"Date with the Emperor!"

Yes, today the Japanese Emperor and his wife arrived here in Sweden, Stockholm.
They're here for the celebratio of the Swedish Carl von Linné 300 years celebration. At this photo, they're shaking hands with the Swedish Crown princess Victoria. (LINK)

For the welcome, the kids and their parents at the Japanese School in Stockholm was invited to welcome the Emperor to a place called Hagaparken in Stockholm.
This was planned to take place outside, but unfortunately just at the moment when they where to arrive at Hagaparken, it started to rain slightly, so only the kids (and me and my brother...) and the teachers were able to go to the entrance to welcome them. The parents couldn't participate, because of the small area at the entrance.

We stood there waving the flags of Sweden and Japan, the kids was as kids usually are, noisy. The police and security guards where standing here and there, two camera men with their two lightening men was at place too (think they came from Japan...), and we waited.

At last, they arrived, with many police cars and black cars. When they walked in, all the kids got quiet and just looked with big eyes. The Emperor and his wife greeted us with some talk, after them came Princess Victoria, asking some of us if we could speak Japanese AND Swedish etc.

It was kind of unbelieveable feeling, standing there greeting highly people I've only seen on TV and newspapers. But the Emperor and his wife was so cute! Both had the same nyance of gray hair, they where just the perfect heigh for each other and had big smiles when seing us.
Unfortunately, the most exciting of us, the parents, couldn't participate at all. Mum asked us thousands of questions afterwards. I felt a bit sorry for them, just because of little rain in bad time.

Yesterday was such a beautiful sunny day, and this morning was okay too! But just the one hour when the Emperor arrived, it had to start to rain, and not much either. Because after the arrival, the rain stopped and the sun was looking out a bit.
No luck this time...

But now, it's raining quite much here at home... (-.-)