We Live Where We Are

It is Hanami season, Japan's favorite time of the year. Which means you hang out under the cherry blossom trees with your friends to celebrate the arrival of spring by drinking sake until you're too inebriated to point straight.
We hanami-ed it up in Shiroishi, a thirty minute train ride south, home of the famous Shiroishi castle and annual winter home for Siberia's migrating swans. Below is Maria "ants-in-her-pants" Filippone and I giddy off the blossoms, and hamming it up for Casey.