Well thought it was time to catch up on here, we have had Mom with us for 2 weeks now and unfortunately her time here on the island with us is coming to end to quickly!! But we have had so much fun taking her out to experience some of our favorite foods here and she is calling this her "cultural trip"!!! She has enjoyed our Japanese house, still is a little freaked out by the sized of the roads in the neighborhoods, but getting used to it!! She only flinches a little now when another car is coming at us!!!!
We also celebrated Ken's 16th Anniversary in the Marine Corps, and it doesn't seem possible some days that it has been that long since I said goodbye to him to go to bootcamp, and I couldn't be more proud of him!!! And speaking of Ken he just finished a grueling 3 week Martial arts course that has made him an instructor as well as a higher belt rank, and did it being on average 10+ years older than the others in the class!!!! So I have to say that I am pretty proud of him for that accomplishment too!!!!! Love ya Hun!!!!
Mom and Maddie after church in one of the outfits Gram had brought over for Maddie.
One of our favorite restaurants is Kitakaisens and and we knew we had to take Mom there for her cultural experience, you sit on Tatami mat floors and put your feet in big cut out in the floor.
We ordered several of our favorites and shared around the table. And Mom was very happy when they brought her out a fork!!!!!
The picture of all of us dressed up was taken at Ruyuku Mura, it is an attraction of how the island was like pre- WWII and it has actual bldgs from that time period that were moved there and preserved. It was a neat look back into the cultural we are surrounded by!!! So we thought what the heck and dressed up for a picture to remember it by, and Ken was a great sport and got to be the King!!!!
Well I guess that will do it for now, we love and miss you all and hopefully we might know in a couple of weeks where we will be going next!!!
