They say the Innuit have 300 words for snow. I am surprised the islanders don't have a similar vocabulary for the sea. On Monday Wakana and I drove to Hagatna. When we reached the light at the bottom of the hill we could see the ocean and it looked like a sea of diamonds. It was almost flat calm. You could barely make out the reef, there was no surf on it. The sun shone down on the water and broke into millions of sparkles. It was absolutely lovely.

Then, yesterday we had a day of rain. Wakana and I were driving down Marine Drive. The sea was still calm though there was more surf on the reef. But the clouds overhead were heavy with rain and the sun was hard to find. Off to the east the clouds appeared to be thinner and the light stronger. The water was steel gray, dark to the left and right of the area under the break in the clouds. But under that break the water was bright silver. The surf wasn't white. It formed a dark line down the length of the reef. The whole scene was somewhat surreal and lost. I'd never seen the ocean with that look in her eye. It was beautiful

Wakana is headed back to Japan again. Yesterday she finally got her immigration visa interview appointment. She has to be at the embassy on Monday morning at 9:30. After that she will be legal. I guess you could say we are making an honest woman out of her. We went to the embassy for her visa because we thought it would be cheaper. A friend of hers paid a lawyer to do all the work and it cost her $2,000. Our direct expenses have been less but theincidental expenses of airfare and hotels and restaurants have totaled up to about the same thing. Still, we enjoyed the collateral circumstances of being in Japan so that must count for something.