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Another accident, another head injury for Noah.

It seems everytime Noah gets hurt it involves his head.

Today, while swinging from a branch in a tree, Noah slipped off and hit his head on another cement gutter. This time he only needed one stitch not a staple. But the scratches he got from the accident are far worse than the previous ones.

Because the accident happened at the neighborhood park a lady there called the ambulance and they took Noah to the hospital to get a CT scan and x-rays.

The pictures showed no brain injuries so he should heal up fine. However, he still needs prayers for healing. His neck is all scratched up, along with his ear and forehead.

Pray also that from now on his injuries get fewer and less damaging. And while at it include the rest of the family.

Today is the Yawata city jumprope festival. Mia and many other kids from her school formed teams to compete in the event.

The first jumprope challenge was to jump as a team as many times in two minutes. Mia’s team had a hard time because the rope turners didn’t do a good job. They didn’t advance.

The next challenge was to jump rope as a team but they had to one at a time run through the jumprope and do it as many times as they could in two minutes. They did well the first time and perfect the second.

Unfortunately, I do not know the rules so I have no idea how they did in the competition even though they did well.

Now the kids are playing with their friends while Denise and I sit in the car eating our lunch bentos Denise made this morning.

I feel like I am camping!

Yesterday, we went to Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture to hang out for the day with friends from church: the Underwoods, the Brooks and the Castros.

The Underwoods friends’ parents have a little house on the lake they use for vacationing on weekends and holidays. They are big water sports fans, have a boat and many other boating accessories. I would love to spend a weekend or longer with them at this place to do some fishing, skiing and wakeboarding. Their son just won some contest in Japan and is doing competitions around the country. He wakeboards every weekend.

The father took everyone out in the boat for a ride and then blew up a big three-man SkiDoo float and pulled us around the lake for a while. He pulled the kids very slowly. But with Gwyn, Ponga and I inside the thing, he cranked up the engine and tried to throw us off. Surprisingly, we stayed on and never tipped over although we did come close a few times and got airborne a few times as well as sideways. We held on like it was an 8-second bull ride! Afterwards, we were all sore and Ponga and I had sore necks.

Back on the beach, we ate tons of barbecued chicken, fish and steak. Ribs would have been good too come to think of it. Maybe next bbq event!

For the birthday boy, Noah celebrated his birthday with a huge brownie cake Kayoko made lit with 8 tall candles. Then we made S’mores that Denise brought. Later on when it was dark, we shot off our fireworks we have had for two years. Fortunately, we had some very nice policemen tell us they were illegal to shoot off in front of our house.

That night, we ate spaghetti and sat around inside the house chatting and snacking on leftovers from lunch. Thanks, for the spaghetti Ponga! It was delicious! Kayoko and Gwyn, thanks for inviting us. I hope we can go again sometime.