In late November of 1983--in my first month's employment in the president's office at SMU--Vicki and I traveled with the senior administration to attend the Mirage Bowl in Tokyo, and then stayed another week with the president and provost and others as guests of sister university Kwansei Gakuin, near Osaka and Kyoto. Whether hosted by the Mirage Bowl or by KGU, we were the beneficiaries of legendary Japanese hospitality. There is no way we could ever top that visit. Plus there was a football game.
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| View from our hotel room |
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| At the Mirage Bowl, even more pageantry than an American football bowl game |
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| Our cottage at the inn near Kyoto |
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| Vicki by the water feature; scenes like this led to our trying our own hands at Japanese gardening...alas, the soils and climate of Dallas are very different from those of Edo and Kyoto... |
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| Autumn in the garden |
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| At a palace |
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| "I'll drink to that!" |
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| Eating very fresh lobster at the all-lobster restaurant in Osaka; among quite a few memorable incidents from that trip; this occasion gave new and special meaning to the expression "live lobster" |
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| At the sushi bar after the honorary degree ceremony; I was seated between Vicki and the dean of international education, both unwilling to eat raw fish, trying to cover for them and not offend our hosts... |
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