The countdown begins!

It isn't long now that I will begin my journey back to the States to pick up Logan so that he can spend the month of July here in Okinawa, Japan with Justin and me. And I am SO EXCITED!!

There are so many things that we want to do when he gets here!! Snorkeling, the aquarium, deep sea fishing, eating at the vending machine restaurants, sushi, exploring the castles, the battle grounds...the list goes on and on. I hope we can get it all in!

But first things first. Our first adventure will be the flights. Logan hasn't flown since he was little so that will be a "new" experience for him. We'll start off with a night in Slidell at our Grandparents (Yay!) and then the next day we'll head to New Orleans where the real fun begins! (for Logan i'm sure it will start out as fun...for me, not so much! lol But having him with me will make it tolerable!)

So we will fly from New Orleans to Los Angeles, California where we will stay the night because we will have to be back at the airport at 4:30am the next morning. Again, Logan will probably be so excited that he won't notice. Maybe his excitement will rub off on me. I HATE standing in those long international lines!! But I can remember when Justin and I went to Paris for the first time and when we came to Japan for the first time...they didn't seem nearly as long. :)

From Los Angeles we will go to San Francisco then on to Tokyo then finally to Okinawa only to do it all over again in reverse a month later. It will be quite a trip but totally worth it!

My trip back to the states will be a quick one, but I hope to see as many of my friends and family as I can. Things are amazing here, but that doesn't change how much I miss you guys!!! See you soon!! ;)

Random

BBQ Season

This weekend was spent beginning to get our patio ready for BBQ season (and hopefully the end of rainy season!!) We finally have some patio furniture and thanks to Justin we now have a fully put together grill ...

We even have a fountain and an umbrella that we purchased from the gift shop that I work at. It's like a huge version of those little umbrellas that they put in those fruity drinks that you get on the beach ;) Now I need some plants to kill. I mean nurture and love. I am actually growing two right now. I've had one for about two weeks and the other for about four days.

Hopefully it will stop raining long enough one day soon so that we can enjoy our patio!

The Barrel Restaurant

So you're driving along and you see this....a two story restaurant in the shape of a giagantic wine barrel. I ask you - How can you NOT stop and eat there?? Okay, so that isn't exactly how the story went. It was kinda like this .... Our friends Garrett and Melissa called one night and said, "Dude guess what we just saw out gate 2?? It was a two story restaurant shaped like a big huge wine barrel!! Wanna go??" And I was like, "What? I'm sorry...I didn't hear what you said, I was too busy getting in the car. I'm half way there already." It was kind of like that. ;)

Come on guys. Don't act like you didn't know I get excited over stupid things! Anyway, to sum it up it was cool. We literally ate in a barrel. And the food was awesome too. No really. When Logan gets here i'm up for round two of the barrel!