Been a while

Well...its been 3 months since we have been overseas and I am now putting up our first blog entry. Nice work self. Hopefully it wont take me 3 more months to do the next.

This year we decided to go to Japan. We are living outside of Tokyo about an hour or so by train, by car its..... a lot longer - but the wonders of driving here will be another post. We are living in a state (in Japan it is called a prefecture) called Chiba. Hence the name of our team - the Chiba Jets. The city we are living in is Funabashi and even though it is in another state and a ways outside Tokyo, it, in a way seems like it is all one big city. There isnt much seperation, if any, from one city to the next and when you go from Chiba to Tokyo (which is also a state - and a city) there is a little sign that says now in Tokyo even though the buildings havent stopped or there isnt any break.

Our city which is located to the east of Tokyo has a population of somewhere around 610,000 people. Not small, but when you consider it is part of the Tokyo metropolitan area which has a population of 35 million it seems like a drop in the bucket.
It took us a while to get settled in but we feel we have now adjusted and are enjoying our time here.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the people back in the states and if your out for Black Friday doing some shopping have fun and try not to get run over.