It's not spring yet here in Iwakuni
My volleyball coach's daughter, my other volleyball coach and his wife who plays with me
Lola, Sophia & Melanie all in mid chew!! Melanie and her family will be moving to 29 palms as well!!!!
Lola and I goofing off
Sakura tattoo (cherry blossom)
It snowed here last Monday!!! I had just dropped Lola off with her senseis and saw this beautiful opportunity for a picture
Lola chowing down on spaghetti!!
I think we know what she's getting for Christmas this year!!Wow, where does time go?! The beginning of April we will be moving to 29 Palms,California after three years of calling Iwakuni,Japan our home. We have loved it here, but it is time to go back to the states. We have had a lot of firsts here, learned a lot about ourselves and others and made some amazing memories, as well as some lifelong friends. I feel very blessed to have had this once in a lifetime opportunity, and hope one day Lola can come visit the amazing country she was born in.
I have been playing on a 9 man mama-san volleyball team with some wonderful Japanese and American women. I wish I would have gotten involved in the team a bit earlier, but I feel fortunate to be able to play with them at all. I do not have any pictures with the whole team since Chris has been gone, but I will get some before I leave. In the league I play in, the oldest woman is in her 70's!!! Yes I said 70's!!! All the American women were stunned! It is very empowering and encouraging to play with them.
We are having a bit of a rough period right here before we PCS, but we will get through it. All of our things were packed out of our house almost two weeks ago, Chris is away on a training exercise and Lola has been fighting getting sick--oh and we still don't have our flight details worked out! Needless to say it's been a bit crazy around here.
The next few weeks will be filled with sad "see ya later parties"(I never say goodbye, b/c I hope to see all these wonderful people again soon), me finishing up this term in school, preparing to check out of our house and probably a little bit of last minute shopping in Japan;-)
Hope everyone is doing well and hopefully see you all very very soon!
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