House Pics!

To all of our friends in Japan, we have been promising you pictures for a while now. Here are some I took recently.

Best Farewell Gift So Far

Don is very excited about this!

Notes From Don's Students

I have to agree with Wakana, but I'm wondering how much English she learned if that's what she was paying attention to.

Matsuri Outfits!

Here are some of my students in their festival outfits!

Bonus Pics!!!

Enjoy!!

Shiretoko #2

Some more pictures of our adventure!

Second Anniversary!! Shiretoko, July 2-5 Album #1

This is the trip we took for our second anniversary.  We were so excited to go because Shiretoko is a place we have wanted to see since we first arrived.  With time winding down it was looking like we weren't going to get the chance to go but we made it!  Yay!  It was an amazing experience.  We saw so much nature!  Bears, deer, foxes, dolphins, waterfalls, mountains, sunsets, birds.... it was great.  Shiretoko is a World Heritage Site preserved because of its untouched nature.  Most of the park is closed to only advanced hikers with special government permits.  For us novices there are tour boats that take you up and down the coast which is where we saw the bears and some of the most amazing cliffs and rock formations that we have ever seen.  Amazing waterfalls too.  I don't think we did much talking during the trip, mostly oohhed and  aahhed and told each other to "look at this," and "holy crap, look over there!."  We took a million pics and are finally getting more skilled at getting better colors out of our shots with the new camera.  We took too many pics for one album so a second post is coming soon.