Iwakuni Again

 Josh had been asking to Space A over to Iwakuni and we had every intention of doing that.  Then I sat down and looked at the calendar and realized there were very few opportunities to make that happen.  We bit the bullet and bought one way return tickets for the Monday holiday and I flew Space A out with him on Saturday morning.

Here we are Saturday morning waiting to get on the Patriot Express to Iwakuni! It was smooth sailing and went beautifully.

Once in Iwakuni I took Josh to his friend Hunter's house and left him there till Monday morning.  Then I picked him up and did the last few things on his bucket list.  He declared the trip a success.  He got to hang out with his friend, and visit church on Sunday.  He saw other old friends (we went to the newly opened Chili's and took bets on how many people he would see that he knew.  He ran into 8.), and we went to lunch at Soba Express, which was just as delicious as we remembered it to be.

 We stopped by the Kintai on the way to the Shin Monday afternoon.  Had to document it!

I was there too! It isn't as pretty in the winter, but it is still awesome.

We got our Kintai ice cream, and it was delicious.  April did the world's best photobomb as well! 

 April dropped us off at the Shin station and we took the bullet train to the airport and then flew into Naha and Dan picked us up.  It was a lot more complicated and expensive than flying Space A out there!