We made it! Woohoo! After a few hour flight to Seattle and a 10 hour flight to Misawa, we’re here….and we’ve been here for a week already! I cannot believe it, the time has flown by. The girls were amazing on the flight. I had been so worried that we’d be those parents, with the whiny children…nope, they were awesome.
Our first week here in review :)
We were able to quickly get a house on base with temporary furniture
from FMO. I LOOOVE my house…Here are some highlights:
We’ve been on a tour to see Hachinohe’s Fish Market, Misawa’s
train station, a temple and a few other local things:
We couldn’t have made it around without a few welcoming
friends here (THANK YOOOOU!!!). Because of one amazing lady I got to experience
the 100Yen store. Ah-may-zing. It’s basically $1 store, but so much better. We
each have a pair of chopsticks and a case, thanks to the store and I’m getting
pretty darn good with them.
On Saturday we purchased a car for 575,297.42 Yen…..sounds
like a lot, huh, well it’s not and the dealer is paying for our car insurance
for a year :) We bought a white 2003 Mazda MPV with a little less than 50,000
miles on it. Being that most cars that were available to look at were models
from the late 90’s, I’ve decided that our 2003 is actually quite new for the
used cars around here. I’ve joined the Mommy Mini-Van club and I’m not going to
lie, I’m extremely excited about it. We took our test and received our Japan
licenses on Tuesday, so we’re ready to go, just waiting on our car. In Japan we
cannot drive it until we get something called a JCI done, similar to emissions
and registration. This should take a day or two to get done, so we’re looking
at picking it up today (Monday) or tomorrow.
Tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd, our internet/phone is
being set up…yay! Wednesday the 3rd our unaccompanied baggage is
being delivered. Ian gets the 3rd off for our “moving appointment”
and then the 4th through the 7th for the holiday weekend….5
day weekend? Yes, please!
The scenery is gorgeous here, I love it. I encourage
everyone to get their butts over here and visit us!
