Travels ...continued...

On Sunday, we spent the morning at the orphanage with a group from Officer's Christian Fellowship and had fun playing with the children. We first shared a church service with them and then spent time playing basketball, running races, and swinging until the children had to go to lunch.
Then since Josh had off on Monday we had planned to travel by train and ferry to the Chiba prefecture (kind of like traveling to another "state") which is directly across the water (Tokyo Bay) from us. There we met up with the owner of a lodge (an American who has lived here for 30 years) who took us back to his cabin where we were spending the night. It was the first time we could remember when we didn't hear a constant flow of traffic around us, so it was nice to escape to the "country" for a little r and r! Dinner and breakfast were included in our stay, so that was a nice treat. We woke up early enough on Monday to "watch" the updates on the Eagles - Cowboys game....woo-hoo! Then we got some mountain bikes that were available at the cabin and headed out to explore. In the end we biked about 12 miles along the sea and hiked about 4 miles through the mountains along the coast. It was a beautiful day filled with sunshine and cool breezes. Other than a little trip over the handle bars for Rebecca (oops!), we had a lovely tour of the Pacific coastline.