Hot summer days

Unbelievable! I am so behind on our blog posting! Sometimes, there are just too many things happening to be able to blog about it all.

Tomorrow is the first day of school (yay!). I am feeling very excited for Katya and Alex but also sad in realization how fast time is flying by. That is when I also think whether or not I treasure every moment with them (believe me, there are plenty of moments that I am not proud of:)).

This is a quick recapture of our August. We had very hot two weeks in the beginning of August. And by hot I mean not so hot by very many standards. Humidity was high, but getting no relief inside the house was the worst. That’s Misawa for you…I guess in about 4-5 years they are planning to get A/C for our on base houses.

Because Robert was gone, we had to be creative about places to go for adventures. I don’t like to venture out further than an hour drive by myself. So one morning, I decided to take the kids and their friends to the OTHER side of Lake Ogawara. We have written before about the base beach of the lake. Well, we drove around the lake to the Japanese side. It didn’t look very different. Still very shallow (as you can see on the pictures) but vast and pretty.

Two mermaids. Lots of Japanese people were looking for clams in the lake—they just walk around with buckets trying to see what they can find.

Mark loved the beach, of course, my cute FL baby. I even managed to read 10 pages of my book while the kids were playing with the sand in front of me.

Since it was hot, we had lots of days when we set up our own pool/slip’n’slides in the backyard. These are pictures from one of those days.

I love how vibrant the color of the trees and grass is.

Alex is getting used to his new toothless smile. Oh, that just totally made me laugh--I remember eating mashed potatoes with my cousins and trying to squeeze out “worms” through the holes made by my missing teeth.

This is our last full summer in Misawa (90% sure)….

Good night for now.

Lyana