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!!

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!! ;)

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