Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Okinawan Halloween














HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! I love Halloween living on base! There are so many kids that come trick-or-treating--a far cry from the 4 kids that lived in our neighborhood! All of the neighbors just come sit on their porches with a big bowl of candy to hand out to the parade of kids. They also allow some of the Japanese locals come on to trick-or-treat. They come in costume and know how to say "TRICK-OR-TREAT" and "Thank You!" If you try to ask them anything else, like "what is your costume?", they smiled and said "Trick-or-treat."

I know that someday I will dress up and parade around with my infant in a cute costume, but does a child with no teeth deserve candy? Something to think about.


Last year I ran out of candy in 1 hour, so this year I was determined to have plenty to last the whole 2 hours! I don't know how many bags of candy we went through, but I didn't run out!! But, now I still have a couple bags leftover. Oh well, they will feed my patients at the clinic! :)




Shaun and I didn't have an opportunity to dress up this year. That's probably a good thing since my Pregnant Britney Spears costume wouldn't be as funny as it was last year! Well, now it's time to start thinking about Thanksgiving, which for us, will be celebrated on a plane to China! I'll post more later! :)

Monday, October 29, 2007

1st blog






Howdy! Thanks for coming to look at our new blog. Since my sister Marci started one, I thought it would be a good way to let people know what's going on in our lives! We're still living on Okinawa and enjoying our time overseas, but our time here has gone by very quickly. We now only have about 6 months left.


The pictures are from our adventure to Neo Park on Okinawa. It was sort of a glorified petting zoo. We got to feed flamingos, lemurs and tortoises, but I don't think we'll be returning back to this particular park. I think American standards for how animals should be kept is very high, and I think that 's a good thing!





So, since I am new to the blogging, I'm going to end this a little short. But I hope you enjoy the pictures and come back to see more!