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  • I've always loved the weekends.

  • It's when all the hard work of the week pays off and we take time out to recharge our batteries and refocus our energy.

  • Yes, the weekend is more than just a breakit's a necessary part of a healthy life!

  • Get ready for the weekend, Life in Japan style!

  • Yes!

  • Getting ready to go...

  • It's Friday! Yeah! Yeah!

  • Are you having a good attitude, honey?

  • Look at the bearhe's saying bye bye to the camera.

  • We love Fridays — even if you're tired from the week, you can practically taste the weekend! It's so close!

  • Hey, don't mess with my stuffed animal! OK, let's go. Go outside.

  • Say bye. Bye.

  • We're finding just the right cars, right?

  • We're going to do a Mario race?

  • After the girls go to school, I have 30 minutes to play with Joshua before I take him to kindergarten.

  • We have that Donkey Kong. We have the small Donkey Kong.

  • We have the cheering Donkey Kong...

  • We've got the Joshua-Kong.

  • No! No?

  • He's Donkey Kong! Oh, that's Donkey Kong? OK

  • Beep, beep, BEEP!

  • Shortcut? What a huge shortcut!

  • Shortcut!

  • I'm going to do a huge paraglide off of Big J.

  • I'm going to do a huge paraglide off of Daddy!

  • What?!

  • Whoa, that's huge dude!

  • These special play times together have helped Joshua enjoy going to school.

  • That was a huge jump, Dude! Huge jump!

  • There you go! Good job cleaning up before school. Good job!

  • Let's go dude?

  • Can you check in my backpack? Check in your backpack and see what kind of lunch you're having today?

  • If it's a school lunch or if it's a mommy lunch?

  • Here's how we roll in the rain here. On my bike, but I stay dry like this. I got my new boots on.

  • What a rainy, rainy day today!

  • So in the rain, the mask comes off, otherwise it gets soaking wet when you're on the bike.

  • But when you get off the bike, the mask goes back on.

  • We have to decide what colors are going to be on our new signsoh my goodness!

  • There's 6840, this medium color, and then this one as the highlight color.

  • Are you enjoying a cookie? Oh my goodness, slow down a little bit! Is it so good?

  • Once everyone's off to school it's time to get busy and work. Here we go- there's a lot on the plate.

  • Joshua got a special cookie today, but I have a special lunch date

  • We're having another date in Shinjuku while we can.

  • Lunch date: some fish and chips, potatoes and some other yummies here with this beautiful lady.

  • It was good, wasn't it? It was good!

  • We got our Under Armor purchase too, didn't we?

  • Yes!

  • We're going to pick up Sarah!

  • This is like the jungle way, huh?

  • Joshua!

  • Awww!

  • Sarah we came to pick you up!

  • Hey Sarah, how was school today? Good.

  • I missed you so much, Sarah.

  • Now we're going to walk home with Sarah.

  • Working on another "Life in Japan."

  • It is a lot of work doing this!

  • I don't think it's a lot of work.

  • Well it's not a lot of work for you! You just lay there and look pretty.

  • I've gotta do all the work of putting the video together,

  • Because you're a Daddy. Yeah, I'm a Daddy and that's what daddy's do, huh?

  • On Friday nights we watch Life in Japan. I have my computer out so I can respond to all the comments that are out there.

  • While we all watchit's always fun!

  • 10, 9, 8, 7...

  • Good morning, Dude! Good morning.

  • What's everybody doing up here? Good morning, Sarah.

  • Good morning. Did you sleep so good?

  • Yeah.

  • Oooooo - sun, sun, sun!

  • Thank you sun for coming out finally!

  • (Singing) Finally the sun has come to say good morning, finally the sun has come to...

  • It feels nice that the sun's out to wake us up in the morning.

  • This is a very common sound in the Reutter household in the mornings.

  • One of the first things I do is make coffee.

  • What are you drawing, Sarah?

  • I'm just making everything black.

  • Whoa. It's a camera.

  • It does kind of look like a camera, doesn't it?

  • Hi camera!

  • Ah, there you go.

  • There's the camera. That's what Sarah sees all the time, huh?

  • It's Saturday which means we're giving Ruth a chance to sleep in.

  • I'll try to get some of the breakfast going for the kids so she can just have a nice morning off because she works so hard.

  • Going to make some pancakes.

  • It's hard to stir and film!

  • (Joshua) I can help you stir.

  • You can help me stir? Uh huh.

  • OK

  • You're doing it, Dude. Good job, good job!

  • The pancakes are on, my coffee is done and being enjoyed.

  • It's Saturday at the Reutter's, yea!

  • I love Saturdays. This is the only day we can eat pancakes.

  • And we can play with our friends all day.

  • Saturdays are fun, aren't they?

  • No school.

  • Alright, the kids are fed, so I'm going to take Ruth coffee in bed. She'll love it.

  • OK, now what do you want?

  • I like my pancakes cut.

  • You want your pancakes cut? Why aren't the girls doing that? They were doing that.

  • Not now, they're not.

  • Oh no!

  • So this bed, if you didn't see this in earlier episodes, because the earlier episodes aren't subtitled in Japanese,

  • But this is our bed!

  • And it changes back and forth to a couch.

  • And this is part of my routine every morning and every evening, is getting the bed ready.

  • Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

  • We're getting our morning visit from Joey. What 'cha doing, Joey?

  • Oh, is that what you're doing? Are you drawing on there? I want to...

  • Are you drawing on there while Becca helps?

  • I want to draw on there! No you don't!

  • Joey came over to visit and he found the hose outside really fast.

  • Alright Dude, let's do some Uno?!

  • Well, the day started off sunny but... I know!

  • But what happened here? At least it's not raining, huh?

  • Well Ben and I got our 6k in

  • It feels good. It did, and it's hot out!

  • The kids are enjoying the stream here.

  • This is the way to do it in the summer. Living the life!

  • It's Ramen time here for us, right?

  • Is it Ramen time, dude?

  • Is it so yummy, dude?

  • Here we are! I'm heading into our beloved Coffee Shop because tomorrow's our first day back at our church in months!

  • We're super excited about that!

  • So I came in here tonight just to make sure that we have everything setup, working properly

  • Because it's been months since we used this equipment like the keyboard and the sound system live,

  • So I'm going to give it a little test before tomorrow.

  • I've got my Sunday shoes on today, heading to church. Oh yeah.

  • Alright, we're just about ready to start! I've got my family up here on the front row with us, and other people are coming in!

  • We are ready to rock and roll! Common!

  • It feels good to be back!

  • Baaaa!!!

  • He didn't even flinch!

  • Cat, cat, I'm a cat.

  • It was a busy day and now everyone's just chilling. Watching a show, huh?

  • And that's just a part of our weekend routine. Thanks for making us a part of yours! See you next time on Life in Japan.

  • Reviewing Japanese before class. The student, being a good student!

I've always loved the weekends.

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