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Nothing can keep us away from viewing cherry blossoms! Not even snow, wind and rain…or even sleet…all of which we experienced today while picnicking under the cherry blossom trees today in Kyoto.

The weather was extreme!

However, it was a lot of fun braving the elements. We didn’t quite finish our lunches because a huge cloud dumped snow and sleet on our picnic. After being pelted with and ingesting so much frozen moisture, we finally called it quits and decided to move the party/picnic to our house, which was only a few minutes away.

I hope everyone else attending the hanami celebration had as much fun as we did!

Mia and Noah played catch, wrestled, played soccer and rolled down the hill just under the cherry blossom trees…and no one got hurt today! Praise God!

It was a beautiful day!

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!