Erik and Yoko's Yokohama Tour Service

Since we turned down the offer for Erik to teach in China, we have seen an influx of teaching opportunities for Erik. This week he started a long term sub. It will last 2 months and is 3 days a week. He also acquired a new private student that he meets once a week. On top of this, he will be teaching 2 all day classes (one in June and one in August) for Japan's second largest steel company. The Lord is truly blessing us. This increase in income is coming at a prefect time as it will provide for our plane tickets back to the U.S. Also, the long term sub teaching does not fall on days that Erik has his Japanese classes. God sure is good to us!

Last Monday we had the opportunity to give 10 college students from the U.S. a tour of Yokohama. These students are from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and are in Japan for a summer study program. We have this connection with ERAU since they have a campus in Prescott, and the professor that heads up this Japan program, we know from church. If you came to our wedding, he is the Japanese man who did the translating during the reception. We had a good time in Yokohama. Yoko did a great job getting us all on the correct trains and translating anything the students couldn't read. The 10 students we had were great. There were no attitude problems; nobody got lost; and they all were happy to try food they were unfamiliar with at a Japanese restaurant we went to for lunch. We went up to the top of Landmark Tower; it provided a great view of the Yokohama area. We had hoped to take the students to the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Museum , but it is closed every Monday. So, in place of that, we let the students loose in a local mall.

In our last post we mentioned that we would be going out to eat for our anniversary. We did that and had a great meal. It was a buffet, and we took full advantage of that. We hope to get a link up for the restaurant so keep an eye out for that in our "What and Where We've Eaten Recently" section. Below is an "anniversary picture" we took to mark our two years of marriage. Aren't we cute in the matching shirts. FYI, that wasn't Erik's idea : )