Earthquake Diary 45

 In these pictures we are still on our trip to the York Town Shopping Center. It was very surprising to see the parking lot with so many cars. According to the newspaper and TV, there is only about 70% of the gasoline that was available last year. So this many people driving to the shopping center was unexpected. However, thinking about it I guess that people were planning on buying a lot and needed the cars to take all the stuff home.

 This is my granddaughter Tomone Yatsu.

 Tomone wanted to eat ramen (noodles). in fact, she had been talking about it since she got up. This shop has very good ramen and they were open. As with many restaurants the menu was reduced, only five or six items, but we ate and it was delicious. Plus Tomone was happy.

 After we ate we shopped at Sato Shokai and did some shopping.

 This is the yard of a takubin company. Takubin is like the American UPS. They deliver parcels from door to door. They are behind in their services because of road damage and the lack of gas, but they are trying hard. Actually my older daughter sent a package, a children's magazine for Tomone, from Tokyo and it arrived in less than 24 hours. The man that delivered it said that most packages were take two to four times as long as usual. Apparently because the magazine package was small, it was constantly just thrown in with larger packages, so it came right through as fast as possible.

 Part way home we passed a park with children's play area. Since we had nothing special to do and no where special to be, we let Tomone play as long as she wanted.