Everything's bigger in ... Okinawa?

Okay, so maybe it's supposed to be Texas, but I bet we have bigger snails!! Look at this monster that Justin and I found creeping in front of our front door the other night. I put my car keys down as a size reference. Can anyone say ESCARGOT? :P

Busy weekend!

This weekend was a very busy one. It started out on Saturday when I went paraGLIDING with my friend Morgan. She had won tickets for two and invited me to go. We thought we were going paraSAILING but we were wrong. I didn't know there was such a difference!! It was an awesome experience.



This is the "jet pack" that the instructor had on that took us up in the air. No boat. just a big fan!!

I think I look a tad bit nervous!!



On Sunday Justin and I finally got to have our deep sea fishing trip that we've been planning. We've talked about it several times, but just hadn't seemed to get the schedule to cooporate. So we set out for an 80 mile boat trip(Roundtrip) -- leaving the dock at 6:00am and not returning until after 8pm!! What a long day! About half way to the fishing point, I started to feel sick. REALLY sick! So I spent the first half of the day curled up in the fetal position on the floor of the boat. But once the dramamine kicked in, I felt fine. Note to self: take dramamine before anymore sea experiences!!

We only caught 9 fish between the 8 fishers that we had on the boat so it wasn't exactly a productive trip either, but it was still fun. Justin caught 3 of the 9 fish. :)

Ikea Island

Today, Logan and I decided to go exploring and head out to find Ikea Beach which is on an outlying island from the main island of Okinawa. There are several islands connected by bridges off to the ...East?? Oh, I have no idea if that's right. I have a one in four chance though, right?? :) Anyway...we found it. It turned out to be quite a nice little beach that even had glass bottom boat rides that you could book so OF COURSE we had to do that! Who could pass up that opportunity? It was really awesome. I enjoyed the boat ride just as much as getting to see the fish!

Sea Wall and Doctor Fish

Here are a couple of pictures from our trip into American Village for a quick trip to the "Doctor Fish" and down to the sea wall. What are Doctor Fish you ask? Well ... it's like nature's pedicure. Basically you pay to have these tiny fish eat the dead skin off your feet. Yup. Apparently it tickles ... :)

Playing in American Village

Logan and I went to Araha beach the other day and afterwards we went into American Village for some ice cream A & W style!!

And then decided to just explore a little. Here are our pictures with the giant Shisa dog that greets everyone out front.

and here is Logan being a goofball ... :)

Churaumi Aquarium

A couple of days ago Justin, Logan, and I took our first trip to the aquarium. It was quite an impressive aquarium...according to the internet, it's the world's second largest. Very amazing! We had an awesome time. Here are just a few of the TONS of pictures that I took

It was exhausting...

But we made it!! Logan and I are finally on the same continent again!! :) YAY!!