A Decision

Well, we have made a decision. For now, I am going to take the train tomorrow to Kyoto and stay with a friend from seminary for about 5-7 days, if she will have Miyako and I that long. :) My doctor did give me a note to travel internationally. From what we have read, I can travel up until 30 days before my due date on most flights, so I have until the end of March. We ran through several options - go to the US with a return ticket of March 30th and if things get worse then stay there; go visit a friend in Hong Kong for a week; go visit a friend in Sydney for a week; or go somewhere more local like Kyoto. For those of you who do not know, Kyoto is south of Tokyo. I will be 450 miles southwest of the radiation plants. My friend said everything is running normally in Kyoto. They are not having aftershocks. There are no issues there of power loss or food shortage right now because they run on a different electric company than the Eastern part of the country (Japan is divided into East and West - Tokyo is considered East). Kan and I both feel like it is best to give it another week or so and see if life gets back to normal here in Tokyo. We have sought wisdom from a man we trust who has professional experience in the nuclear industry. We have prayed earnestly. The reality is I do not want to be too far from Kan. And I do not want to fly back to the US and then back to Tokyo in ten days by myself with a two year old if things do in fact get better. Because I have a couple more weeks travel time frame, we thought it would be good to get me out of Tokyo for awhile. My friend speaks Japanese so I will not be alone in that sense. The city is running like normal. We believe that it is either going to get really bad in the next five days or start to get better in Tokyo. If we see it taking a downward slope, at that point, we will meet in Osaka and fly back to the US together. We appreciate your prayers.