12/03/2008

Another busy weekend

The day after Thanksgiving, we went to pick up our exchange students from Japan. As a class trip, they travel to the U.S. for a short homestay and they also stay a couple nights in a hotel for more tours as a large group.

Our two students were Masato and Ryosuke, both 16 years old. They spoke very little english, and even though I did study Japanese for a year back in undergrad (how many years ago was that?!) I speak very little Japanese. I was able to find out a few things about them, and they were very nice boys and tried their best to communicate. They played with the kids and so Adam and Cole thought it was great having a couple of big brothers around for a couple of days.


Saturday we took them hiking up Diamond Head and had good weather for that. The weather went downhill from there. We went and got some takeout at L&L (good local cuisine) and took it to the park. The rain started about that point and didn't let up the rest of the day. We went to the zoo after lunch and had rain off and on. Gave up with the weather and headed for home.

Sunday, we went to the USS bowfin which is a submarine museum. It was a cool tour. Cole was too young to go on the boat, but I took Adam through the sub while Dan took Cole to the museum.

Top deck of the sub:Adam loved the audio headphone tour
They had lots of the old guns still mounted on the sub
Cole and Taiyo running the controls at one of the museum displays
Cole was so proud to be sitting up their on the big gun. He told me to take his picture..
After eating lunch on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, we brought the boys back to the pickup point to load the buses. Here is a picture the organizers took for us (from left to right): Ryosuke, Masato, Amy, Adam, and Dan (Cole was mad and sitting in the van). Then Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday we finished up decorating the house for Christmas. So we've been busy! Now I just need to finish all my Christmas shopping!

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