Tom and Teresa getting festive at Festivus

Grub time at Festivus

Christina at Festivus

Teresa, Kara, and me in Hiroshima

Hiroshima

Hiroshima A-bomb Peace Park

Peace Flame that will burn until all nuclear arms are destroyed

Origami Cranes, symbols of peace

More cranes

Teresa, Sabrina, Christina, Kara, and me in Hiroshima

The A-bomb Dome

The A-bomb Dome (again)

The gang posing with an A-bomb survivor who was kind enough to share his story with us

An artist at Miyajima

The gang in front of the famous Torii at Miyajima

The 5-Storied Pogada of Hokoku Shrine on Miyajima

Autumn colors

More autumn colors

The stairway to heaven
(well, really to the Daishoin Temple)

Budda statues

Budda

3 Monkeys

Daishoin Temple

View en route to top of Miyajima

Some ritual atop Miyajima that involved a lot of chanting, beeping, and rowing moves

More of the ritual

Nancy and Jose at Ganga for Thanksgiving

Jose and Amanda at Ganga

Jose and Amanda

Christina and Amanda

Teresa and Mary

The gang at Ganga

The Children's Peace Monument in honor of the 12-year old girl who folded 1000 cranes because she had cancer

close up of the Childrens Peace Monument

The crane inside the monument

Cranes

More cranes

The A-bomb Dome

Monument to honor all the laborers killed by the bomb

Bell of Peace sign

Bell of Peace

Monument to the Korean victims of the bomb (in honor of the 20,000 forced laborers from Korea that were killed)

Famous Torii Gate on Miyajima

Again, Torii Gate

Shadowed man

Monkey sign atop Miyajima

Monkeys

Another classic sign

Kara gettin' some love

A teacher and her student...most of Hiroshima's school children were in schools right where the bomb fell

Cranes beneath the teacher

close up

The Purple People at the Midyear Converence:
Adam, Adele, and Kara

Ruan

Ruan again