A couple more Japan pics...

I have been wanting to get on my blog, but life since we've gotten back (exactly a week ago) has been chaotic and busy. Anyways, here are a few pictures from the tail-end of our trip. It's crazy to have to hit the ground running since we've been back...it's been hard to process through our time in japan with crazy schedules and life moving on. Anyways..... soft serve green tea ice cream. :) They had green tea flavored kit kats, too.

We stayed all but one night at the Pfeil's...and enjoyed spending time with their 2 girls...
We were able to visit CCSI (the christian school in chiba) and be with them during morning devotionals.
Kindergarten is a big deal in japan....they only have private kindergarten's and it's 3 years.... when they're 3, 4, and 5. CCSI started a 1 day a week kindergarten and we got to visit their classroom as well.
We got back home last tuesday night....drove the stewart's to the airport wednesday morning.... and basically tried to fight the jet-lag all week long. This weekend we spend saturday at MOSI (the science museum in tampa)....AJ spent saturday at the beach with her friend, ella, who picked her to go with her family to the beach in celebration of her birthday. It was a little odd to spend the day without AJ around, but she had a blast with ella's family and we had a fun day, too!
As for japan....we are waiting to hear whether or not we have an invitation from the team out there to come. If we do, we are planning on going to assessment in january (with MTW in atlanta)...assuming we are approved by them to do missions we would then start fundraising towards going to japan. It's all a bit overwhelming, but we feel strongly about the need in japan for missionary's and also feel like our family could be a good fit with what's going on over there. Please continue to pray with us as we seek to follow Him.