Natural Disasters

My parents are now in Japan. It is really wierd being with them, but very good. I picked them up in Fukuoka and we spent Saturday shopping around. My dad is pointing out everything that strikes him as different and unusual. He is a very patriotic man. I was a little worried how they would handle the Japanese food but their first meal of yakiniku was a success. We have been eating lot of western food just because I haven't had it in ages. Sunday we went to Costco on the way home. I was standing by the bakery section when the floor started to shake. I was thinking 'what the heck is going on in the bakery?' when I realized it was an earthquake. The whole building was shaking. I immediately looked above me to see what could potentially fall on me and saw the whole ceiling shake. I think it lasted about 30 seconds (that felt like 5 minutes). The store was fine and we were fine but a little shook up so we left. We headed to the expressway only to find out that it was closed. We had to drive route 3 the whole way home. A 3 hour journey took us 7 hours to get home. It was awful, tons of traffic and through cities the whole way. I am a little apprehensive to go to Nagasaki this coming weekend. Hope everyone in Japan that is reading this was OK during the quake.