More pictures

Here are a few shots from our most recent camping trip here in Japan. Looks pretty much like camping in the States.


lily camping 


Our camp site 

This is a picture of our fire pit. Notice how the bundle of wood has not been separated, the guys spent about an hour trying to light this bundle of wood.


fire pit 

See the fire, that is not from our campsite.


fire 

Enough of the camping, actually I wish I had taken more photos, this was a lovely camping trip. We were having so much fun we forgot to snap pictures. On to Lily's birthday party. Daddy and Mandy felt Lily did not open her gifts quickly enough. Each time she opened a present she would want to play with the toy or book instead of immediately going on to the next present. So Daddy and Mandy were there to keep her on track.


birthday presents 


Daddy and Lily 


A Bob the Builder Tool box, Bob is our friend. 


There she is opening a gift 

Lily enjoyed her gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Corn-Free - birthday cake.


cake 


Mandy and Lily and the cake 

I know how jealous you all are reading this and looking at all my white walls. I know how much you wished you could live in military housing. That wraps up the birthday party, now on to the Disney photos. I have another roll of Disney photos, I just don't know where it is. You see the roll of film I thought was the Disney photos, that I took to be developed, happened to be a roll of film from February 2003, while we were moving from Italy to Japan and visiting our families in the States along the way. Maybe I will find the Disney photos in a couple of years? Until the here are the few photos I do have of our trip to Disney Sea in Tokyo.


With Mickey Mouse 


with Minnie Mouse 

Tokyo Disney Sea is very much like Disneyland with a European backdrop. It is not a water park. The rides are very similar, just a bit different. There are boat rides, like the Pirates of the Caribbean, that instead have a Middle Eastern Aladdin type theme. There are fast rides, like space mountain, with a Indiana Jones type theme. It was a blast and while Tokyo Disneyland which is right next door, was incredibly crowded Disney Sea was not at all crowded and we enjoyed the leisurely pace of the day.


Mandy 


Fountain 


Rest Stop on the way to Tokyo 


Rest Stop 


Lily wants to get out of her car seat right now, she is putting on her shoes and ready to go. 


Lily enjoying the ride to Tokyo 


Daddy enjoying the ride to Tokyo