballots, read them over carefully and marked our ballots. Now, if I can just get them down to the post office in time. Fingers crossed!

Wild Boar Attack

Yes, It finally happened! Here's how it went down:
We were walking home about 9:30pm. The rest of the family wanted to go a different way. I knew it was wrong, but they insisted they knew, so I said "you go your way, I'll go mine, and we'll see who gets home first". Travelling on foot by myself, I had just come out of the territory of the Silk Pillow Gang. I said hi to Patches and a few of the others that were lounging on the wall there. As I came around a bend in the road, there it was.......a big pig! I stopped immediately. It tried to stare me down. I managed to get my phone and tried to call the family (knowing they were behind me, since they didn't know where they were going). The call wouldn't go through, so I decided to take the pig's picture. I switched to camera mode and the beast began making a move toward me. I scrambled over a low fence situated to my rear and tried to hide by a tree. Unfortunately it was too dark to take a photo. The pig then came up a walk-way around the fence to make its way toward me. I jumped back over the fence to the road and scurried around the next bend, calling the family at the same time. I got through and found out they were just entering the SP Gang area and told them to be on the look out for a mad pig. The husband & girl came safely around the curve, but the boy had stayed behind to try to lure the pig out into the open. Luckily the pig didn't fall for it and the boy ran to catch up with us, without incident. We walked cautiously the rest of the way home, with no further pig problems.
And that's how I was nearly eaten alive by a wild boar!