Okinawa and the park

We got out of the house on a rare cool spring day with even daddy in tow. We made it to this park that has a three story roller slide the girls love. It also had a 5 story lookout tower to lookout across the island. So we got some great pictures of the girls enjoying time with their daddy and some great view pics of the island. There is another one I've added of a Japanese style toliet which you will see is a whole in the ground. They are seriously no fun! And....yes...it's the woman's toliet. :)

Praise God for great friends!

I have been so blessed with some really good friends on the island of Okinawa. Ones that even enjoy giving me breaks and hanging doing fun things with my girls. Here are so pics of the girls getting to go to an animal farm/zoo. The peacock is beautiful! And needless to say the girls love all the adventure and mommy loves the peace!

Anthony's learning to scuba dive!

So I can't say that I'm totally thrilled about this. In one way I'm so happy that he gets this experience, but my hysterical fear of being eaten in the ocean makes me a little skittish about this new adventure. Why wouldn't you try it though!? Okinawa is one of the top 10 world dive spots! The coral reefs here pale by some opinion the Great Barrier Reef in Australia! There are species that are here that are no where else. Yes, there are sharks too. But we won't talk about it! :)




I've researched a bit to find out that there are four species of sea turtles that make a huge journey to the China Sea and the Ryukyu Islands (The chain of islands that includes Okinawa). One of them is the Loggerhead sea turtle. Right now is the migration season, and they are making the trip to lay their eggs in the sand, which will hatch later this year. It's a pretty exciting time for the area. I say this because the scuba lessons have came for the reason Anthony has been invited on a long (two tank) dive on another island to see the migrating turtles. It will be an amazing experience. The girls are so happy they want daddy to bring home a picture of Nemo! When his trip is over and we download the pictures I will be posting them!

A good year of pictures!