Update and visit to Tottori

Last time I posted was about 2 weeks ago and I mentioned that a friend was coming over with a geiger counter to measure the radiation. Well we went round various parts of our house and found levels of 0.2 milisievelts/hr or there abouts. Outside on the grass was higher at 0.36. So we started a cleaning regime and have got the levels down already. This is still not as low as 0.05 or whatever Iwaki would have had before the power plant meltdown, but is also a lot less than people in other parts of Fukushima are living with and similar to what a lot of people are living with but they don't realise cause they live outside Fukushima prefecture.

2 days ago we headed off on our Obon vacation. Back down to Tottori 1000kms away from Iwaki. We set off in the afternoon and drove all night, got here before lunch the next day. DH drove 950kms of it...poor guy. I was in charge of Amelia for obvious reasons and that slowed us down a bit as every time she needed to be fed we would have to stop for about a good half hour or longer.  She did sleep for most of the way and only had a meltdown for a bit once. It's nice to be here in Tottori where there are no earthquakes and DH's mum feeds us well! It was so nice to see Sebastian (remember my dog?) again after nearly 5 months. He is a bit bigger and less crazy than when we left him here. He has been getting used to Amelia. At first he barked every time he saw or heard her. But now he hardly barks at all at her and is not so interested in her anymore. So it looks like we will be able to take him home with us, in that he and Amelia can co-exist together well I think. I'm not looking forward to the drive back to Iwaki with a baby and a dog, but somehow we will make it I'm sure.