Saturday was a good {hot!} day. We went back up North to Okuma to hike Hiji Falls and brought dinner with us to have on the beach to watch the fireworks. Okinawans obviously don't get the Fourth off work so fireworks every year have to wait until the weekend. It was like an extended celebration of America. Fam & friends, we've been talking about a lot of you lately. Can you believe that next week it will have been a whole year?! Sending you our love! ... continue reading...

Our friends the Boyers did something totally admirable in our book.  They up and bought an old sailboat sans any experience but with every intent to learn how to sail!  They got such a good deal on it that they couldn't pass up the opportunity. It's older than the four of us combined {I'm exaggerating.. kind of} so it needs some work and a lot of love, but they thought, "why not!?"  They could learn. And thanks to their free instructor {Cam!} they really are. He learned ... continue reading...