Omedetou Gozaimasu! (Congratulations)

Sunday, January 15th was our official "welcome back" and "congratulations" at Izumi Lutheran Church - our home congregation in Fukushima.  It was a chance for our Japanese friends to celebrate our wedding with us.  Church members thoroughly enjoyed dressing Haidee and I up in traditional kimono attire!

  

After pictures we enjoyed a potlock, with good Japanese foods like root vegetable soup, miso soup, pickled vegetables, ham and turkey slices, tomatoes and kiwi fruit, pork and beef meatballs, boiled eggs, fruit, and, of course, rice.  Here is a rice dish decorated with a heart in the middle.  Haidee and I cut this together with a knife (similar to the tradition at our American wedding).

To finish the afternoon festivities, Haidee and I did a little swing dance.