The kids can`t wait to ride the shinkansen (bullet train) tomorrow!!! ... and hang out with the whole family at the hot spring, glass bottom boat tour, hopefully get some gorgeous views of Mt. Fuji (weather permitting) and have some great food!!

I'm in trouble -- I just accidentally deleted Adam's carefully crafted entry for Nov 8 -- hopefully he'll recreate it soon .... Rick Hi it's Adam I'm going to recreate the entry. Nov.7 was really fun and exciting because we explored most of Tokyo and went to the one and only Joypollis in the world. Joypollis is basically a huge gamingarcade center. There are 3 floors, the first floor is the bottom and there are a few rides you can attend. On floor 2 you can win...

Here we are, we are having troubles connecting to the Internet so blog entries for a few more days will be late coming in. Today I will be writing about what we did Nov. 6. Nov.6 morning at about 4:00 we all woke up because of the jet lag we are having from living in Calgary. At 4:00 we tried to go back to sleep but we couldn't so at 6:00 we had no sleep from 4-6, my Dad, Evan, Isaac and I (Adam) went outside for a nice 1hour walk. When we came back at around 7:1...

After an 11 hour flight from San Francisco, we arrived at Narita airport around 3:30pm Japan time. Our aunt Young-Hwa picked us up at the airport in her Honda van and it was about a one hour drive back to Tsukuba-shi where they live and where my grandma has a yummy Korean restaurant. We had a fast, delicious dinner and then went straight to bed. It was really hard to sleep. It was the jet lag keeping us from sleeping. We woke up at 6:00 in the morning and ate ...