Longest Day of my Life...

I am writing this in a hostel in Tokyo...it's Thursday June 16th here, and yesterday was literally the longest day of my life, as I traveled for 24 hours to get here. We left at 4:30 am Colorado time and arrived at our hostel around 8:30 pm Tokyo time (5:30 am Colorado time).

Praise the Lord, we all made it, relatively encouraged (though exhausted) and all of our baggage made it onto the right planes.

Here are some quick photos:

Amy and me in the DIA airport, at 6:30am ready to fly to LAX and then Japan 

(fun fact Japanese people call Japan Nihon)

3 of us on the short plane ride to LAX

This is the plane that took me to Nihon!

This is where I am right now as I write this. 

The hostel is amazing and we've already met a lot of fun new people!

Today we will be gathering the gear we need and riding the shin kan sen (bullet train) North toward Sendai.

Please be praying for finances as some of us haven't been able to pull money from the ATMs, as well as for safety and guidance as we plan our next steps. Please feel free to comment with any questions you have, or email them to me, so I can blog things you want to read about. 

Thanks for your time :)