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Saturday, May 2, 2015

Friendship Festival

Today the Navy Base hosted an annual Friendship Festival--it opens its main gate to any/all Japanese local foot traffic! They anticipate thousands of guests for the day! It was one American family for every 20 Japanese families on base for the festivities. 

The Japanese were lined up for all the Hamburger stands, and we were lined up for the Japanese fare! 
Live band playing on stage all day!
Maddy chose a hamburger and Abby chose BBQ Pork on a stick
My favorite of the day--fried potato!! Highly recommend it! Better than fries!!
Also tasty--fried octopus balls
The flight line was also open to guests and each plane had reps on display and selling patches and videos on discs. We were stopped and asked for our photo by a Japanese couple. It's odd but everyone says you get used to it. 
Abby got to try on the helmet Mike wears when he flies
Maddy insisted on sitting in the helicopter
And our first hotel room cooked meal. I need to put my meal planning cap on.....with no oven or BBQ it makes it tough so I need to get creative with some one pot stovetop meals 

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Mike, Allison, Abby and Maddy Smith

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