Conner's just taking it all in!

Amazing!

We got to watch baby sea turtles be released into the ocean!

Somewhere over there is America!!

We went to the ocean in the evening and watched the sunset.

We have locusts here!!! I hung out the clothes the other day and this is what I found on my pants!

Yet ANOTHER castle that we went to!! :)

Hello! I have been meaning to update the blog for a couple of weeks now and I am just getting to it!! Aaron had a week off about 2 weeks ago, so we took a few drives around. We stayed around Hamamatsu this time! One day we just went for a drive and we took this picture. We are all doing good here and are enjoying life in Japan! The weather has been really hot and humid, so we've been trying to stay inside in the air conditioning! Conner is getting big and I am teaching him some sign language. Well, we hope that you enjoy the pictures!

Here's the other side of the fish!!

This is what I made for dinner last night! It's a whole fish, butterflied and then I grilled it. It was very tasty!

We got these peaches at the store last night. The fruit here is so much better than the stuff we get in Ohio!

YUK! This spider is dead, but it's still huge! Lately we've had a few of these large spiders outside of our house. I think they should be on display in a zoo rather than outside of our house!!!

Conner and Tomo

Conner loves cars!

Grandma and Grandpa Ziegler got Conner a music set!

Happy Birthday, Conner! This past Wednesday, the 9th, Conner turned 2!!! We went out to dinner and then came home and opened presents and ate cupcakes and ice cream! Tomo and Michiko joined us!

This is almost to the station where they parked their car. Aaron had a great time climbing the mountain and we're glad he's home safe and sound! Have a great day!

Aaron stopped at a station with the group and took this picture up towards the top of the mountain.

Here is Aaron at the top of Mt. Fuji! He was the only one to actually make it to the top and we are so proud of him!!

This is a station that you can stop at while climbing.

People climbing the mountain.

Just a view from the top!

This is looking down into the crater.

This is the top of the mountain.

Aaron saw this guy and had to take a picture.....Go Bucks!! :)

This is the view from the top of Mt. Fuji right before sunrise!

They started climbing at about 8pm and climbed through the night, so they could watch the sunrise from the top of the mountain. This is a picture of all the people climbing at night and their flashlights!

This is the weekend that Aaron climbed Mt. Fuji!! The weather was great, so it was a go! Here is Aaron with 3 of the people that he went with...there was one more, but he was taking the picture!! This picture is obviously taken BEFORE they started climbing!

One last picture....this is Conner in the church nursery! :) 

Here we are out to dinner with Tomo and Michiko! They are a lot of fun and Conner LOVES Tomo!! This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago....but we hope you enjoy the pictures of our vacation!! 

This is a rest stop that we stopped at to have dinner. The rest stops in Japan are really nice! We each had a bowl of ramen and got back on the road!