Day 9 - Tuesday - Disney Sea

We went to Disney sea. It was right next to Disney land but we figure we could do that back home. We had a great time we stayed until 9pm. We were all worn out for the 2 hour drive home, it is only 35 miles from their house. You have to drive super slow and the traffic is usually pretty bad.

Day 8 - Monday - Mt. Fuji

At the shop we saw a t-shirt that said "The most highest mountain in Japan" And it was the most highest I have seen!

Day 7 - Sunday - A day of rest

Well today they had General Conference and so we had a nice relaxing day at Joe's parent's house. We took a short walk around there neighborhood. They live in a small suburb near the base. Their house is big. Most live in apartments.

Nana and Grandpas house

A shrine in the neighborhood

Emma in front of the sign for the very old house

This is the really old house

My little Reagan

~The crew~

It started to sprinkle on the way home so Emma was thrilled to get out her umbrella

For dinner Nana made us a Japanese dish and rice balls.

Day 6 - Saturday - Mt.Takao

Today we got up and drove about an hour and a half to Mt. Takao. We road on a train up about half of the mountain and then walked. we couldn't go to the top because it was stairs and we had two strollers. We saw many temples and other praying areas. Every once in a while they had places to buy snacks and other interesting things. It was a ton of fun but very long and parts were really steep. The temples were amazing.

Day 5 - Friday - Showa Park

Today was a ton of fun. We hung out at the apartment and went to the BX and Commissary. After Joe's Dad got off work around noon we took our first train ride. we walked about 20 minutes to get to the train and road on the train for about 30 minutes to the Kinen Park. The flower festival was going on and so there were millions of the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen. I took so many pics (don't worry they are not all in the slide show). they had tons of fun things to do with the kids. I kept thinking how fun it would be to have a mom's group at a place like this! The Japanese people loved my kids! One even asked to take a picture with them, only Emma would cooperate. She just picked her up and put Emma in her lap.

Day 4 - Thursday - relaxing on base

Well thursday morning began way to early... This is Reagan at 2 AM wide awake and ready to play. The time change was hard for us all. Emma and tyler slept in until 5 so that was good.

It rains most days here and today was no diffirent. We wanted to get out of the apartement (We are staying in an apartment on base for a few days) so we went for a walk. It was cold and wet but the kids didn't seem to mind much!

Emma loves puddles and in the beginging we told her to stay out but on the walk back we let her have fun!
Watching a plane coming in.

Tyler on the very wet play ground!

Reagan being a wonderful baby!

Emma having fun!

After the walk they took a nice hot bath and we waited for Joe's dad to get off work so we could get some dinner and go bowling. It was our kids first time to bowl. We ate at the bowling alley on base. We didn't want to do much today so we could get use to the time change and relax!

Emma holding her ball.

Tyler and Grandpa

Reagan

Emma ready to bowl

And it is off!

Tyler only used this once he liked throwing the ball. Most times it would hit both sides of the bumpers 4 or 5 times before reaching the pins.

Leanna - she beat us all pretty badly!!!

Joe

Kevin

Day 3 - Wednesday - What day?

Yup this is the day we lost crossing over the date line! We left on Tuesday and woke up on Thursday it was pretty weird! I felt like we lost out on a whole day of Japanese FUN!