We picked Ben up from school on Black Friday and headed down to the Sasebo train station and base to do a few things. We needed to get our train tickets for our trip on Sunday to Yokosuka!!!
The pictures below were all taken at the main train station in Sasebo.
Sasebo is famous for the "Sasebo Burger." It is their way of trying to be more American. It is basically a cheeseburger with everything on it as well as bacon and egg and maybe a few other things. I have had one and that was enough. The Sasebo burger though is everywhere! You can get them in a lot of restaurants as well as get little trinkets with the burger on them.
Sasebo has a type of mascot called the Sasebo top. It is a traditional craft famous in the area and you see them everywhere. I think that every so often they have a parade where the top is carried around and I think it is also the mascot of the local baseball team. Not sure about that but I'm sure I'll figure it out one of these days.
The next pictures are from the base.
When we got home that night I found a centipede by our front door. There were centipedes in Hawaii but I never had to deal with them. Here they are all over the place. Disgusting! Ben of course thought it was the greatest thing!
While we were putting up our tree over the weekend I pulled out this ornament. I just had to take a picture of it. I got this last year when I was pregnant. As you can see, we only thought one baby was on the way at the time. Such a weird thought now! I still can't believe that for 13 weeks I only thought I was carrying one baby and suddenly one day in January our whole world was rocked (in a great way!)
Awhile back I posted about nature v. nurture. Well here is another one. Ben came up to me with some sort of strange bug and was very proud of it. The next thing I know he is telling me to look and he has done his thing with it. Sorry poor bug...
Putting up our tree. We decided to leave our big tree in storage because we didn't know what kind of space we would have here. I miss the tree but am glad we did it, I don't know where we would have put it here. We purchased a four footer from the exchange. It is small but still pretty.
This was Saturday and on Sunday we were leaving for Yokosuka. Do you think I had a few things to take care of before we left...
I'm not sure if you can tell or not but Daddy dressed Piper. If you look really closely, her buttons are on the front. Poor Grant, I need to reteach him on dressing the babies.
The Japanese are famous for charms that they put on their cell phones, Nintendo DS's, backpacks, etc. These are a few I picked up at the train station. The first is the Sasebo top, the next is Hello Kitty with a baby on her back, and the third is the Sasebo burger.
Here is the Sasebo burger one. It says: "Hi, I'm Koma-Kun. I am very happy to meet you. I can have a good relation with you." Hmmmm
