Ramblings of a Mexican Meshuggener: Last days in Okinawa

Tonight is our last night in Okinawa. It has been such a wonderful vacation and I'm sad to leave but Ill be so happy to see my husband!!! Jose Ive missed you so much! And to everyone else, please excuse my lack of correct characters as I am using a Japanese keyboard.

Even though I wanted to take part in the worlds biggest game of tug of war we were unable to due to the traffic and our schedule. We did however drive by the site the day before and I got to see the ginormous ropes to be used in the game.

We arrived in Onna Village Sunday afternoon. Above you can see the rooftop and view of our 3rd floor room. It was so nice to stay in such a beautiful room as this one. Dispite the visual violations by the quas-nudists we were sharing our room with it was a wonderful stay, and it was right across the street from the wedding.

Tatami Room

Living Room

ASKA MATSUDO & TOMAS PLUSKAL WEDDING!

The invitations clearing stated that photography was prohibited but we were given permission to click away when the cake came out. Aska was beautiful in her Kimono and Tomas was...shall we say, traditional in his...umm...whatever you call traditional Czech clothing.

1200 yen worth of coffee the next morning. Sheesh!!

We headed back from Onna Village to Naha on Monday morning, on the wrong side of the road. Glad I wasn't driving, I made my mom do all of it. We killed some time at the DHS mall where Nana and Papasan were picking us up and we found the Tokyo Lash Bar!!!!! Myself, my mom, Santina and Lori (former co-worker) were supposed to go to this place in the pearl district to get our eyelashes done and they went out of business...and now we found one...in Okinawa!! They have really cool false lashes made out of spotted feathers or feathers from peacocks.

This is our last supper in Okinawa. Mamasan made quite the spread and we convinced the family to visit Oregon next year. My mom and I tried to make Ceviche (as Papasan stated over and over again that he wanted) and we did our best with the ingredients we could find. Shrimp, lemon, red onion, Thai peppers, cucumber, avocado, cilantro and persimmon with a dash of Tabasco sauce...it was actually really good.