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| Pretty mountains in the background! |
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| Some kind of restaurant? There was a sign outside of this picture that I was able to read the characters and I knew it said O'sake! :D I need to practice with my flashcards more. |
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| The cities are HUGE and actually really pretty! |
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| I think this is Yokohama. The buildings are really pretty and the downtown is so big. |
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| Some trailer with scooters and a couple motorcycles! |
(Sorry the photos aren't better! it was hard on the bus to see things coming and it was usually too late for me to get the picture if it was cool)
Ohaiyo gazaimas! (Good morning) That was the longest trip of my life, but so worth it! I'm loving Japan and I've only seen a little bit of it so far.
I flew from Nashville to DFW, then up to Seattle. I arrived around 10pm, had to wait until 0150 to check in at the military flight desk. Then, I hung out in the USO until 0530 and went back through security and took off on my plane around 8am Thursday. After a 9 hr flight, I arrived at Yokota AB and took a 2 hr bus to Yokosuka. I arrived around 3pm Saturday! Pfewwwww.
My sponsor and her fiance met me when we arrived and they are awesome! She got me a little welcome to Japan gift in my room and made sure I was good in the BOQ (bachelor officer quarters). I have a living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. It's awesome. The bathtub is SO deep and it gets SUPER hot! I've already taken two super hot baths. I love it. The Japanese love baths and that's one of the things I already love about it.
The bed has this feather mattress topper and I was out all night. I don't think I woke once. Today, I'm just going to relax and maybe go get some groceries at the commissary on base and walk around. It's kinda cool here, but not too bad.
The base is HUGE! My sponsor and her fiance drove me around and showed me where everything is and it's overwhelming, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it. This base is way bigger than Jacksonville. Jacksonville was large in size, but a lot of it was open stuff. The main stuff was all together. Here, it's all spread out that people get taxis on base. They also have a shuttle, so I will try it. I hope to walk a lot, so I can get some good exercise in. They do have two gyms on base and one of them is 24 hrs!
I have a long time of check in this coming week and then orientation the following week and then hospital/nursing orientation after that. I will try and figure out how to hook up with a relator and start looking for a house. I'm so ready to have a "home" again with Cameron! I probably would have done this whole thing differently. Our last real home was in November. I'm so ready to have all our stuff under one roof again! I hope I can find something that is close to the train, so I can just take that to work.
This is a huge adventure and I'm so glad to be here. Only 43 more days and Cameron can join me! I am so glad he will be able to be here to experience all this with me! I think I'm going to get some little candies today at the store and put a bowl out of 43 pieces of candy. I'll eat one each day and I should see the pile go down slowly. I'm sure with orientation and everything, I will be busy and this will fly by. I hope I can have the house set up and ready for him, so when he gets here he can just walk into our new home!
More to come later.....Sayonara!
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