What is summer without. . . "Aisu"?!? You definitely have to look for the right places to find ice cream here, but in a "tourist town" like Karuizawa, that wasn't a problem. Not eating too much was. . . Taken with Doris (left -- the teacher I I "filled in" for last year when she was studying Japanese), and Andrea (who just arrived in Osaka this February). We had a great time together during the conference; shopping at the outlet mall, studying Japanese at the Christian language school there, and, as you can see, treating ourselves!