What I did on my Summer Vacation
	These beautiful decorations are for Tanabata - a summer festival in Sendai, Japan.
	That's me peeking out from behind the streamers.
	An open-air market in sendai. I ate lots and lots of delicious watermelon in Japan.
	This is my friend, Eileen (on the left), enjoying a tasty festival treat. Eileen lives in Sendai.
	Wow! A boat that looks like a dragon.
	This is Setsuko Suzuta, a fellow hiker at Yamadera. There are 1015 steps that wind up the mountain through the dark forest.
	Here's another hiker - she climbed all 1015 steps with her happy baby brother on her back!
	It is very beautiful at the very top of all those steps. I had a wonderful time visiting with my friend Eileen in Japan.

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