Home to Suzhou

On Sunday, January 8, we had to get up early to catch a flight to return to China.  As I write this, it is almost 3 weeks later and Suzhou sounds like a battle zone, due to all the fireworks being set off for the Chinese New Year festival.  This means I still have to catch up on nearly three weeks and bore you now with a bunch of Chinese New Year stories.  Apologies for falling so far behind.

It was a clear blue day when we took off from Osaka airport.  About 30 minutes into the flight, Theresa snapped the photo above, of the Japanese coastline.  It was only when we got back to Suzhou that we realized that the photo shows the bay and the city of Hiroshima.  It's a perfect match to one of aerial photos on display in the Peace Park museum.  Ground Zero is about one third of the way up from the bottom and one quarter of the way from the right side.