Tokyo day three

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We went on a great tour today to Mt Fuji. It was a little dissappointing because it was cloudy and rainy so we couldnt see the top of the mountian. But the Day was great anyways. WE went on a pirate ship cruise and a sky gondola ride. It was awesome. We spent a little while in a place the Japanese named Hell... It was creepy and stinky. I will fill in the rest of the skinny later. Its late right now and I need to sleep.

Our second day in Tokyo

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We arrived in Tokyo today!

Hey we made it to Tokyo today. It is SO nice down here. The weather is a lot nicer than Misawa's. While we were aproaching the airport in Tokyo we had a really pretty view of Mt Fuji. We could pretty much just see the white top but it was beautiful. Then once we got on the airport bus I was so happy to see how green everything and there are flowers all over. It is so nice!!

We arrived at Heneda Airport and took a bus to Narita Airport where we met Sandy and Sean. Then we took a bus to The New Sanno. We ate a greally great dinner here at the hotel. Then we took the subway to the Ginza to see it all lit up. It was really neat.

Thats it so far... I am gonna try loading up the photos we took today.... so look out for them.

I am so excited

We bought plane tickets yesterday to go home this summer and I am So SO excited. We already have lots of stuff planned. My sister even said something about getting married while we are there!! Wouldn't that be awesome if we got to be there?!!

So while I am so excited about going home this summer I have to work on packing for our trip to Tokyo next week. We leave on Sunday!! I already have Wendy's stuff all packed for the kennel and we drop her off tomorrow. I picked out all of our clothes and what not and folded it nicely so all I have to do is put it in the suitcase and finish up with last minute stuff Sunday morning after we finish getting ready. I cannot believe it is Friday already!! Whew

Oh, I just finished a really great book a little while ago. It is called The Honk and Holler Opening Soon. It was written by the same author that wrote Where the Heart Is. I thought it was just as sweet as her other book. I am really glad I ended up buying it. Sometimes when I am buying a book on amazon I start looking at the recommended books they list for you based on what you are buying and I end up buying the recommended books. That is how I found and bought this one and I am glad.

Well, I better get a start on dinner. I will blog if I get a chance while we are in Tokyo since we are taking our laptop and we have dial up in our room.

P.S. with my excitement over going home I decided to post a photo of the last time we were home together... February 2005!!

Entry for April 11, 2007

I haven't blogged in awhile... the days get away from me.

Dave has started his class in TX and so far he is doing really well. He has to do a bunch of speeches in the next week and a half so he is working really hard to get ready for them. Dave is pretty shy when it comes to public speaking but he said the speech he gave yesterday earned him a smiley face grade so he was happy. I know he had a really great time visiting home last week. I think he was sorta wore out by the time he got to Texas but that's OK. It had been too long since he had visited MI. He is really excited about hopefully making it home for a longer visit sometime this summer. I am more than eager to get home since it has been over a year now since I have seen my family. Dave seems to have no problem being away from family but it drives me batty. I miss everyone so much and I hate missing out on everything that goes on in my tight knit family back home.

I have been keeping myself busy since he left. I rearranged the spare bedroom so the new hope chest would fit nicely. It is so nice in there now. I have a couple of scrapbooking projects that I have been meaning to pick up, but for some reason it hasn't happened yet. I have been putting together gifts for my girl cousins and it took me awhile to gather everything then box them up then get them ready for shipping. But I finally have everything ready. I mailed one box on Tuesday.. and i have two boxed to mail tomorrow.

Well, I think that's it for now. I am eager to get back to the book I am reading. Farmer Boy.. Its part of the Little House on the Prairie series.. So far it is great. I hope everyone has a great hump day.

P.S. The picture I posted for this blog is of my Grandma. ( my Mom's Mom) Doesn't she look fun? She passed a few years ago. I miss her even though I don't have a lot of memories of her. She had early onset Alzheimer's. It was rough to watch her forget her family. I was still sort of young when she started forgetting things. But last time I was home I went through my Grandpa's pictures and copied a bunch of photos of her.

This Bird has grown on me

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I was just driving home this morning and I took the road that goes around the flightline, and as I was passing the runway I saw a common site, but today for some reason it made me think. At the End of Runway where the jets get their last look over before they take off, there were a bunch of F-16s lined up. Today they were taking off toward the mountians and the mountians are really clear and beautiful, and there are these 8 jets lined up, and the site was just really awesome. As the first two Japanese Jets took off the rumble of thier engines shook the car and while this happens alot, today with the mountians and everything just made me realize that living on an 'airport' isnt too terrible, because when you watch those things take off it is amazing everytime. While I curse the F-16 because it leaves my husband's hand constantly dirty and his clothes so filthy they have me scrubbing the ring from my wash tub, the truth is I love them. WHen we were first married I didn't know what the heck a fighter jet was. But when I got to Arizona and Dave took me out to the runway at night and we sat there watching them take off with full afterburner I was hooked then. They are SO powerful yet they are small. If you have ever seen a 16 take off you know what I mean. ( even though I got buzzed by a japanese 16 a few days ago while I was driving and my heart stopped and I couldn't breath right again for like over an hour . It was terrible and I nearly peed my pants... I didn't think they were so great that day!!)

Now for the first time in 5 years Dave won't be on the flightline and I am so thankful. But I know how much he loves that jet and I bet the day he goes back to the flightline he will be like a little kid waiting for santa to come. Working on this jet has taken Dave all over in the past 5 years. Las vegas, Hawaii, Alaska, Okinawa, India, Japan, Phoenix. Today though I dropped Dave off for his last TDY for the rest of our time here in Japan. It is so exciting to know we have an easy 2 years ahead of us. He won't be working 12+ hour days anymore!! And he will get lunch breaks!!! And he won't come home dirty!!! And he won't be deployed for the remainder of our time in Japan!!! Yippie. I just have to get along ok without him for the next 20 days....

Bazaar Buys!!

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Dave is still a little upset about how much we spent but I am sure it will wear off soon. I am SO excited about the things we bought this weekend. WE bought these three amazing wood plates. They are really beautiful. I am going to hang them up... I just don't know where yet. We also bought a HOPE CHEST!! I LOVE it so much! My hope chest was messed up during our first move and we got rid of it. BUt this one is really beautiful and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! The pictures don't show it off very well... but trust me its great.

Hope you all had a great weekend.