Sunday, April 26, 2015

The Sunday Snapshot

The koinobori are back along the Tengan River to celebrate Golden Week. 

Saturday, April 25, 2015

The Pedicures

My and my husband's feet are much prettier after the weekend we both tried new experiences with pedicures. On Saturday I went with Beverly to her first post-baby pedicure. Instead of the Cocok's on the seawall that I know and love, we went to the Cocok's on Highway 23 with a whole new book of designs! Pedicures are meant to be relaxing, but I could not help but stress over picking one design out of hundreds by the time came to paint my toes. While the seawall location only has around ten chairs, this place was huge with around forty chairs and different rooms for other services. I saw many wives bringing their husbands along to enjoy the lengthy calf massage, but this visit was just for us girls. 

SO. MANY. CHOICES.


I FINALLY chose pink hibiscus flowers.

Matt had his opportunity Sunday when we went to Okinawa World. He tried the Dr. Fish pedicure with our friends who were nervous about letting tiny fish nibble the dead skin off their toes, and those fish LOVED his feet! 

This is the face of being tickled and NOT kicking fish in the face.

An all-you-can-eat buffet for Dr. Fish!

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sunday, April 12, 2015

The Sunday Snapshot

My fortune: Moderately lucky with advice to learn a foreign language. Touché English fortune in Japan.


Saturday, April 11, 2015

The Life Aboard Ship

It's Matt again. You may have noticed that I have not been in any pictures recently. This is because I have been exercising my amphibiosity and living aboard a naval vessel for the last few months. I am currently attached to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU. The Marine Corps is famous for its ability to respond to crises within a day. They do this by having big groups of Marines floating all over the world on ships with all the equipment they would need for any kind of mission. The end result is a bunch of Marines and gear being stacked (literally from floor to ceiling) aboard a navy ship already full of sailors. Ship life is different. I am glad to be back on dry land. I missed sunlight, steady ground, and having more than 8 square feet to myself. And Amanda. While Amanda was blogging in Okinawa I was taking photos of my own adventures onboard ship and during our exercises in Malaysia and Korea. 

My room and one of my three roommates. This is officer berthing because the beds are not stacked six high.

This is a LCAC which is how the navy spells "hovercraft." Can you hear 10-year-old Matt squealing?

Our first stop was Malaysia and IT. WAS. AWESOME.

Our tour guide Oswald. He showed us monkeys and monitor lizards and took us into the jungle.
The night market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Great street food for cheap.



Ship to shore raids in Ospreys.