October 23, 2016

Mainland Japan trip begins…

I had every intention of blogging at the end of every day during our 2 week adventure packed trip to the Mainland but that obviously didn’t happen. We’ve been home for 1 week and I’m excited to write about our experiences on mainland Japan.
We headed out early on Wednesday the 28th to catch our flight. Kids were all so excited!
 
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In the air!
 
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This is the last picture ever taken of Arabella’s beloved Pineapple Park, pineapple. She left it on the plane. It was devastating.
 
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After arriving to the airport we needed to take a train to get us to Yokota Air Base. We had a few minutes and Aidan and Maya had 2 weeks worth of school work to keep up on so they got started. This was the first and last productive homework time they would have during our entire trip.
 
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On the train snuggles.
 
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After the train we caught a subway to take us the rest of the way. By this point the early morning traveling caught up to Eva.
 
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We finally made it. These pictures make it look so easy but the truth is that we were hauling one large suitcase, one medium suitcase, 2 rolling carry-ons, 2 boosters, 1 massive carseat, stroller and 4 kids with backpacks on and off of planes, trains and subways. It was no easy task but we did it! We were so grateful and relieved to find that Ryan had a friend at Yokota meet us with his van to take us to pick up our rental van. I guess Ryan is an ok guy after all Winking smile 
Here’s our ride for the next week and a half!
 
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First stop at this lovely base?
 
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The commissary for roadtrippin’ snacks! Btw, this commissary made me very jealous. The aisles were so wide and spacious!
 
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I didn’t take any pictures of TLF, where we stayed but we were slightly jealous that their TLF is bigger than our actual housing here, hahaha! We hit the hay that night and then loaded up the van for our big roadtripping adventure!

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