Masanobu and Sawako-san and Masako and Yasuhiro-san left us and returned yesterday.

  Masanobu-kun and his wife, Sawako-san, and Masa-chan and her husband, Yasuhiro-san have left us and returned to Honshu yesterday. In the morning, Masanobu-kun and his wife Sawako-san left for Noboribetsu to enjoy hot spring bathing and sightseeing there on their way back home to Tochigi. In the afternoon, Yasuhiro-san came from Sapporo, who had stayed in Sapporo after having attended our party, and joined his wife Masa-chan and at around 5:00, took the train and left for Nagano. Masa-chan could not walk well because she had had a surgery in her right hip joint. She said she felt pain in her left leg. She was afraid she would have to have a surgery in her left leg, this time.