Tokyo Trip

This first picture isn't actually from the Tokyo trip, but a day or two before. I just thought Sterling was really cute on the back of Luke's bike with his "Sterling" hat on.

This is them at an intersection when we were trying to find our hotel. We literally walked miles before we finally found it (with the help of two or three friendly Japanese men). Luke was trying to help Sterling deal with the long journey we were having!

These next three pictures are all from this temple we went to. It is the largest Buddhist Temple in Japan. It was really crazy how many people were there, how huge it was, how people just threw money into a big well, and how strongly it smelled of incense. Sterling and Brayden obviously were bored with the whole thing!



These two pictures are from Shibuya (a section of Tokyo) which is the busiest intersection in the world. The second picture is taken from the 2nd floor of a Starbucks (which I wasn't supposed to take pictures here, but I didn't know it until I'd already done it, so here it is!) It was amazing because no matter what time of day or night, there is always this many people streaming through here- it's crazy!


These little Japanese cartoon figures were near our hotel, I actually don't even know the name of this little character, but Sterling liked it.

On Sunday morning we went to the Jesus Lifehouse church and it was so much fun. I didn't expect much, but I was totally amazed once I got there. The church was full of people from all over the world, they did the services in Japanese and English, and there were tons of little kids around Sterling's age! It just felt so good to be in church and worshipping with other believers since we haven't done that in over three months. Almost everyone there was around our age and just so cool and nice to us- we loved it! Some of the people that either started this church or help run it are from the Australian church that has Hillsong for those of you who know that music- so needless to say the music was awesome!

So overall we had a great trip, except that it rained during the last night and day that we were there. So that really dampened our fun and we ended up leaving earlier than planned because there was literally nothing to do without getting soaked. But the train ride there and back was nice- it took about two hours.