Ohayo gozaimasu Nippon- "Good morning Japan"

Hello everyone... We made it!  Audrey and I landed in Osaka yesterday afternoon around 3:30 p.m.  After getting through customs without a problem we met up with Mr. Honda, loaded up the bus and had a two hour ride to Himeji.   When we arrived we had a wonderful greeting from our new Australian and American friends that live in our complex.  After putting our bags in our apartment they took us to dinner at an awesome Udon noodle place that is right around the corner.  When we finished dinner we got settled in and went to bed around 10:30 p.m. Himeji time witch is 6:30 a.m. in Arizona.  After a few much needed hours of sleep we got up around 5:00 a.m. ready to hit the ground running.  Audrey found a closed to decorations that we bought from the couple that lived in this apartment before us so she has been flying around here putting up pictures, fake plants, vases and anything else she thinks looks "cute" in here.  We have a meeting at 9:30 and Mr. Honda is going to take us into the city to open our bank account and get some important paperwork taken care of.  Hope everything is going well for you in Arizona or where ever else this blog may find you.  Thank you all for your love, support and prayers. Check back with us soon so you can keep up with the exciting things we are doing in THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN!!!

Here is the crew just before we go through the checkpoint at Sky Harbor

From left to right: Audrey, Josh, Jane, Ding Ding, Emily, Rachel, Sianna, Patrick and Andre

No that is not Audrey sleeping on my shoulder!  Some random girl thought that I would be a good pillow.... YIKES!!!!!

Audrey can hardly wait to eat her airline chicken and noodles... 

cant you tell by the look on her face!

We're Home

I thought the name of this building was pretty great... 

but I was under the impression that name was reserved for studly Americans?!