Yesterday, May 26, Ayako's sister Masako and brother Masanobu, and his wife arrived from Honshu.

  Yesterday, May 26, Saturday, at around 11:00 a.m., Masa-chan arrived by train from Nagano, when it suddenly began to rain and hail. In the afternoon, at around 4:30, Masanobu-kun and his wife came from Tochigi. Today,we are going to attend the 7th memorial Buddhist service for Ayako's mother to be held in Sunagawa. After the service in Sunagawa, we will go to Sapporo, and stay there at Sapporo Prince Hotel to have a party with our relatives and stay overnight there and return home tomorrow evening.
 After Ayako's sister and brother arrived yesterday, I had to go to the party of the neighborhood association to farewell the former staff members and welcome new members. We enjoyed eating, drinking, and talking at Tsubohachi restaurant, and I returned home just after 8:00 o'clock.