Good day to you!
http://www.japan-i.jp/explorejapan/chubu/nagano/karuizawa-yatsugatake/d8jk7l00000006g5.html
Flow and I are just sitting he
re in our new place where we will be living untill March. We had originally moved in with Sue and Phillip when we arrived in Karuizawa becuase there was a lady from Tokyo who was still in our cabin untill friday night. Now we have truly discovered why counter space is important. Our kitchen is about 4' by 8' with about 3' of counter space(a microwave has decided to claim that space). I think we can live with this however becuase lucky for us Sue has so graciously offered to do our cooking for both lunch and supper. If you would like to check out a little bit about Karuizawa I found this sit ethat gives a brief overview:
re in our new place where we will be living untill March. We had originally moved in with Sue and Phillip when we arrived in Karuizawa becuase there was a lady from Tokyo who was still in our cabin untill friday night. Now we have truly discovered why counter space is important. Our kitchen is about 4' by 8' with about 3' of counter space(a microwave has decided to claim that space). I think we can live with this however becuase lucky for us Sue has so graciously offered to do our cooking for both lunch and supper. If you would like to check out a little bit about Karuizawa I found this sit ethat gives a brief overview:http://www.japan-i.jp/explorejapan/chubu/nagano/karuizawa-yatsugatake/d8jk7l00000006g5.html
Right now it is 11:00Pm Sunday and we are on days off for the weekend. It is 7:00Pm Saturday 
night for you guys making us about 16 hours different. Flo and I started working Thursday morning after arriving at the retreat center on Wednesday afternoon. We have now pulled apart the whole interior and the front exterior wall on the cabin that will be our project while we are here. When we got here it still had stuff in it like a sink and furniture. We started by emptying it out and then proceded to rip it down one piece at a time. We now have the whole front of the building ripped out so that we could replace a rotten 4 by 4 beam and rebuild it. We plan to redo all of the flooring, framing and all the way up minus the new roof. The reason we have to 
do it this way is because the mission can rebuild the cabins without a permit providing the whole thing isn't taken down. A little bit of a pain except getting a permit here is more difficult, so thats the way the cookie crumbles. We now have to try and draw up a final plan of what the place is going to look like. We have some drawings from Nate the guy who put the addition and the roof on but we might have to rethink 
some of it now that we have all of the posts and beams exposed. Yesterday (Saturday) we slept in and then in the afternoon Flow and I went for an adventure. We began to walk up the mountain that we are near the base of and after about a Km or so of road we found a pedestrian bridge and we decided we would take a snowy foot trail and see where it would take us. We ended up coming out at the top of the mountain after a short break to climb some trees and take some pictures of Mt. Asama (Volcano). Much to our surprise we found that there was a whole developed lookout point with benches statues and a English speaking Japenese couple. YESSS! As we decided to take the paved path away from the lookout, we wer
e once again surprised as we found a villiage right there! It was mostly shut down as Karuizawa is a primarily summer getaway for many. We found a very interesting looking temple of some sort however the one english sign in the place said NOT TO TAKE PICTURES so we tried to respect them. Some beautifull buildings and carvings. We came back to the Bachelor pad and had some noodles before going to the Prince snowboarding hill for some night snowboarding. It is about a 10 min drive from here and cost us a total of 1,000 Yen apiece. Now before you get carried away thinking that is so much it isn't. 1,000 yen is about $11.33 Can which is amazing and it was a pile of fun. Not a huge hill but there was about four different chair lifts running and for mostly man made snow it was very soft about -5c. The snowboarding scene here is just as much of a fashion statement as in Canada, pants to the knees and jackets about 4 times to big. The English church service is at 2PM today so now I must go for lunch.
night for you guys making us about 16 hours different. Flo and I started working Thursday morning after arriving at the retreat center on Wednesday afternoon. We have now pulled apart the whole interior and the front exterior wall on the cabin that will be our project while we are here. When we got here it still had stuff in it like a sink and furniture. We started by emptying it out and then proceded to rip it down one piece at a time. We now have the whole front of the building ripped out so that we could replace a rotten 4 by 4 beam and rebuild it. We plan to redo all of the flooring, framing and all the way up minus the new roof. The reason we have to 
do it this way is because the mission can rebuild the cabins without a permit providing the whole thing isn't taken down. A little bit of a pain except getting a permit here is more difficult, so thats the way the cookie crumbles. We now have to try and draw up a final plan of what the place is going to look like. We have some drawings from Nate the guy who put the addition and the roof on but we might have to rethink 
some of it now that we have all of the posts and beams exposed. Yesterday (Saturday) we slept in and then in the afternoon Flow and I went for an adventure. We began to walk up the mountain that we are near the base of and after about a Km or so of road we found a pedestrian bridge and we decided we would take a snowy foot trail and see where it would take us. We ended up coming out at the top of the mountain after a short break to climb some trees and take some pictures of Mt. Asama (Volcano). Much to our surprise we found that there was a whole developed lookout point with benches statues and a English speaking Japenese couple. YESSS! As we decided to take the paved path away from the lookout, we wer
e once again surprised as we found a villiage right there! It was mostly shut down as Karuizawa is a primarily summer getaway for many. We found a very interesting looking temple of some sort however the one english sign in the place said NOT TO TAKE PICTURES so we tried to respect them. Some beautifull buildings and carvings. We came back to the Bachelor pad and had some noodles before going to the Prince snowboarding hill for some night snowboarding. It is about a 10 min drive from here and cost us a total of 1,000 Yen apiece. Now before you get carried away thinking that is so much it isn't. 1,000 yen is about $11.33 Can which is amazing and it was a pile of fun. Not a huge hill but there was about four different chair lifts running and for mostly man made snow it was very soft about -5c. The snowboarding scene here is just as much of a fashion statement as in Canada, pants to the knees and jackets about 4 times to big. The English church service is at 2PM today so now I must go for lunch.
Josh
Thanks for the site address Josh. Looks like you guys are doing a great job on the cabin and mananging to take in some fun and cultural learnig too. Bless you as you support the work of mission in this way. I am glad they have two men who do quality work.
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-Rob
Thanks so Much Rob, it means alot to us that you are behind us.
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