Playing With Friends

Yesterday we met up with our friends Becky, Claire and Olivia at the park. Vann had so much fun with the girls. Vann gets so excited when other kids are around. I am so thankful that Hans and Becky are staying closer this year oppose to last year. It was so hard to get together and hang out last year. I have a filling we will be hanging out a lot this year.

Walked 7.5 miles

Here Come The Subs

Here are some pictures that I took from our room. These are the Japanese subs. The one is heading out. I noticed that they take at least one out everyday. I don't know if these are practices dives or if they are truly monitoring the surrounding water. I think it is funny that every time one goes out or comes in the crew is all standing on top of the sub. I don't understand that.

Having Fun!

Today we took a bus to the other end of base to go check out a thrift store that we had gone to last year. Of course we got all the way out there to see that they had shut down and moved and would'nt be opening back up until some time in March. We decided to walk back and along the way we saw a lot of different play areas. We stop at this one considering I had saw it the other day when we went to check out the gym. Vann had so much fun. There were two other little boys there that Vann be-friended.

Here is a picture of our Hotel from the outside. I took this picture while Vann was playing at the little park across the street.



I love this picture. His expression is too cute.

COSTCO

Monday we decided to head up to Costco. We figured since it was a US Holiday it wouldn't be that busy. We were right. As we walked through the door a lady handed us some Japanese coupons. We saw that they had a coupon for kids toothbrushes. We had actually decided that Vann needed a new toothbrush so we ended up getting 6 toothbrushes for $4.50. I thought that was a pretty good deal. We walked around for a while looking at all of the things that they had. A lot of the things were just like ours back home, in fact the packaging was even in English. The only difference was some of the food they carried. Like shrimp and squid pizza, shrimp crackers, and a lot of other weird stuff. We had found a waterproof travel blanket that we decided to get. As we got up to the cashier I gave her my costco card. She handed me a paper to fill out. I got scared that our card wouldn't work. Instead it was just a international form that we needed for them to put in their computer system. When we finished paying we headed over to the food court so that Vann and I could get a mango smoothie. Tony ended up getting some coffee and a churro. We had to wait for the coffee so the lady gave me a number to wait off to the side. I was trying to pay attention but I have no idea what number 82 is in Japanesse. A guy behind me finally nudged me and told me that they had called my number. I truly felt like a forigner. I hate that feeling. We left and went and caught the train back to our hotel.

My sister-in-law had bought me a pedometer for my birthday. I am absessed with it. We walked about 6.2 miles yesturday by the time we got back. We have been averaging at least 5 miles a day. You don't realize how much you walk in a day here. I will keep you guys updated with our mileage.

Convayerbelt up to the parking garage. You ride it up with your shopping cart.
Convayerbelt coming down from the parking garage.


I remeber thinking that this was so funny last year so I decided to ride it up and then come back down. I am the one in the white hate. In fact I am the only American.




Here is the blanket that we bought along with Vann's new toothbrushes.