The Clay's come to visit

When you move overseas EVERYONE says ohh I am going to come visit!
After three overseas moves, that almost never happens. Now my mom, she shows up everywhere, because she is awesome.
This time we had our very first visitors, and it wasn't my mom.
It was The Clay's!
We like to think of them as family and I am still in shock that they came all the way here.
The first day I was still in Hawaii and they went to the sea wall and Ton ton's, Dino's favorite ramen place. I wasn't there so not sure if there are pictures of that!
Monday we took them to Cape Zampa to see the Giant Shisa.
Had to get Keith with the lighthouse. The light was so harsh but there is no waiting when your visitors have 6 days.

Had a homeless guy take our picture, we then bought some sugar cane off him.


She loved the guy in the background with the hat.

We went to Maeda point and flats after. Great views from there.


We decided to take some silly ones.

Keith made a friend!

Cindy loved the hot canned coffee that came out of the vending machine.

The last day was rainy and very windy, we thought Keith was going to blow away.

The rain would not stop her from finding shells. She was determined!

I have TONS more but need to get this up.

There was one last picture Dino had for a friend in LA.... gotta eat those oranges David, they keep you healthy!

Thanks for coming we had so much fun. We can't wait to see you again!

Flaking out

I have been horrible about posting here and I vow to do better. I will catch up on all the months that have passed but I will start with current things since they are fresh in my mind.
Up first will be a trip our friends took out here, then the trip I took to Hawaii by MYSELF! From then we will back track till whenever it was I left off.
Hang on here we go...

Exploring the south. Again

We went back to the Gushikawa Castle, then we went down the hill and exploring. We came across a lot of cool stuff.







We turned off on some road near there and came across a little garden deal and an old guy. We went to see if we could get to the water from there and when we came back to the car he had dragon fruit for all of us.

He stayed clean while eating...

THIS. His sisters did not.


We then went back to the Peace Memorial park. We haven't actually seen any of the memorial but we have played on the playground there twice!










We always have a great time on our adventures. Come visit and you can explore with us.

Channel Crevices

One of our favorite spots when it is warm here is down south at the Channel Crevices.
It is an awesome dive spot but I just love to take the kids to snorkel. It is such a cool area, there aren't many Americans and the kids have a blast.
Here are the pictures in no particular order and on two different trips. One without swimsuits and one with.






This Japanese family had this whole set up right on the edge of the water. It was a great idea they were having a lovely picnic.
The next time we went though it was high tide and that part was completely submerged. We may have to try that this spring.

If you are here let me know and we will take a trip down there when it warms up.