21 August
Wow, our first full day back on the island! Steve had a briefing this morning at 8:00 then he and Sharon came and picked me up for lunch at the Officer's Club. The buffet is still as yummy as before. :-) After lunch we went grocery shopping for a few things and quickly remembered how expensive groceries are over here -- OUCH!!!
Wednesday night we were met at the terminal by our son, Christopher, our daughter-in-law, Far, our friend, Kim, and our friend/sponsor, Sharon. It was awesome!! After finally getting out of the terminal and getting our room at the Shogun Inn, we went to dinner at Coco's and had curry -- YUM! We got back to the room about 10:45 and crashed.
Now we're back at the room after a day of running here and there, meeting Steve's big boss and getting a tour of some of the buildings. Now we're just waiting for the kids to get off work and come over; then we're heading over to BC Motors to look at cars.
August 22, 2008
Well we bought a car last night and it's way cool!! It's a '96 Toyota Crown and Steve calls it a pimp mobile. It's got an electric sunroof, GPS, TV (both in Japanese LOL), radio, CD player and the entire unit tilts out. It only has 70,000 kilometers on it (about 42,000 miles) and they gave us a really great deal on it since we're repeat customers. I'll take pictures after we pick it up next Thursday.
Today we had our Housing briefing and we should be able to get into a house almost immediately; we'll know more on Monday. This afternoon we're getting our new SOFA status ID cards and Tuesday we get our driver's licenses. Wednesday we have an all day newcomers briefing. We are most likely going to the Eisa (long a, s, short u like in sum) and Orion Beer Festival Sunday afternoon/evening and just chill on Sunday.
I'll download pictures as soon as I can. Right now the internet isn't working in our room, so I have to go to the lobby or to Christopher and Fair's to use the computer and it's a bit inconvenient to say the least. I hope everyone it doing good. We sure miss you guys!!!
Love,
Bernice & Steve :-)
Friday, August 22, 2008
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