Father’s Day weekend started out with a Father’s day party at school. The kids made bamboo squirt gun with the help of Dad, then took them outside to squirt

After squirting fun it was time for lunch by catching noodles as they came down the bamboo water slide

Then it was back inside for the presentation of gifts to all the Dad’s

This is Sean’s picture that he drew and colored of Jeff, for some reason he always draws him very colorful

The next day we went to Murasaki Mura, which is an old tv set that has been converted into a series of craft shops.

Jeff has been wanting the make Shisa’s with the kids, so I found this for Father’s day to do. Catie chose to pick out a pre-made Shisa and paint it,

and Sean chose to make his own

While we were waiting for things to dry we found a calleidoscope craft building with this photo spot

and some horses to feed carrots to

Then it was time for Sean to paint his Shisa

and he helped make little shisa while waiting for his to dry

The restaurant I wanted to go to was a 2 hour wait, but we found a little okinawa buffet restaurant. Sean refused to eat anything until I found a ‘make your own” noodle soup bar. He ate five of these bowls!

Sean and Catie are taking swimming lessons a Japanese pool

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The rainy season this year was short, but did produce. We had 13 inches of rain in a one week period. During that time, we took a trip to the zoo. Mommy is Wonder Museumed out, so I told everyone as long as it wasn’t pouring buckets of rain, we’d see the animals. So we checked out the lake where people were fishing for small fish with bread

Catie showed off her dance moves

As we moved on the rain got a little heavier, but that didn’t stop Sean and Catie from having fun

I’m assuming because of the weather the elephants were inside, but we got to go into their barn, and Catie got a hi-five from the female elephant. Sean was too scared to move beyond the door.