Hands down this is my favorite time of year here in Misawa. Even though it is the rainy season, there are still days here and there that are full of sun shine and just make me so happy to soak up the warm rays. It is also fruit season and festival season. Right now the cherries are just so perfectly ripe, so we decided to go to a neighboring town called Nanbu which is a farming town known for their amazing fresh produce. At one of the farms you can pay a small fee to pick and eat all you can fruit for an hour. We invited our friends, the Drehers, to come along with us and together we all traveled south west to the quaint little Nanbu town.
The cherries were amazing, and I even let Brayden try a little bit. I would often loose Connor who, like his father, would occasionally get lost in picking and eating fruit. Both Connor and Kyle do not mess around when it comes to their fruit and both can put away dozens and dozens of cherries. I would tease Connor and ask him where all the cherries went and with his sticky hands covered in cherry juice he would lift up his shirt and point to his large pot belly and smile while saying "in my tummy!"
It was nice to catch up with our good friends and talk about the impending VML cycle that is coming up which we are both in. We went to B course with them and arrived here with them and now will find out our next assignment the same time as them. I think both the guys want F35s (in a dream world) but Rachel and I both enjoy the adventurous life of living overseas and only care about location. It will be interesting where we are all headed off to next, but we won't know still for quite some time. Probably sometime in October is when we will find out. I will be deeply sad if we have to part ways with the Drehers after this assignment since we have been with them these past 4 years. They are some of the best people we know and will forever be life long friends.
At Daiichi the school put on a darling festival where all the kids attended in their yukatas (for girls) and jinbes (for boys), wrote their wishes on strips of paper that were on displayed, made paper lanterns, and danced traditional dances for all the parents to watch. I remember going to this last year and just loving it, and Abby loves it too! She is such a little dancer and has been practicing her dance for weeks now. She did such a great job and was so proud of herself when it was finished. At the end of the festival the school sets up different booths for the kids to go around and retrieve fun treats and prizes such as shaved ice and balloon yo-yos. It was fun to watch Connor enjoy himself this year since last year he was too little to understand what was going on completely. Perhaps my favorite part was watching Abby run up to all her school mates and talk to them in Japanese while showing us off, her family, to her friends. It just makes me so happy knowing that we can provide such a unique cultural experience for my kids and to watch Abby be proud of us and be able to converse in Japanese made my proud momma heart burst!
The kids had so much fun, even Brayden was awake and intrigued the whole night watching his surrounding. He sure looked cute in his baby jinbei with his fat chubby thunder thighs on display. Gosh, I sure love these cute kids of mine. It's almost more fun for me to go through life now watching them experience it. Bring on the summer festivals, cause we are ready for them this year!
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