Japanese BBQ

Chris finished his contract at the private teaching school he was at in Akishima in June, but he still keeps in contact and gets to be apart of activities with the great group of students he used to teach. We have previously gotten to know a lot of his previous students from our skiing trip to Niigata in February, and also the Hanami (Cherry Blossom) party in April. This time, Yuta planned a BBQ and camping trip and invited us along.

We made some hamburgers to show what American's have at BBQs, while they cooked thin strips of marinated pork on the grill, Japanese style. Yummy!

Manning the grill

There were fishermen to one side of us...

...and a bunch of people on the other side of us.

Everybody at the BBQ. The best part about it was that everyone was a different age, and spoke different levels of English but everyone had fun! (The 2 other foreigners are the current teachers at Chris' old school.)

After that we headed to the cabin that Yuta reserved for the night. We ate some more, drank some more, played cards and Jenga until way too late!

Yuta's nickname is now Mr. Jenga because he has self proclaimed master Jenga skills. :) He tried to mess Brad up in this video. lol


Yui is 6 years old. Chris taught both her and her mom for over a year. They are playing a popular drumming game at arcades here in Japan on Yuta's ipad.


Yuta bought a really cool/powerful laser when he was in China a couple months ago. As you can see, it was fun to play with... It even had a screen on it that made it look like fireflies were in the trees.


Yuta took over the camera and filmed a little bit...

The next day we headed to a fun place that is similar to Fun Plex in Colorado. It had a bunch of claw games and pachinko places as well as curling, billiards, tennis, bowling, roller skating etc. It was such a fun weekend!

Claw games!