Camp Zama to Yokota Air Base

We are now at Yokota Air Base (our home for the next 3 years)...Yay!!! Our last few days have been very productive. Here's the rundown...

Driving to Yokota Air Base

Here are those tiny 2-way roads that I was telling you about. There are no lines down the middle of the road because it is too narrow to divide it in half. Notice how all the cars are driving on the shoulder of the road. I'm not a big fan of driving in this yet...especially while sitting on the opposite side of the car!

The Housing Office

Our driver took us straight to the Housing Office so that we could finally work on finding a home. Here are the kids waiting while dad went in and did all the dirty work.

Miss Tia and her 3 loves of her life: her binkie, blankie, & giraffe. The binkie is going as soon as we get settled!

While waiting for dad to come out of the housing office Jayden asked me to take these pictures! Can you tell he was bored?

*WE FOUND HOUSING*

We are really excited!!! We got the exact town home that we wanted! It has 3 bedrooms and is already renovated. Yokota is currently in the process of renovating all their homes. We will be able to move in on August 10th (there's still a family in it right now that's moving next week). So, hopefully we'll have pictures in a few weeks.

Our Luggage

Here it is! This is what Shane & I lugged from St. George to Yokota. Since arriving in Japan we have had to drag this through customs at the airport(in 3 different carts), across the terminal, from one bus to another bus, up 3 flights of stairs, from our 1st temporary apartment to our 2nd temporary apartment, down 3 flights of stairs, into a van, and up an elevator to our 3rd temporary apartment. And we still have 1 more move left. We learned our lesson...we will DEFINITELY pack lighter next time!!! Don't you love how our two kids are still buckled into their car seats? It was the safest way to unload without them running wild:)

Our 3rd Temporary Housing The Kitchen/Front Room

The "family" bedroom. We all share this room. Tia's in the crib, & Jayden's in the bed until it's time for us to go to bed...then he is moved to the couch in the front room.

Jayden on his pull-out in the front room.

It's been great, but hopefully this is our final TEMPORARY housing.

Just Having Fun

It's rainy season right now so the kids haven't been able to play outside much, but today there was SUNSHINE--for a little while! We went to this awesome park and the kids had a blast! They still ended up soaking wet, because every tunnel had puddles of water in it. They loved it though!

An awesome spider web jungle gym.

As Jayden was swinging on this and giggling he said... "Mom, this thing is PERFECT for me." He absolutely loved it!

Another Fun Park

The kids love the parks on base. They are huge and there are tons of them. Here's a slide at the one we found today. It was so fun that we went twice today and Shane & I had to go down it a couple of times. It's just like a conveyor belt.

Shane's New Car Yay...we have a car! It's a 1995 Honda Civic with only 35,000 miles on it. These older cars are still in great shape because the Japanese take really good care of their cars. It's perfect for Shane to drive to work and back for the next 3 years. And it was EXTREMELY inexpensive-I wish we could buy cars for this cheap in the states!

We had to leave both our cars in the states--sad:(! But, everyone that is stationed here just buys really cheap cars to get around with for 3 years. Now we just need to find a mini-van for the kids & I.