My parents and sister arrived from Germany yesterday, just ahead of the typhoon that limits their sight-seeing options today and tomorrow. Hopefully, the weather will be better over the weekend when we are all going to Nagoya for the 2005 World Exhibition. Come to think of it, these typhoons regularly shut down the train system for hours, so if we had planned to go today, we might not have been able to get there at all. After Nagoya, they will go on to visit Kyoto on Monday (without Cissy and me, who have to work), return to Tokyo on Tuesday, and fly back home on Wednesday.