Just The Four Of Us: Yokosuka's Spring Festival

Sunday there was a festival on base. It was open to the public. It started at 9:00am but we didn't make it there until 11:00. We were still exhausted from the day before. As we were walking towards base we noticed a huge crowd of people walking right along with us. I was kind of scared that it was going to take us a long time to get on to base considering there were so many people. As we reached the base gate we realized that the public did not go in the same entrance that we used. We walked to the other side of base so that we could tour on of the Japanese ships. It was pretty cool to get to go on a Japanese ship and see how different it is from ours. When we finished touring the ships we headed back to where the festival was being held so that we could get something to eat. There were a ton of food vendors but the lines were really long. See Japanese people don't get American food very often and if they do it is really expensive. The Japanese people love when they open up the base. We saw a ton of people walking around with entire pizza's. There were a few people with multiple pizza's. I thought it was kind of funny. So I decided to get a hot dog for lunch considering you cant just get a regular hot dog here so it was kind of nice to have one. Vann also had a hot dog, this time with no bun. Out in town because of the language barrier I can never order Vann a hot dog with no bun. Tony had a beef kabob. Tony wishes he would have gotten a hot dog because the beef on the kabob was really tough. When we finished lunch we took Vann over to the fire truck so that he could sit inside. He didn't want to get out. He through a fit as usual and kept saying, truck, truck as he cried. Vann then was able to dress up like a fireman, He was so cute! After our fun time impersonating a fireman we went and bought tickets for the bounce house. Vann had a lot of fun but didn't want to spend the whole time jumping. When he got out he had his first taste of cotton candy. He didn't know what to think at first but he quickly realized he liked it very much. By this time Tony and I were ready for a nap and it wasn't even 2:00. We walked over to the Commissary so that we could get some groceries before we went back but on the was over there we saw the drummers packing up there drums. We were kind of bummed that we missed the drummer show because Vann has had an interest in drums lately. We walked over to them because we saw that they were letting people take pictures with them and I thought that it would be cute to get Vann's picture taken with them. As we got over there we got more then a picture one of the drummers brought one of the drums out and let Vann play it. Vann loved it and I thought it was nice that the drummer did that for us. We finally made it to the Commissary for Tony to tell me he forgot his orders and we couldn't get in. We then jumped in a cab and called it a day.