a visit home (or the next best thing!)

last Saturday was cub scout fun day for 4 different English speaking cub scout packs. and it was hosted by the Yokota Airforce base cub scouts which means, we got to go to the base!!! and it was better than I'd even imagined. it was like we were back in the United States! so nice we were trying to figure out how we could get Ryan to work for the government so we could always have base access.

Even though we weren't allowed to shop in any of the stores or do stuff...like a movie theater actually playing the real movies that are playing back home! and a really huge american grocery store!!! which was actually kind of like cruel torture to be able to stand in the door and look around and know that you can't buy anything. what I would have done for one box of cold cereal... we could eat in the food court. a real food court with all the regular restaurants. Burger King, Taco bell, Cinnabon, I could go on and on and on. it was heaven. we weren't really even hungry b/c they had fed us hot dogs and chips at the cub scout thing, but eat we did. a ton. and then we brought some home too! It was one of the best days we've had in a long time.

they made and raced their boats.

the firemen set up a smoke house where you're up on the second story and they fill it with fake smoke so you can't see anything and you have to feel your way out. Trent is standing in the door, going in and he LOVED it!

Ryan is giddy with joy eating his bean burrito with Taco Bell in the background. We panicked at first when we realized that we forgot to bring dollars. We only had yen with us. but luckily, Ryan had a credit card with him.

and there was even a Chili's! Did you hear me???? A CHILI'S!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy cow.