Nov 2009

Hodge Podge

11.02.2009

We will kick this blog off with a few videos. This entry is not in a specific time line. Rather, it is a mixture of some pics and videos that I have been meaning to post. As some of you may know, Quinn is in Mississippi for a training until November 22. He will have been gone for a little over a month by the time he gets back. Since I have a little time on my hands I figured I would catch up on some of these pics.

This is a video from a Chinese lantern festival we went to in Yokohama. The dragon dances in front of all the shops that give it money. The bigger the donation the louder the music.

Quinn wanted me to take this picture for all of you motorcycle enthusiasts in the states. Here in Japan, scooters are the rides you want to pimp out. I can see a new reality tv show already.

Here is a pic of our friends at the lantern festival. Just wanted to add some faces to the names you all hear about. Heidi and Felix are standing next to me. They are married and their collective nickname is Helix. Rob is behind me and his wife Chelsea is to the right. Their collective nickname is Chob. I did not make up these nicknames. These are courtesy of our neighbors Julie and Kyle who I call Jyles or Kulie. I bet you can guess what our nickname is....Quisten. We obviously have a lot of time on our hands over here There is one other couple that you saw in the previous video and that is Candice and Drew (Drandice). That pretty much makes up the core group of people we spend most of our weekends with. There is also Steve who you will see later in Halloween pictures. His name is just Steve. There is no one else like Steve

This is kind of dark but it is a picture from when we went to the middle eastern restaurant with Japanese belly dancers.

In Japan, when you take your food home it is still called a doggy bag. Here is our doggy bag.

More beautiful flowers.

Halloween is a big thing here on the base. They let Americans sponsor about 5-10 Japanese kids onto the base for trick or treating. This picture was taken 2 hours before they are allowed to come in and already the line was getting long. I sponsored on two of our friends Ayumi and Stephen. She is Japanese and he is British. Quinn runs with Stephen sometimes. We just recently met them and they have been a lot of fun.

Onto the Halloween costumes. This is our neighbor/friend Matt and he was a hot dog vendor.

Candice was a jelly fish.

Felix was Dr. Oz and Mary was Stitch.

This is Chelsea and our friend who teaches Taiko drumming (I can't recall her name right now). They were Greek goddesses and had attended a Japanese costume parade earlier in the day.