Rainy Days, and an Uninteresting Week

For the last few days we have had some serious rain! It seems just about every day we get at least a small rain shower, however Tuesday and Wednesday it just rained constantly. Rainy days make me want to stay inside and curl up with a good book and just loaf. Which is so not good for all the things I need to get done around our place!

We have a baseball field in our 'backyard' and it seriously looks like a lake right now! You can actually see little waves in it! I don't think there will be any games being played any time soon! Which even though we think they play way too much (hello 7am on a Saturday), I am kind of missing their constant chattering outside our balcony, it gave me something to watch during the day.

On another note, don't know if anyone back in the States heard, but we had a big earthquake on Tuesday! It was a 6.9 and was just a little over 100 miles off Okinawa's coast! It was crazy! We have had quite a few earthquakes since we have been here, but this was by far the biggest one yet! It seemed to last a good minute as well (even though Bryan said it only lasted 15 seconds...I don't believe him because he didn't know we were having an earthquake, he thought the truck he was in was dying lol).

This week is slowly going by, nothing too exciting. We went to dinner on Tuesday night, then came home and hooked up our Apple TV, wohoo we get shows now!!!  Yesterday was a lazy day at home, with Bryan at work, and today I will be babysitting in the afternoon, and then it's Friday!! And Bryan is OFF work on Friday, wohoo for holidays!

So yup that sums up our week, pretty boring I know. I have been working on a few DIY projects and so far they are turning out great! I can't wait til they are finished and I can show them off!! 

A Late Weekend Update

Our weekend is sadly over (awhile ago! this post may have been in the works since Monday lol), and Thursday is almost over! Seriously where does the time go?? On Friday when Bryan got home from work I was already at work! Yup you read that right! I got a job!!! I am nannying for a fellow military family that live on the next base over (about 15 mins away). They have 3 kids; 6yrs, 2yrs and a 1yr old. They are great kids, and are sooo much fun! I was there from 6pm-11pm, so Bryan got to do his manly stuff at home i.e. play xbox and work on his car not my cup of tea lol

Saturday we 'loafed' around the apartment in the morning and did some more unpacking and then decided to get out and about. One of the Marine bases on the island was having their Holiday Bazaar so we went to that, and I didn't even buy anything!! There were a lot of things I liked but nothing I couldn't live with out. So after that we decided to try a new restaurant, well it's not new but new to us! Bryan had heard about it at work so went there. It's called the Big Di-Chan, it was actually a pretty good little restaurant. We both ordered the same thing, they had menus with pictures in it, which is how we ordered because otherwise we didn't understand the menu! So from what we could tell our meal was going to be breaded chicken, rice and a bowl of soup. We were very surprised when our meal came because it was HUGE! There was sooo much food, we could have split one dinner instead of each of us ordering our own! But it was very tasty and yummy! And surprisingly for all that food it was only 1,789Yen! Which is about $23, so not too bad! One of the cheaper places that are on the island actually! After dinner we stopped for icecream, and then came home and watched some movies we have been waiting to watch til our BIG TV arrived!

Sunday we were able to Skype with both of families, so that was nice. And then  we did our grocery shopping then came home and made dinner and just relaxed around the apartment and got ready for the week ahead of us.

So not totally a jam packed weekend, but that is okay with us. We like being home and watching movies and just being together. Here are some pics from the restaurant!

Me with all my food lol it was like my own little buffet! I mean the soup bowl was bigger than my head!

And Bryan with his food!

The huge amount of food, I didn't even finish all my meal! That little bowl behind the soup bowl was a cold salad of mixed greens and some 'weird' stuff, I actually tried it! I was surprised by myself because normally I stick to things I know, but I figured I am going to have try the random things here, otherwise I am not really experiencing it! And it was actually good! Bryan of course ate everything, without thinking twice lol

On the way back from the restaurant we stopped at the park that we keep driving by, this time it was night and soooo pretty! I loved the views!

Then we decided to stop for icecream!!! Bryan was too quick and started eating his before I could get my camera out!

An Update, wohoo!!!

Has it already been over 2 weeks since we last updated?? Wow, time is really going fast here, well actually the days don't go fast, but when I sit back and actually realize that we have been here over a month already that just seems insane!!! Since I am a countdowner (is that even a word?) we have 35 months left here in Okinawa! Sounds extremely long, but if it goes like this past month it will be over in a *few* blinks of an eye!

Depending on the day and which one of us you talk to you will hear that either we like it here, we love it here or we *wish* we were somewhere else...can anyone say Europe? But, that isn't the case, the Air Force sees it best if we stay in Okinawa for the next three years, trust me I have asked if we can move sooner apparently they don't go for early releases lol So I am bound and determined to make the next 35 months a fun adventure, because after all our blog is titled Adventures in Japan!

One of the first adventures we have had is eating at a little Japanese restaurant called Arin Krin or as others refer to it the Garlic House. I found this restaurant while searching the OkinawaHai website (which is a website written by military spouses (mostly wives) about different places here in Okinawa and the best part is they give awesome reviews, so just by reading some of the reviews I can determine if it would worth our interest to actually go to them! We have already been to two different restaurants that were featured on the OkiHai! And they both got a thumbs up from Bryan and I!

Back to the Garlic House. After reading about this restaurant I knew we HAD to go to it. I mean Bryan LOVES garlic so I figured this restaurant was made for him! After driving around the restaurant in circles literally, about 6 times (there were only 4 parking spots for that place, and so we kept circling the block looking for another spot to park) we finally found a parking spot! The restaurant was a very cute little place with lots of tables and we were shown to a seat fairly quickly, after reading that you should have a reservation I was a little worried that we would be waiting a long time, but we didn't have to!

We ordered 4 different items off the menu which thankfully we did, because the portions are soooo tiny here. Seriously now I know why Japanese people are so skinny, they hardly eat anything! Maybe I can learn from them! We ended up ordering the shrimp, chicken, fish and fried mashed potatoes! They were sooo yummy!! However...because of the small portions we were still hungry when we were done there so went down the street to the Big Dip icecream parlor and had some *expensive* icecream =) It was a great date night out for us, even if we did spend most of the day/night lost!

The restaurant! It even had little 'garlic people' painted on the side!

Yummy garlic chicken dish!

The garlic shrimp, was my favorite!!!

The deep fried Mashed Potatoes with cheese, these were awesome!

The garlic fish!

yummy icecream place!

Our icecream! Mine was a coffee flavored, and Bryan's was Blue Wave, it was like bubblegum with pineapple chunks!

And here is just a recent picture we took Sunday morning on our way to Church,  we found a cute little park that had an awesome view! We can't wait take our Little Bella there!!