Statue of Liberty Park

We went to the Statue of Liberty Park over the weekend. It is the largest Lady Liberty in Japan, only about 10 minutes away from us. It is on the same latitude as the real Statue of Liberty. There's a really nice park and playground and equipment for kids. Theres even a really long roller slide! If it didn't start raining we would have probably checked it out.

SKYPE

P.S. On the very bottom of this blog page shows recent pics added to my Flickr account. Also a link to see them all. I am trying to add all my pics to Flickr as backup. Only Flickr users can comment, but all can see. I can only add 5 pics a time to this blog, not as quick as I'd like. So this will help if you check out the other pics!



I'm sure most of you know what Skype is. If you download this to your computer you can call any other Skype user through the computer. If you have cam, you can view each other or not--whatever you chose.

For those that aren't computer savvy, (Like my dear M-O-M, and this other way is soo much easier!!) I found another way for Skype to work. I have a online number that is local to US that will ring directly to my computer in Japan!! No charge to you! Just whatever your cell or house plan is to call a MN area code, and will reach us in Japan! So, Berto and I were very excited about this obviously! We miss our family and would love to hear their voices!! Please remember the time difference though!!!

So far we have talked to:

1. Ana -1st prize :)
2. Lisa
3. M-O-M & Larry
4. Kellee
5. Berto's mami y papi
6. My Dad
7. Grandma Rachel & Grandpa Frank



You can also leave voicemail in case we don't answer!!

Since this blog is public, I won't post the number. I will try to send email to everyone. If I missed you, sorry, just send me an e-mail.

Dress blues

These pics are from this morning. It's a little after 7 am right now. My eyes shot open at 6 am, I don't know why!! Berto had to go in early because of a uniform inspection. Since I have pics of the other 2 uniforms, I thought I'd better take some of him in this one.

(I didn't take a full shot because he was wearing his house slippers.)

Lots of pics--new camera

JAMES, Tia Kiki misses you!!! We can link between laptop and new TV to watch our shows from online!! Great since we still don't have any channels!!


Field across the street is growing!!
Playing with the zoom function on camera.

Pachinko across street, zoomed from our bedroom.

Scarecrow!!
On the way to campsite.



Pachinko parlors EVERYWHERE!! Like literally every 5-10 minutes of us driving!!







The beach at our campsite


Aaliyah
In case it rained-we had perfect weather the whole time! When we were packing up it started to get foggy.


Kitchen tent
Bert and Donna

Geno and Bert

Geno, Miguel and Marjorie

This was the national park.

Drying out and selling seaweed.
Observation deck





Here you can see some of the 380 stairs down!!!


B-2, Geno, Miguel, Berto (B-3) and Bert.






Yakisoba and steak. Thought it was soo great to use chopsticks while camping!