Coming soon this November...or later...Kadena AFB Okinawa Japan

So we have orders to move to Japan this coming November!  We are still waiting to learn all the details while we try knocking out as much as we can on our "to-do before ya move" checklist.  Mainly waiting on medical records to get sent over to the base for myself and getting them together for Graison and Sheyden.  Ontop of that, passports and learning what we have to do about the new baby's passport.  ALSO, if I am to be flown to Japan before having the baby or after.  We are thinking I will more than likely have to be staying in the US for giving birth and trying to plan for that.  It would mean I would have to stay with family and have the baby outside of Washington and without my main doctor because all of our stuff will be packed up and stored until they move it to Japan.  

Lots of stress and anxiety going on but I don't think we are feeling it, I think we are feeling more excited.  I believe this is something that is going to be good for our family and ontop of that it's a once in a lifetime experience that we don't have to pay tickets for a short time, instead we will be getting about 3+ years of experience in Japan.  Kadena is the air base on the Okinawa islands of Japan, there are other based but this is specifically Air Force.  We have been told that the weather stay anywhere from 50-90 degrees year round, and for Okinawa, the main worry is for Typhoons.  So this will be exciting to see what really goes on. 

Okinawa has the second largest aquarium in the world, and that is the first thing we want to do when we go there because Graison loves fish and he would be so excited to see all that they have.  He will get to see how big a shark is and learn about other fish like sting rays and all the tropical fish, including clown and lionhead fish.  On the base, we are surrounded by parks for Graison to play at.  There are a number of beaches to get to with beautiful crystal blue water, white sands. There's even a beach that has star or sunburst shaped sand that actually isn't sand but single cell organisms, basically they look like a bunch of tiny shells in star/sunburst shape. 

My thoughts on Japan right now are all so jumbled that I can't truly explain them to you until we know more.  They're basically just questions and mostly questions about the whole move process and especially my being pregnant and in the last month when they want us to move.  For now we don't know anything other than what we need to get done here and that's mostly Sheyden, and organizing things we don't need and bags to be packed. 

Here's some pics of what lies in our future! Including a picture if my great grandpa Noboru Sakahara....my sister really wants me to look up some Sakahara's but I think they originate from the mainland of Japan (Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka...) and not Okinawa, if I run into any I don't even know if they'd believe a blonde haired blue/green eyed girl being a Sakahara.