Let's see, the last time I posted was on Tuesday morning. This is how the rest of that day went: babysitting & Lego Pirates, grocery shopping and dinner with Laura's family. It was really good fried chicken and mashed potatoes with broccoli. I love starchy vegetables so I was in heaven! Later that night we went to our new home and spent our first night.
Wednesday we had our home inspection and everything went well with that! Later on Laura came by and took us to the Commissary and to the Exchange on Kadena so that we could gather some of the necessary items to set up home. The first night we didn't have toilet paper so we used baby wipes. That was lucky! Rory and I were both pretty exhausted after this so we ate a light dinner and went to bed.
We slept in pretty late on Thursday and by the time I was out of bed and shuffling around the house, the delivery crew had arrived and was ready to bring in all our stuff. I hadn't even changed out of my pajamas when the first box came through the door. 78 items later they had left and we started unpacking. At this point we had both sets of our furniture and the government issued furniture that comes with the house/you can request if you don't have any. We had thought that our furniture wouldn't be there for at least another month so we received the government furniture before we got the email saying that our own furniture would be there two days later. Oops!
We couldn't move around much with everything all over the place so Rory played video games and I explored the 100 Yen store with Amanda, Gunner & Barrette. I found lots of fun goodies for our new home and some presents for birthdays coming up soon. They have everything you could think of there; anyone who visits will definitely be taking a trip there with me. I found tons of Hello Kitty brand items, from shower caps to stationary and chair feet covers. I bought some post cards with her on it. And candy, the Japanese make really good candy. By the time we got back to my place the boys were getting hungry and it was close to dinner time so we picked up Rory and went out for sushi at a new place called "Sushi Go Round". It's a lot like Sushi Land or Blue C Sushi in that you could pick daily specials up from a conveyer belt that encircled the restaurant, however it tasted much better and you can also order off a touch screen built into each both (and yes, we took our shoes off to eat dinner). Anything that we didn't eat off of the conveyer belt was delivered to us via a space shuttle shaped tray that operated on a magnetic track. In Japan, everything is an art form. I ordered rolls with the following on it: baby squid, crab with onion and mayonnaise, creamed corn salad, mystery goo and my personal favorite, inari. Mystery goo was the only one I didn't like, it had to be something between eggs and predigested fish foods; it was incredibly slimy and a yellow brown. I only got one of those suckers down. We also had cream puffs and pineapple for dessert! Rory ordered the california roll, tempura, calamari and shrimp. He wasn't in as much of an adventurous mood as I was. But I bet his stomach felt better than mine did. Haha! Amanda dropped us off as at our home and we went to bed shortly after a round of Skyrim battles.
I got up this morning to wipe down the government furniture and make pathways through the boxes. They weren't as early as the other movers so this time I was able to put on clothes, Skype with my sister and make breakfast before they showed up at 8am. They took most the furniture that they had brought, except a few pieces we asked to keep (end tables, entertainment center, desk and chair, extra book case and an elaborate display case for Legos.) So far we've set up the living room and office and most of the kitchen. The next few weeks will be organizing and going through boxes to clear out the clutter. I'll definitely be going through some of my clothes and finding new homes for some of my stuff. I heard before that in the Japanese farmers markets American clothes go for a pretty good price, may be I'll find someone who can bargain for me!
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