Wednesday, August 19, 2009

We are back!

Yes I am writing to you from Ayaka's house in Tokyo and it is Wednesday morning.
We returned from our five day trip at approx 11pm but I did not get to bed until 2am.
We simply had the most wonderful time and I am going to post a few blogs to fill you in on what we did so please bare with me, but there will be lots more to tell when I get home so this will be a little brief, but I have documented it all so that I will remember.
Friday morning Yukiyo awoke about 4am just to prepare breakfast for us. Yukiko is amazing what she does and I take my hat off to her. At 6.30am she drove us to the airport to catch our plane to the islands of Okinawa. We arrived at the main island named Okinawa, it was incredible how many people were destined for other places. Straight away we caught to solitary island which is named Ishigaka. A lot of land here is cultivated by market gardeners, the rest being pretty baron. Most of the population live by the sea. When we disembarked there was a bus waiting for us to take us to the termainal a whole 100 feet away. From there we boarded a people mover which took us to a rent a car office. Here we picked up a Toyota Vitz. Ayaka drove to an observation point about a hours drive away, but it tood her 40 minutes. The speed limit here is 40 or 50mph, needless to say she was a little speedster. We then drove onto our hotel. The hotel is spread out over a large area and is less than two years old. We were shown to our room which was on the 3rd floor overlooking the sea. The room is again very large with 2 three quarter beds and two comfortable lounge chairs and the view out the window is truly spectacular. The bathroom again is very swauve, with the bath & shower enclosed in class. We unloaded our bags and by the time the day was fast closing behind us. At 4pm we left the hotel and headed for Kabina Beach. This was a beautiful spot for a walk on the sand or to paddle your feet but instead we boarded a glass bottom boat and were taken out to see some of the most beautiful coral. I was a bit worried if the boat would pass safety regulations but even if it did not is was worth the trip. I actually drove to this destination but it was very hard to keep to 40kpm.
We then returned to our hotel and had a light dinner at Diego's restaurant. We then returned to our room and donned our bathers and Jimbi's and headed to the basement where there was a magnificent inside pool. The place also had an outside pool, childrens pool, jaccussi, hot stone sauna and public bath outside and inside. It was so relaxing and Ayaka and I were the only ones in the pool for some time. After we had showered we went to the convenience sore for and drink and icecream. We had a wonderful nights sleep but tomorrow is a very busy day and just wait till you hear what I am about to do tomorrow...

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