Japan is still cleaning up after the 4th strongest earthquake in recorded history

It seems like the March 11th earthquake was a long time ago. The media has stopped airing coverage of the devastation, but the recovery efforts are very much still underway. This past weekend we went to a beach that we have been to several times to walk around. This beach is roughly 8 minutes from our house. Elijah has picked seashells here before, climbed the tower over and over again, played in the sand, etc. We were surprised to see so it in the condition it was in ......

A beautiful landmark on our way through the woods to our beach.

This sign was not covered by sand like this prior to March 11th

This stand used to hold a replica plane of Miss Veedol. The first plane to take a trans-Pacific flight. It was washed away during the tsunami. Part of it was behind me (picture below) and the other part was about 200 feet away by the tree line.

This asphalt was lined up with a smooth decline of the sand, that gradually went down into the coastline. Now it's a 5ft drop!

Even the concrete barrier separated during the quake.

Please continue to pray for the recovery efforts of such a beautiful country!

How about some chips??

So this morning we decided to get out the house and just drive around to see what we could find!! We thought these would be an interesting post --- these are the 'unique' Japanese chip-like things we found today. Some we bought .... some we didn't.

I'm a sucker for a store that has organized shelves! This was a GAS STATION guys! Way to go!

E.V.E.R.Y. single item is stocked and pulled to the front of the shelf! They are actually a very busy store too!

Check out the Gourmet Doritos......salad flavor

Mmmm these are sausage flavored Doritos

Curry flavored chips....on another note: CoCo's is a curry here in restaurant...very yummy too!

Eddie and I think this one is French Onion Soup flavored? Since we don't/can't read Kanji...I guess we will never know :(

spicy taco flavor....these were DELICIOUS to all 3 of us! Eddie polished off the bag the same night we bought them!

Fondue cheese flavored ....yummy also! These are so much better than American Cheetos...they have a softer cheese flavor.....like a cheese soup.

BBQ flavored Cheeto-like.......also great!

Hamburger flavored chips

Notice that these are actually shaped like a ham bone! ha ha ha Ham flavored

Geeee I am going to miss Japan!