R2D2 and I

We bought a charcoal grill the other day. Nolan and I went to work on putting it together yesterday. After it was built, I decided to name it R2D2.

It was my first attempt at grilling while Dad is gone, and my first time ever to use a charcoal grill. It didn't go so well. I sat out on the back porch, in the rain and cold, and couldn't get anything to cook right and we lost 4 hamburgers to the fire......R2D2 and I had a bit of a rocky start to our relationship.

Paintball!!

I went paintballing this Saturday. It's been over a year since I've played, so I was a bit rusty, but I started to get my groove on near the end of the day.

I shocked everyone out there by showing up in my paintball gear....or lack thereof. Everyone was wearing vests and 20 layers of clothes...and then I show up in cammo pants and a sleeveless muscle shirt. They were like, "are seriously going to go out there like that????" I've got some nice welts!

Without going into very many particulars, the group of guys out there was rough. They also had extremely good guns.....so in a shootout between me and one of them they usually got the better (their 20 rounds to my 1 per second adds up after the first few seconds!). I did bust a move or two....like rushing a guys barricade...and then  jumped and slid on my knees while shooting and got him....very cool! lol

After paintballing, Mom and I ran to get some lunch at the BX (I was kind of a mess, covered in paint, dirt, mud, and welts). And thenI went to go mow Ch. B's lawn. After that I ran over to the chapel to load the slides for the service in the morning. I had troubles with the slides and so I wasn't able to load them till the next morning.

Mothers Day was good.

Sakula!

The cherry blossoms bloomed this week! It was breathtaking! We met a family from the chapel at the Statue of Liberty Park for lunch on Wed.

Under the cherry trees!

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It was Children's Day the day we went, and so there were LOTS of folks out having fun. It is strange. I've not seen that many Japanese familes...like father/mother/children in one spot in a long time. And they were all having fun and relaxing, another unusual sight.

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We took Dad with us....

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Lunch under the cherry blossoms...nothing like it

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After lunch, I headed over to Lady Liberty to work on school. It was neat. I sat at the base of the statue. The wind was blowing some of the cherry blossoms off the trees and so I've got blossom pettles in my school book and backpack. I got a lot done, but the Japanese girls blowing bubbles all over the place made me finish early. lol

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Dad and a German dude....Miss you dad!

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Sunday!

The Cherry blossoms are really starting to bloom around town! It is soooo pretty

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Ahhhh yes...trying to fix the oven

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We went to the train park outside the main gate and there are lanterns hung all over the park for Golden Week. There was also a lot of Japanese having a good time, drinking sake, and playing games. A very rare sight to see the Japanese having fun.

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An odd feature about Japanese benches....they have a little light on either arm rest that illuminates the whole bench....I kinda wonder how in the world a homeless guy is suppossed to sleep with that light!

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Human Videos!

We did our human video at the chapel on Sunday. It was a bit wild! We had a few communication problems (it was all my bad) and so our guy playing Jesus didn't know we were going to be performing that morning. We were doing it at the 0800 service, which means it was early. At 8 O'clock he wasn't there. The service started. I gathered the team in the back room and we prayed....and prayed....right in the middle of praying my cell phone started to ring. We all open our eyes and look at my phone (sitting on the floor) and we saw his name in the called ID. He came to the chapel as fast as he could and made it just in time.

They did a good job! We were all a bit nervous, the stage was much smaller than we'd ever practiced with. And we had to have someone else play the other Roman. but it turned out well. I had a lot of people come up to me and say we did a great job.

Here's the video, I hope it works!

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Running Around Misawa

I made a deal with Arielle that if she'd watch the Alamo with me, then I'd watch Pride and Prejudice with her. I've read the book, it's a good book and the movie is pretty good to.

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This week has been Golden Week. It's a big holiday around here. The carp that you see blowing in the wind represents the boys...because they have to be strong and determined like the carp. I' not sure if they have included it to be boys and girls...cuz I kinda have trouble beleiving this household has 4 boys.

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It is starting to look a lot like spring!

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Me trying to jump rope.....i'm actually pretty good at it.

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We went to the Statue of Liberty Park.....I love going there. It is so amazing. they had vendors out there, and people were just enjoying the good weather. One vendor gave us some extremely undercooked meat....and exploding soda.....I don't know about them....lol

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Tres Amigos

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And then we went to the Swan Park and bought some food from the vendors (cooked this time) and then we went to this little garden surrounded by trees and it is very mystical. It is also very refreshing to see how artful and skilled God is in His design.

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