After 7 hours at the Seattle airport from midnight to 730am.....and a 10 hour flight, we arrived at Yokota Air Base in Japan! We took an hour shuttle ride to our new home base Atsugi! We travelled with 8 checked bags, 8 carry-one and two car seats!!
We arrived at our hotel room on base to some wonderful gifts and snacks from our squadron mates! They are all so thoughtful. Not to mention a stocked fridge and pantry to get us through a few days! We ran around base yesterday getting some important things off our to-do list done....and we got our Japanese iPhone! Very important!! We just selected a house to move into, but unfortunately the next avail will be the end of May so we will be in the hotel for 3-4 weeks.
The girls are loving the new environment! And excited because our new house will be two doors down from good friends with two girls 5 and 3, and other good friends nearby just steps away!!
The girls both start school right away! Abby will start tomorrow (which is Friday for us) and Maddy will start Monday next week! Very exciting......can you hear that???? It's the sound of FREEDOM and ALONE time!!!! Something we haven't had for four months!! Next week Mon-Fri is our intro to Japan class for Mike and I, so once that is done hopefully we will have purchased a car and can start exploring! So exciting!!
All the best. More to come often!!
