Five months after our last overseas trip, Isaac and Belle headed to Japan on 5/12 with a school music tour. Having paid their own way there, we saw this as a good opportunity to join them at the end of their trip and tack on some Jones exploring while we didn’t have to pay everyone’s way 😉

Sadly, Jarrod and Tim could not join us due to work and end-of-uni commitments, but we will still be a party of 8! We swapped them out for Tom and our niece, Jess.

Our flight left Sydney on Sunday night at 9.45pm, and it was a surprise that we all made it on board. Ross has been having back and other referred pain for the last week, and was having tests on Friday for kidney stones and appendicitis 😬😬 but he was cleared to fly, so off we go with many painkillers along for the journey…..