Christmas in Japan


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Christmas in Japan Craig was serving in the army when we were married and he was sent to Japan two weeks after our wedding. I joined him one day before our first wedding anniversary in Kyoto, Japan. Excited to have our first Christmas together since we married, and just finding out that our first child was on the way, we were especially excited for Christmas. We wanted a Christmas tree but really didn't see how we could afford one on a Corporal’s pay. We decided to go find one and cut it down. We did and on the way home, several Japanese people were yelling at us and we couldn't understand why. We put our tree up and then it began… First of all, we found out that we had gone up a sacred mountain where emperors had been buried when Kyoto was the capital of Japan. Then to finish it off, we had scrimped to buy some ornaments and had it all decorated when we had an earthquake that shook the tree so hard that most of our ornaments fell off and broke. This was truly a Christmas to remember.

-- Sue Sutphin