long lost stamp album

It is FINALLY time for a vacation in the US! This one is long overdue. And it is already over halfway finished.

One high point was finding my long-lost stamp album from about 30 years ago, when I first started collecting used postage stamps. It is now hopelessly out-of-date, but it has great sentimental value to me, taking me back to long afternoons in my grandmother's basement with stamps spread out everywhere.

On our last trip to the US, two years ago, I had just gotten interested in stamps again. I dug out that old album, buried in a closet, and reveled in the hundreds of pages. But my memory was blurred - a friend of someone in the family might have wanted to start collecting stamps, and I might have said they could have my old album....

So for the past year, I have been waiting and hoping.

And yes, I found it again, buried under the mountains of books I have stored in the basement. I won't be bringing it back to Japan, but now I know where it is for certain and that it will be waiting for me.

Actually, there were many more stamp-related surprises this visit....stay tuned for upcoming posts.

日本語 hints:
* out-of-date = too old, unfashionable, 時代遅れ
* sentimental value = 感情価値
* dug out = 掘り出した
* revel in = ....を大いに楽しむ／喜ぶ