Snowy Illinois!

We were THRILLED to land last night at O'Hare to lots of snow! Kaitlyn spent quite awhile outside last night helping Grandpa Weiss snowplow the driveway. We were thankful for the warm coats, hats, mittens, and scarves that were brought to the airport for us:)

Wow! We've had quite the time the past week since we left Singapore. We spent about 4 days in Japan with Klaus's. Kaitlyn had such a good time with their girls that there were many tears on the way to the airport and it's safe to say that she (and all of us) walked away with new friends. We are thankful that they welcomed us with open arms and showed us around a little! We also spent an evening with Akito and Marie Inoue and some time with Akihiro and Carrie Ito. We were treated to a nice meal at a Japanese restaurant - complete with a fish that you eat head, guts, bones and all! To be fair I need to admit that I couldn't bring myself to try it although every one else ate theirs. Akihiro gladly ate mine for me! I have pictures that I will try to get posted sometime soon.

Than it was on to warm, sunny California - oh, wait! It was on to cold, cloudy, rainy LA! I have always pictured southern California as very warm and while it was warmer than Tokyo and much warmer than Chicago we still needed jackets. When the sun did come out on our second day there it was warm as long as you stayed out of the shade - relatively speaking:) A huge THANK YOU to Justin, Robin, and co. for putting up with us for 2 days. They were brave to put up with 5 jet lagged people!

Speaking of jet lag - when you put jet lag and an insomniac person together it is not a pretty sight! Three of us are adjusting pretty well and two of us are having a harder time...