Sunday: Nagasaki and Sasebo

 I should have gotten photos of church.  Oops.  We went to the Japanese Branch in Nagasaki for church.  It was a little over an hour drive from our hotel in Omura.  The branch was super welcoming and nice, and the missionaries there were American and translated for us. After church it was a short drive to the Nagasaki Peace Memorial.

The Peace Memorial is to remember the atom bomb dropped there in 1945.

And these garlands ARE tiny origami cranes linked together.  1000 cranes for peace.

I'm not sure the girls really understood what happened here. 

They just wanted pictures with all the monuments. 

This one had the date and time of the bombing. 

This is where the hypocenter of the bomb was. 

I do love these kids, even if they are irreverent in solemn places. 

They did have a marvelous time feeding the pigeons.

Rylee was not feeling well.  She HAD spent the entire night puking non-stop, but she was a trooper and did not complain.

 Interesting info on the bomb.

This was a neat column of a building that mostly survived the bomb.  They moved it here to the peace park to serve as a reminder. 

Silly girls wanted another picture. 

Joshua was too cool to join them. 

Delaney is so cute! 

I may have mentioned how much fun they had with the pigeons. 

We drove 2 hours to Sasebo Naval Base for the night.  This was the view from that hotel!