Hot summer

It has been a hot summer already everywhere. I know that the US is having a heat wave this week across many areas. We just moved from rainy season into summer here in Japan around the first week of July, and the temperatures have been in the 90s many days so far. In a typical traditional Japanese house, like Yukari's family home here in Niigata prefecture, there is no air conditioning. In fact, as you can see below, there is little furniture -- you can sit and sleep on the soft tatami floor.

 

But we do have a little pool that we have been enjoying in the front yard this week, and Luke has been loving it! Ian even joins his brother there for a few minutes every now and then.