Becca, Anna. What are we getting ready for this weekend? What's gonna happen?

Our 6th grader trip. Tomorrow!

Tomorrow?

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Is this what we do when Becca and Anna are gone? We get on their bed? Oh! You scared me!

Yeah! And use it? Oh my goodness.

You scared me!

Sarah.

Awe, it looks like a birthday card. Do you want to open it really quick?

Yeah. For Sarah. I want to wait until after I come home.

Ok.

Oh, so cool you got a birthday card in the mail. Fun!

From Aunt Joy.

Did you know mommy bought a balloon machine?

What did mommy do? She bought a balloon machine for my birthday.

She bought a balloon machine to inflate balloons? Cool.

So, we're gonna go see if we can catch a glimpse of the girls coming back from their trip.

From their 6th grade elementary trip.

Whoa!

Oh yes!

Oh, yes!

We're just waitin' for the girls.

When will they come. No clue!

We're waiting at a park near the station so we can see the girls come back from their trip.

Kids in Japan know that when 6th grade comes, it means a special overnight field trip to one of Japan's famous places.

The girls and their classmates took a special train, reserved just for them and a bus to Niko,

An area famous for it's ancient temple,

Beautiful waterfall,

And monkeys.

They stayed overnight and had lots of great traditional food and now we're anxious to see how their time was.

Becca! How was it? Yeah?

Good. Did you have fun?

So, the waterfall? Yes.

Super cool? Kinda cool? Yes. Super, duper cool.

There's like wild animals there like, deer and monkeys.

And, another type of animal that you can hardly see. We saw all of them!

And the monkeys were like 10 of them all together.

Wow! That's really rare.

And, we saw a deer. Some kids.

And then, at the waterfall, only some times there's this little cute animal coming out.

Wow! At the waterfall? Yea. Sweet, very cool.

She's opening up her birthday card.

You're opening your birthday card.

Oh, the first, the night, dinner, there was this strawberry cake. Aww, so good. It was so good?

Was this umbrella good? Yes.

8! 8! 8! Awe!

So Anna, what was your favorite part of the trip? Oh, the waterfall. The waterfall was cool?

It got squished! What got squished?

Oh, that's ok. Is that the omiage that you got? Is that the food?

That's cool. Yay, we'll have to try it later.

Is that what you got Anna?

Five colors? Yes, five colors. A five color pen!

Oh, very nice.

And...

This is a magnet. No! I want to show it! Oh, very cool.

Oh, you got one too? Let me see Becca.

They got the same one.

Oh, it's so pretty. We accidentally got the same one.

Did you? Did you guys know that? No.

You didn't! How fun! And then a handkerchief, see this one? How cute!

What special memories.

Now this.

Oh, are those the monkeys you got? Can you hold them up? Let me see. Joshua, I need my phone.

Joshua. What?

You just did something that I thought was so amazing, I wanted to get it on camera.

Is it the mega ground pound? Yea.

Ok, so, Joshua is going to take out all of these gumbas at one time.

Ok. Let's see you do it.

3, 2, 1.

Dude! That's amazing.

It's pretty entertaining just watching Joshua play Super Mario and Zelda. He's phenomenal with these games.

Oh dude! Can you get it?

I think I can.

You did it!

Can you see the sunset at all?

Oh my. Oh my is right.

Let's go see it. All right.

Let's go. Let's go. Hurry everybody.

Hurry everybody.

Ok, watch out for bikes and stuff. It looks nice. Ok, lets go.

Sarah, what do you like more, hiking or jogging?

I don't like both of them.

Mostly like jogging.

You like hiking and jogging?

You get tired.

Here comes Rebecca.

Whoa Becca. It is awesome.

Look at that!

Oh good job.

Oh my goodness, look at the water. Look at the water.

Right here is perfect.

Oh my goodness.

What a sunset.

Jump! Jump fish jump.

Keep videoing at the same place. You saw it that time? The 4th time.

Oh yeah?

What a special sunset, huh?

Oh, are you tired? Should we go back home?

Can I run? No, no, no.

Now we walk. Run?? I thought you were the one who said you don't like to jog?

I said I like to jog.

I like running. Oh, ok.

Ok. Let's cross.

Awesome. Hold Becca's hand.

Probably should not stop and go, stop and go.

Holy cow. Holy cow.

Those are huge! Watch this.

Ah! It's gonna hit you daddy!

Let Joshua. 3, 2, 1.

Last one for everybody.

Wow. It almost hit the camera.

Oh that one's already died.

Anna, what are you doing here? Ice cream cone. Ice cream cone?

Thats the ice cream cone for this ice cream.

We're at Becca and Anna's favorite place, right?

They had today off of school because Saturday was their trip, so now, here comes the goodie.

Anna loves the tuna rolls, right Anna?

Look at this plate! And Becca likes the salmon. Oh boy.

Oh my goodness. Did the rain come out of nowhere?

Yes! Oh my goodness!

We got soaked! Gonna need to change those clothes!

Sarah. Its the big birthday day, huh?

Let's see your cake.

Whoa. This is your cake. An ice cream theme, huh?

Sarah, lets see what you have. What did you get?

Ice cream. Whoa! What is on that Sarah?

Oreo, M&Ms, chocolate.

Oreo, M&M and chocolate, oh my!

Very good! Please read.

Look at this.

Ah, we just finished.

Were you earning money? Yeah. How were you earning money?

You cleaned the car that fast?

Wow, it looks good dude.

How much money did you earn? I don't know. You don't know? Mommy's gonna tell you, huh?

200. 200, wow dude.

Hey, watch this.

This is a favorite part of washing the car. Sitting inside and mommy doing this.

Where did he go?

Sure looks like mommy was washing the car.

Oh, that part. But this part he was. Oh, good job. There you go.

Way to go dude.

Can I have 300? Boy, he is workin' it.

Look what we have.

What is this?

Who got purple? Me.

No way! Oh, cool.

There's no red? Two light blues.

Two light blues. The twins were twinsie twinsie.

I like it. Yes.

These daily walks are one of my favorite things.

Oh here. Use scissors. Cause every time when I open up, buah!

Oh my.

You need scissors guys.

Maybe Becca can help. Good job Becster.

Ok Sarah.

Sarah's birthday donuts.

She's, how old are you Sarah? Eight.

8 years old! Wow!

Oh yeah look. There's the number 8. Sure enough. Very nice.

Don't forget we have brand new shirts at our Life in Japan Shop.

I'll leave a link in the description. You can see these cool camo shirts. There are a couple different varieties.

There's some shirts like what the kids got. They are new and they are available on our online shop.

And now before we go, check out a little clip of what you're gonna see next week.

So I'm out in Okutama and I got up early, its a beautiful morning to try the drone for the very first time.