Nabana No Sato Part 2

Alright! Last Japan Post!

  Part 2!  Possibly my favorite part of Japan!  The whole time we were in Japan (and even before when we were planning our trip), Darin kept teasing me that we needed to go to an Onsen (public bath usually in a hot spring).  I adamantly told him NO!

Well, as we were wandering Nabana No Sato, we found an ONSEN for FEET ONLY!  I was on board for that!  It is a natural hotspring and the water was straight out of the ground from the depth of 1000 meters. It felt SOOOO good!!  Darin thought that it was too hot.  I thought it was PERFECT!  I could go for some of that right now!

After the Onsen, we went to a BEAUTIFUL restaurant!  It had HUGE glass windows that looked out into the gardens.  I had a tuna sashimi bowl that looked BEAUTIFUL, mom had calamari, and Darin had eel and dobinmushi (I wished that I had ordered that—it was delicious!)

As it started getting dark, we headed to the tunnel of light.  It did not disappoint! I LOVED it!  They also had a light show.  This year’s show was Heidi.  That was really cute too! It was a WONDERFUL day filled with so many wonderful bonus surprises!

This was our last night in Japan!  

The PERFECT ending!!

Thanks again mom and dad for EVERYTHING!

We had a great time and look forward to seeing you in 7 months!!

Gunnerson Easter Dinner and Mission Call

We had Darin's family over for a post-Easter celebration.

(But we missed you Tom, Geoff, Chris, and families)

We had an Easter Dinner and then, luckily for us, Darin's parents got their mission call THAT day, and opened it with us at our house that night.

They are going to JAPAN!!!  Darin served his mission in Japan, so we are extra excited!!

Skyping with Geoff and Jadi as they got ready to open their call.

They peeked before they told us.  I LOVE mom's face here!!

Future office missionaries of the Japan, Nagoya mission!

Happy 2nd Easter!!

Hong Kong

The first day in Japan actually ended up being in Hong Kong.  We missed our connecting flight and spent the day in Hong Kong.  The airlines put us up in a nice hotel and fed us really well.  We missed having the extra day with mom and dad in Japan, but we also loved our night in Hong Kong.

They're BACK!!

Mom and Dad came home from their mission this weekend from Japan!

It was fun to meet them at the airport (even though I was a teary mess).

After the airport the family came to our house for a yummy BBQ.

Mom and Dad gave everyone fun gifts from Japan.
It was fun to be together but we really missed Geoff, Jadi, Kaden, Kaylee, Tom, Judi, and Parkar.

So glad you made it home safe Mom and Dad!