Rainy days

We are having some rainy days this week. We need the rain, but miss the sunshine. 

Last night before bed. She was washing a dolly diaper with the sponge from the sink in a bowl of soapy water. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

All pink and ready to go out in the rain! She wouldn’t smile because her backpack was too heavy. I took out her lunch box out and she carried it.

Today was the last day of the month of the military child so they have out popsicles and candy to the kids after school. Daddy let her have the popsicle.

Dad, these last pictures are for you. The top one is too how you that the flowers in Emma’s Easter picture at chapel was azealas like you said. The bottom one, well, at least I didn’t find an opossum there! Yikes! 

Going to the Hard-off

A Hard-off is a thrift store here. It is always fun to look around. Tonight we were searching for a birthday present for Robbie. His party is next week and tomorrow Golden week starts...so we had to do it tonight. We also needed Daddy to help us, as we girls are no good at buying boy presents. He wanted to get him some LEGO people. They have tons of legos that he used to have when he was a kid. Unfortunately, the dragon was gone, but we got an alligator man, maybe a ninja, and some sort of warrior on a horse with lots of armor, etc. Emma also talked us into getting ice cream out of a vending machine. 

This is how she went. We found the shoes for free in the basement! They light up, too.

We always find fun stuff.

Only in Japan can you get ice cream out of a vending machine. 

I tasted it. It was ok...not my favorite. But she was happy.


Robbie’s present 

Videos!

I finally uploaded a bunch of videos. Enjoy! 

Emma’s weather report

Snow and cherry blossoms

Jumping rope 

Floor game at Round 1

Round 1 hover board thing

Daddy and Emma skating

Super girl

Super girl was at our house tonight.

This is a very Japanese thing to do in pictures 

Happy Easter!

We did not do much for Easter. I even had a nap! It was a very low key day. I was wishing we had done something, but then I remembered the last two Easter’s, and I was fine with low key. Last year was our last full day in CA, and we had to say goodbye, sell the van and pack up. The year before was one of my first weeks of working at chapel. I was at the chapel for 8 hours, including the sunrise service, and were were gone for 13 hours. When we came home Pepper threw up 5 times...that was there week we found out she was dying. So, a day with a nap sounds great. We also had 5 baptisms at chapel!!!  Two former Buddhists and 2 former Mormons, and an 11 year old girl whose mom is at PWOC. It was a great way to end the day. 

There was an Easter Egg hunt downstairs. I was in the shower and I got a text from Steven about it. He let Emma do it. She had no basket, but helped Robbie. They didn’t get much, but they had a blast. It lasted all of 5 seconds. 

These pictures are from Robbie’s mom. They are the same age.





I didn’t take a picture of her Easter basket before she got into it. But this is the stuff inside. 

The sign she made for her room with her stickers.





When I got up from my nap, Steven said she was at Sophia’s house (2nd floor) painting eggs. She had fun and got cookies.

Cheese

Showa Park

Prepare for an onslaught of photos! 

Cherry blossom on base

Smelling cherry blossoms at Showa

The giant field

They are having a tulip festival, so I took a million pictures 



They just kept going!







This is how the Japanese pose for pictures 









There are so many people and photographers, it was almost hard to get around or take pictures, plus my family was tired, so I just took quick pictures.

Round 1

Today we went to Round 1. It is a....large activity place? The first one had bowling, an arcade, etc. It was close to base, but Steven knew there was a better one, so we went to that one. It was crazy. I can’t even tell you all we did. We got a 90-minute pass, and basicallly spent 5 minutes doing a lot of different things. I see how you could spend all day there. I couldn’t even take pictures of everything. Here is a list of what they have that I can remember: trampoline room, hover board rink thing, skating rink, mini bowling, billiards, tennis, batting cage, golf, badminton, soccer, basketball, tennis, a ginormous play area for little kids, and that is seriously only about half of what they have there. It was crazy and we couldn’t even get to everything in 90 minutes! Next time I will take more pictures, but this is good for now:

At the first one. Throwing things at the screen.

Mario Kart

She wanted to be Princess Peach

It’s so much fun to be the driver!

She won! 

At the big one. Daddy riding a bull. 



You stack up the cubes so the characters can get the apples.

Giant balloons 

More, smaller balloons.

Shooting balls at each other 

There were so many things to do in this place.

Fill the bottom so it goes to the top and dumps all the balls out.

🤷‍♀️

Japan has the coolest things. This was a game that was projected on the floor. I will try to upload all my videos tomorrow. 

Emma almost hitting Daddy with her gold club

She needed some help

I don’t know what these are called. Stevennwas much better at it than I was, as you will see in the video tomorrow.

Roller skating goes about as well as jump roping. 



Here Daddy, you try this. 



And let me hop on, too! 

😂😂🤷‍♀️

We tried to win a minion, but no luck. Emma was very sad. They have a million of these machines here. 

I accidentally left my lights on in the car while we were inside having fun...so the car was dead when we got out. You have to have a Japanese phone to call our insurance to get roadside assistance, but when I told Steven that he just flagged someone down and jumped it real quick. I was very thankful. We had a fun day, and will definitely go back!