HAPPY HOLIDAYS We are running late with all our preparations for Christmas because we had just over a week in Tokyo in mid-December. We arrived home late on Sunday night. Various stressful issues were waiting for me at work, and as a result, we only got the Christmas tree up and STARTED doing our Christmas cards on Tuesday evening. Apologies to everyone we have missed due to our being all sixes and sevens. This was our first visit to Japan, and it was amazing. Five days holiday, two days work (cancer screening conference). We crammed a decent amount of tourism into the five days holiday. We stayed in Shinjuku, one of the several cities that make up the mega-city of Tokyo, within a couple of metro stops of the giant figure of Godzilla looking over some buildings into the street, the impressive Meiji Shinto shrine in several acres of parkland, the fish market, Tokyo Tower and the scramble crossing at Shibuya, reputed to be the busiest crossroads in the world. We also had a day v...