Last Saturday

This last saturday was quite an adventure. Rob came and picked up Jeremy, Doug and I to go look for this "trench" cave thing located somewhere near Nishihara, not to far from our house. We didn't know where we were looking, or really if we were even looking on the right hill, but we set out to find this place in search for war artifacts. Rob and Jeremy had received some extremely vague directions as to where "Conical hill" was, and so we were pretty much wandering around in the brush of a big hill for a couple of hours, wondering if we would find anything. We found some old pieces of something and lots of bombed out little spots, but nothing special. We ended up climbing to the top of the hill, only to find a trail that led from the top of the hill to about exactly where our car was parked...needless to say, the discovery was a bit shaming and we felt pretty lame after climbing uphill through jungle for a good hour. It was fun though, and we might go back again to look for the cave.


Saturday night we headed to a festival kind of thing in Naha where some of us got to dress up. I forgot what the festival was for, but by the time we got there it was pretty much closing down and we only stayed there for an hour-and-a-half. It was a beautiful night though, and the whole thing was held in a park area up against an inlet of ocean water. : D. The Jimbay's, what Doug is sporting, were really comfortable and fit you like a bath robe. The girl's beautiful dresses, I think they're called Kimono's, were donated by Kayo. If you couldn't already tell, everyone in Japan is obsessed with throwing up a peace sign in pictures...maybe one day I'll find out why that is. Hope everyone enjoys the pics. I enjoy this last picture because it illustrates how much we've all become like a big family over here. We're pretty much always together, something that has taught us and forced us to get along and put subtle differences aside. It's a growing process for sure, but the Lord has a way of meshing us together with people we'll grow with as well as from.