End of festival

1 week Ocean Science Meeting ended. As usual, it was like festival rather than scientific meeting, because we can meet many old friends and new friends. See you next year again.
After the meeting, I visited Iuri & Ilsa’s house to celebrate their marriage with their friends from FL, OH and HI. Their house looked like restaurant with lanai and good night view. I could not believe that I was in their home and celebrate them, because I met each of them at different places in different time. Today, I had another surprise. Ryan from Ohio said that my friend was hired in his lab as technician managing mass spectrometer and he is supposed to work there from April. I worked him several times at Ishigaki Island in Okinawa. When we had “Okonomi yaki (Japanese style pancake) in Shinjyuku last January, just before I left Tokyo, he told me that he wanted to work in foreign country as lab technician. Dream came true for him. Good luck!