So I know many of you think we have fallen off the planet since it has been awhile since our last post. But we are still alive, and we haven't fallen off the planet, we are just on the other side in beautiful Misawa, Japan. It is going to take me a little while to catch up since our lives have been so hectic the last couple of months and we have taken a lot of pics already. So here is just a recap of what we been up until I get caught up with all our pics.
So after we left Omaha at the end of June, we spent a few weeks in Utah seeing family and friends. We had a great time hanging out with everyone and we miss you guys and wish you could be here on this adventure with us. After missing our flight to Japan, long story, we did make it out the next day and after two days of travel we made it to Misawa. It took us a week to adjust to the time zone, and Chase had a really rough first night. Cole had to walk the halls at our hotel since our neighbors were banging on the wall at 3:00 in the morning. And upon arriving to Misawa, we stayed in temporary living facility for a few weeks. And we were so glad to move into our 4 bedroom, 2 bath house last week and sleep in our own beds. I am still in the process of getting everything put away, and Chase is loving the mess cause he has so many mores things to play with.
We don't officially get internet till the 23rd which is why it seems like we have disappeared, we are excited it is fiber optic(super fast), and right now our connection is either really slow or hit and miss. We love our house and we have great views of a forest and a cabbage field. And I love the heated toilet seats. We will post pictures soon.
Other than that we have been to a couple of different festivals, we celebrated Chase's first birthday, and found out Cole is being deployed in December for 6 months. We also finally closed on our house today back in Omaha, and just got back from a fun day with friends at an arts and crafts village where we made japanese noodle soups, decorated little wooden japanese horses, and made some sort of japanese peanut cookies.
Will try to get pics posted soon of everything.
Right after we arrived to Misawa, our sponsor picked us up and we headed to Misawa Air Base. We actually share this air force base with the japanese air force, so that is why they have a sign right next to ours. Their are mostly americans on the base, but their is a strong japanese presence. The town of Misawa has 40,000 people with 10,000 of them being Americans. We stayed in the tlf(temporary living facilities) for two weeks which felt like we were on a never ending vacation. It had a little kitchen, family room, and one bedroom with a washer and dryer down the hall. It wasn't too bad and Chase finally decided one night that he would start walking here. So that was a lot of fun. The picture with him and Cole's hat was taken right after he started walking (two weeks before he turned one). The last picture is our first experience at a restaurant in Japan with the Broughs and Farnsworths. It was a chinese restaurant over at a mall about 10 min. from our place, known as Shimoda or Aeon mall. When you order at restaurants around here, you don't know exactly what you are ordering since most menus are in japanese. But they do have pictures in the menus and they have the actual dishes of what you can order in their display windows which is a little different. Our meal was really good and Chase was enjoying it as well.
