Today is my husbands birthday, so to celebrate we took a road trip! We had no destination in mind just the bottom of Okinawa. So we took off and found the most amazing places. We would see interesting signs and take off that direction. We are those kind of travelers. It can be a fun way to travel, or if your like my dad it horrifies you! Let me send a late shout out to my dad for fathers day.
Dad, I love you, I hope you had a great fathers day. Next year I will not be so distracted and you will get a suitable fathers day card/gift. (-: Plus when you come visit, I will will make suitable travel plans will scheduled stops on the
itinerary. I will also make sure to have gas, all fluids and the right amount of air in the tires. You taught me well, I know how to travel safely.
HAPPY LATE FATHERS DAY, your the best.
Back to our trip, I would love to tell you all the places we stopped but honestly I am not sure of
the names. Some places I do know.
OKINAWA OUTLET MALL- I know, I know but it was on the map, so we checked it out. Got some
icecream, looked at
Rino beetles for sale. Used the very cool bathroom. The kids would not stop talking
about the toilets!
CAPE
KYAN- cool place. One of the guys there selling stuff took our picture. He just walked up and offered. He was practicing his
English and i was practicing my
Japanese.
GUSHIKAWA CASTLE RUINS- very awesome, that is where my oldest found a purple crab.
The most fun was through the windy small roads we took we took some small road and parked near other cars,. We walked down steps made out of the cliff (using a rope) and got down to where we could look for shells and wade in the water. We found some really nice shells there.
We did finally make it to the Peace Memorial. It was already kind if late and we just drove around and let
the kids play at the play ground. It was a blast. We will go back and hang out there another day. I want to climb these steps that go up the
mountain. Wonder what is at
the top of those?!!
Finish the night off with dinner at the family mart. (like 7-11) Japanese
convenience store food is the best.
I am
determined to learn this language. I really need
to learn to read it well. So I will be looking into that soon.
P.S. I had heard (
okinawahai) that the maps here are a
guideline. Oh how true that is. I could not believe how the map just did not line up
right with the roads. It was a pretty interesting. We did
arrive home though. All in one piece with some cool memories.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY.. I love you.
lots of our pics on on our flickr account. So check them out. More to put on but my battery is charging.
