Camp pics and Tokyo

L's camp shared photos from the week and here are a few. I think the above picture was between taking a goofy picture and a serious picture. Of course, everyone is serious in this photo but my L (middle of second row from the top).

I'm assuming she's reading a Bible passage to the camp in this photo. It was church camp, after all.

L was concerned the creek was too high this year to do a creek walk, but they did!

It's always fun to wrap a fellow camper in toilet paper.

And what's camp without a canoe ride? She also swam a lot and played on a slip n' slide.

E's group left Akita Saturday. They had to be at the airport 11 a.m. Japan time to fly an hour to Tokyo. The message last night was short and sweet. We got a bit of a longer email this afternoon from her teacher, who is up early Monday (Japan time) to go to a fish market.

Sunday, June 29

We got to Tokyo! More later.


Monday, June 30

Good morning! It is 4:45 am. A group of us are going to the Tsukiji Fish Market this morning. Most of the kids are staying and sleeping in.

We got to Tokyo okay yesterday evening. We went to Tokyo Tower in the evening. It was so pretty! It was like floating in a giant jewelry box. We got back around 9:30 and we were so tired, we all went to bed.

The goodbye in Akita was very emotional hard. Lots of tears. Deaton Sensei pulled the kids at the front, I pushed from behind and Joe Sensei took care of the run-aways. We all went through the security and dried our tears. Our plane was delayed for a little bit and we finally boarded the plane an hour later. As we were walking to the plane, we saw the students and families on the roof of the airport waving. We couldn't believe that they were still there! Just when we recovered from our tears, it started again .... It was so sweet of them to stay and see us take off. The goodbye party was emotional too. It was held at the very prestigious hall in the city. Very fancy. We had a great time with the families and our students did a great job with their speeches. Everyone spoke from the heart and it was very touching. A lot of tears there as well.

Oh, fish are waking up. I have to meet them! More later.