Visiting Japan!!!
SAKURA!! The cherry blossom!! Yes, they have already bloomed. There are many kinds of Sakura trees. This is the tree near our house. It might be the Kawazu breed which is famous as the early flowering cherry tree. Cherry trees usually come into bloom earlier during warmer weather. Every year, the prediction of the first date of the cherry blossoms is announced around the beginning of March. It would be around the 21st of March in Tokyo this year. Their lives are short. Cherry trees fully blossom about a week after they start to bloom, and petals will scatter to the ground. They usually only last for about a week after the peak date of full bloom. I hope cherry blossoms are going to be full bloom just on the right time around the forth week of March this year. WHY? Papa Gordon & Mama Susan are coming to Japan on the 19th of March. They are Satolela papa's parents. In Japan, you should call your parents-in-law 'father' and 'mother' . But I n...