Cherry Blossoms

Every year at this time it is a major event for Japanese people to do "Ohanami" which is going and having a picnic under cherry blossom trees. During the day it is a family event and is pretty simple; you just bring your lunch and let the kids play. At night it is more like a festival with vendors selling food, drinks and souvenirs. You still do the same thing at night though- you sit under the trees and eat! So we've done this a couple of times during our break and it has been really beautiful and fun.

This picture is from when we got our whole team together to try to get new pictures for the website and newsletters. Sterling and Owen were running around like crazy with their dress clothes on, so Luke had to round them up.

We also got to go to Ohanami with some Japanese friends. Andy was actually the first to meet them, but they are really friendly and have invited us to do a couple of different things with them. The next two pictures show the night we went with them to the Okazaki castle for Ohanami- you can see in the second picture how the trees were all lit up at night.


We also just went as a family and had ice cream under the trees, so we took pictures of one another. We really tried to get one with Sterling in it, but he was exhausted and refused to take any pictures. We put him in his stroller and he fell asleep within 10 seconds!