Treasure Chest

We awoke this morning at 6:00am and had coffee toast and eggs. The kids were quick as always to get outside and play. It is so nice to live in a place that you can let your kids leave the house to go play and not have to worry about some nut picking them up, or playing near a busy street.

The kids are not used to it and neither are we, but we are getting accustomed to it. It truly is a nice feeling. We have a major road near our house, but there just isn't much traffic on it. It will pick up when it gets warmer and people start visiting the mountains nearby, but there is a large sidewalk to walk on, beside it.

There is a small river right in front of our house, but is very shallow and is mostly used for irrigation of the crops surrounding us. Today we went into the second largest town in Hokkaido called Asahikawa. There is a catholic girls high school barracks that is being demolished. One of the locals works at the high school as a teacher and was told to come and get anything you want out of the barracks. So we all loaded up in a flatbed truck and 2 vans to go get what we wanted. After about an hour drive we arrived and found a treasure chest full of goodies.

Yasuko got all the dishes that we could ever need, we got bedding so we can return what was loaned to us. I got a computer desk and chair, toaster oven, kids desk, 4 dressers for clothes, and a new clothes washing machine. We also got some curtains and various other stuff. We are so lucky to have received all of these items for free.