Well it was my turn to finally make the adventurous 2.5 hour trip down to Yokosuka-Chuo to visit Josh and his friends! You may be asking yourself where in the heck is that...
Yokosuka is approximately an hour south of Tokyo and 25 minutes south of Yokohama. It houses the US NAVY base and is actually a quaint little area!
The weekend was lovely and so relaxed! I woke up early on Saturday morning and made the trek down. Josh had just moved into his new apartment after 96 days on the ship. He had a friend help him move a few things into his new place as I was on my way down. When I arrived we hung out for a bit before going onto base.
As an American living in the rice fields of Japan going to base is actually quite overwhelming. We walked down the street passing Japanese and all sorts of foreign shops and cafes. We walked over a bridge and before I knew it we were at the gates of base. I needed to get a visitor pass...a few hoops later we were on our way.
We hoped in a base cab and headed over to chili's. It was a delicious and overwhelming experience! We enjoyed a salad and fajitas and beautiful views of the ocean. We talked and had what seemed to be 5 refills and made a little list for things that Josh needed in his apartment.
We walked around base looking in stores, renting movies, and enjoying a people watching Starbucks date. It was really quite the experience to be on base as I have not seen anything THAT American since America itself. The military personnel are clearly very comfortable and potentially could never leave the base if they wanted to.
After a day of shopping for the apartment and enjoying the little America we went back to Josh's apartment. We were both pretty tired and were going to go out to eat until Josh joking proposed eating chili, salad, and honey bunches of oats for dinner. To his surprise I took him up on this little proposal, we popped open a bottle of wine, put on the ipod, lit a candle, and enjoyed our meal of chili, salad, and honey bunches of oats :) It was a fun night!
The next day we were going to go to the Officer's Brunch. Long story short we were unable to attend that brunch due to one of the girls (civilian) not being able to get a pass to go on base. Josh being the sweet guy that he is suggested we all just eat brunch off base :)
We walked towards the train station where there are several restaurants. We went to an Italian restaurant and ate salad, pizza, and tiramisu! We had fantastic views of the ocean as we were up high and after brunch we had another Starbucks date :)
The rest of the day was relaxing. We napped, ran a few errands, ate subway for dinner, and watched the modern day Romeo and Juliet. Then it was back to my Japanese life style in the rice fields of Japan :)
I had a great weekend in little America and can't wait for my next visit! :)
Yokosuka is approximately an hour south of Tokyo and 25 minutes south of Yokohama. It houses the US NAVY base and is actually a quaint little area!
The weekend was lovely and so relaxed! I woke up early on Saturday morning and made the trek down. Josh had just moved into his new apartment after 96 days on the ship. He had a friend help him move a few things into his new place as I was on my way down. When I arrived we hung out for a bit before going onto base.
As an American living in the rice fields of Japan going to base is actually quite overwhelming. We walked down the street passing Japanese and all sorts of foreign shops and cafes. We walked over a bridge and before I knew it we were at the gates of base. I needed to get a visitor pass...a few hoops later we were on our way.
We hoped in a base cab and headed over to chili's. It was a delicious and overwhelming experience! We enjoyed a salad and fajitas and beautiful views of the ocean. We talked and had what seemed to be 5 refills and made a little list for things that Josh needed in his apartment.
We walked around base looking in stores, renting movies, and enjoying a people watching Starbucks date. It was really quite the experience to be on base as I have not seen anything THAT American since America itself. The military personnel are clearly very comfortable and potentially could never leave the base if they wanted to.
After a day of shopping for the apartment and enjoying the little America we went back to Josh's apartment. We were both pretty tired and were going to go out to eat until Josh joking proposed eating chili, salad, and honey bunches of oats for dinner. To his surprise I took him up on this little proposal, we popped open a bottle of wine, put on the ipod, lit a candle, and enjoyed our meal of chili, salad, and honey bunches of oats :) It was a fun night!
The next day we were going to go to the Officer's Brunch. Long story short we were unable to attend that brunch due to one of the girls (civilian) not being able to get a pass to go on base. Josh being the sweet guy that he is suggested we all just eat brunch off base :)
We walked towards the train station where there are several restaurants. We went to an Italian restaurant and ate salad, pizza, and tiramisu! We had fantastic views of the ocean as we were up high and after brunch we had another Starbucks date :)
The rest of the day was relaxing. We napped, ran a few errands, ate subway for dinner, and watched the modern day Romeo and Juliet. Then it was back to my Japanese life style in the rice fields of Japan :)
I had a great weekend in little America and can't wait for my next visit! :)
After brunch I got everyone to strike a silly pose :) Josh seems to be the only "normal" pose of everyone =D
Nate and Delia
Jordan :)
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