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| Alora |
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| Alora maybe not so happy |
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| Twin cakes |
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| Clarity likes her hat--love that t-shirt! |
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| Dining area set for a party |
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| Notice she has no shirt--and is really enjoying her cake. I think this is Alora |
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| Clarity was a little more genteel in her cake eating |
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| These are the first crop of plums which was made into jam... |
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| Red and white potato harvest plus some tomatoes |
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| Part of the blackberry harvest--some was frozen and some was turned into jam, only I did not sift out the seeds...so they get stuck in the teeth :-) |
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| We took a drive northeast of here to Kato City, just to look around. It's about the size of Sanda City so there's plenty of people, business and shopping :-) |
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| This is the end of the line for the Kobe Dentetsu train line that runs closest to our home near Okaba and Gosha stations |
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| The train bells rang, gates were lowered and we waited a few minutes for the train to come. The traffic was backing up. |
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| Only ONE car on this train line..:-) |
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| This train car was parked at the station. I think it is a restaurant inside. This appears to be a drink dispenser. And it is a purple car..very colorful. |
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| Tuesday , we drove north for about an hour to where Dan Junior is building a new church building |
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| We visited the Pineapple Park which had pineapple stuff everywhere. |
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| The auto-drive cars were pineapple shaped |
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| Did you know that there are 200 different plants in the pineapple family? About 20 are edible, the rest, not so much. :-) |
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| We did not see the Okinawa Zoo, but passed by the entrance. |
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| Henry preached in the evening at Maranatha Baptist Church |
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| We had dinner with Pastor Navato and a few church folks at the Osaka Osho |
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| Monday we went to the beach and rode in a glass bottom boat |
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| The boat ride was about 20 minutes. We saw a variety of fishes and other sea critters |
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| The sea had several shades of blue which were beautiful |
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| This display is made from a multitude of smaller photos of hundreds of people at the Kobe Airport |
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| At the baggage claim area in the Naha Airport, Okinawa |
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| Many buses and vehicles have colorful designs most anyplace in Japan |
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| The roots of a road-side tree |
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| At the Shinko Baptist Church upstairs, Heidi Gardner painted these Bible scenes, which took about three years to do |
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| Noah's Ark is in the nursery |
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| Daniel in the Lions' Den is in Heidi's office |
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| On Saturday the 14th, there was a kids' activity which included this dunk tank. One of the members got dunked many times. |
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| Opening of the program in which about 40 kids came. We sang songs here |
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| One of the games was hit the rat |
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| Another was a shooting game to knock out some teeth |
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| Ring Toss |
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| Spin the wheel |
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| Then an air bouncer |
