First off, I apologize profusely as this second part has been a long...long...LONG time coming. The week after I last posted, I started getting rather busy, preparing for my friend Josh to come visit us here in Japan. Then his plane landed and so I've been out of commission for this entire week as well ( Read more... )

When we arrived at my dad's house, we instantly hooked into the internet. My mom's house has been internet challenged for my entire life as no one wants to pay for an expensive cable line to run down our street. Because of this, we'd had dial-up until I went to college which is when my mother got a wireless card that picks up some internet off of ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm finally getting caught up on the blogging...I think ( Read more... )

This past Monday, Kevin had the day off so we decided to visit the Enoshima Aquarium, another aquarium not too far from here. The English version of their website was just a .pdf map of the place and how to get there. It looked pretty nice and seemed like it wouldn't take us that long to get there. 41 minutes on the train and 510yen didn't seem bad ( Read more... )

I celebrated the birth of our nation in the only way possible this year by celebrating it in a foreign country! Erm, yes. The main Yokosuka base had a lot of food booths, music, t-shirt cannons, discounted bowling and fireworks. I'm glad that there was something going on because if I missed fireworks this year, it would probably be the first time I ( Read more... )