Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Shaken



     Our son and delightful daughter-in-law are on their honeymoon, delayed a bit from their June wedding.
They had originally planned to go to South America, but changed their minds after gentle lobbying from both sides of the family. Sending newlyweds into the heart of zika country seemed counter-intuitive.

          They took off for their flight on Sunday and now that I no longer had escalating plague to worry about, I instead concentrated on my son’s knees. A  13 hour flight is no friend to a man over 6’ 4” with bad knees. My husband, no stranger to long flights and bad knees himself, assured me that on those long, long flights there’s room to get up and move about.

          As it turned out, I should have unflexed my worry muscle and saved it for later. When the happy couple decided against South America, they instead chose Japan.

          Last night we received this email from our son:

I just woke up to the bed shaking uncontrollably. Grabbed our stuff and now in the hotel lobby. News saying 7.2

          I’m now the world authority on the geography of Japan, not to mention the relation of the kids’ itinerary to the epicenter. Whoo boy. Another 10 days of their trip left. As odds go, zika’s looking pretty good about now.

9 comments:

  1. OMG! That's terrible. I heard about the quake and am glad they are all right. How very scary. Our world doesn't seem very safe right now, anywhere. :-(

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  2. Yikes! How scary! I'm glad they came through OK. At least the Japanese are experienced in these matters. That's probably cold comfort, but it's something.

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  3. great timing! but you shouldn't have worried about Zika. all that bs about it causing microencephaly was wrong. the doctors where is was happening blamed pesticides.

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  4. Being so far from them will make you worries greater. If you were there you would see that they are OK and now have a very interesting honeymoon story for the rest of their lives!

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  5. Oh dear, that is concerning. Our son lived 7 years in Japan. He is tall and blond and the young people and children treated him like a movie star. He was always being stopped by strangers to have their picture made with him. Japan is not designed for people 6'4".

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  6. They are safe, and having an adventure. The people worrying are the grown ups.

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  7. I've read about the earthquake online. I'm sure your son and his wife are okay. They'll keep in touch and reassure you as often as they can.

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  8. Good grief, there just aren't many safe places to visit these days. So glad they are OK and hope that is all they encounter. It will be a memorable honeymoon for many reasons.

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  9. Wow! It seems like sometimes you can't win. My daughter was Thailand when they had the earthquake and tsunami. she was in the interior. I worried for 20 min when I got an email saying she was okay.

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