Blogging on!

I am glad to finally get this blog going. I hope that I can get across to all of you what we are doing and who we are. Of the nine years Desiree and I have been married we have only lived about six months of that in Virginia around the Monteith Clan. We have been fortunate to have Shane and Naomi close, and for a while Dave and Adam also. But what we really want is a 100 person dinner table and a good game of scattergories. We miss you all even more now that we are in Japan.
That being said, we are very grateful for all the support we have had from family and friends and hope that this blog will help us get even closer. We are all growing, all the time. Sharing ideas, thoughts and hopes will help us know each other again. And if we all find out we can't stand each other then I will just extend my time in Japan! Probably not.
Still, Okinawa is great so far and we have plans for several trips and tours. When we know more we will let people know what we are doing and when, and if you can tag along on some excursion, we will open our home to some would-be world travelers. The Great Wall is on our agenda for next spring, Mainland Japan this fall, and one or two more times after that. Thailand, Australia, Korea. We hope to have some great stories and pictures. More than that we hope to be able to post our love to you all each time. Thanks again for all you have done for us over the years.
Further blogs, at least by me, will not be quite this mushy. Desiree may be a different story.
Love and all that, Mike, Sr.