Family Camp at SYME Japan

The photo above is the schedule for the family camp for this past weekend. It was in Japanese and a little English so we really only knew what was going on when it was in English or if someone told us what to do. The speaker Randy Gilmore is a pastor from Indiana. He and his family are here to help with WOL Japan and SYME during a transition time. It was awesome to here preaching in English while at a Japanese family camp :) Kazu Kato translated all of his messages in Japanese.

Above and below are some of the views that we woke up to in the morning after the fog cleared and we could see this all day. It was beautiful in Karuizawa. 

Activities from Family Camp:

For lunch on Saturday we played a noodle game. You had to catch the noodles and put them in your bowl of soup. I did not get a photo of it, but water runs down the gutters and someone is putting the noodles in the water to flow down.

Amy and Kazu's nephew Kota enjoying noodles from his mom!!!

Amy Kato catching her noodles!!!

There were some of us that went last through the line and all of the chopsticks were gone so we had to use forks ;)

This was the end of the line; the little kids would get them from the basket at the end if they could not catch them in the water. 

On Saturday afternoon we went into Karuizawa and saw the first Christian church that was built in Karuizawa in 1906. We also walked around and saw some of the sights and shops in the area. 

On Saturday night, we had a campfire in the parking lot and roasted marshmallows and made smores. There were also little fireworks for the children. 

Overall it was a great weekend and we are very thankful that we had the opportunity to attend and meet many members of Kazu and Amy's church. We also picked up some Japanese words :) On Tuesday, we plan to travel to Shimonoseki by bullet train.