I did tons of stuff while in Okinawa but i'll try to keep it short.
We commuited for 4 hours to get to the Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The flight was almost 3 hours long and it was the fastest airport that i have ever went through (the return was longer since we were arriving in Tokyo).
We were picked up by our rental service. New small cars are awesome, GPS are awesome too (even thou it was all in Japanese).
1st day: arrive in Naha, ate an early dinner (american steak), explore the city a bit, try looking for a beach nearby but Rebecca didn't want to ask the guest house people like i wanted....we eventually found on after driving for about 30 min and it was closed.
2nd day: woke up early and drove to Chatan to do Into Diving. I didn't dive too deep but we were near coral reefs so it was pretty. I started freaking out since we were kinda rushing things a bit...and i didn't know what the equipment was and the guy(american) didn't really do a good job explaining stuff to me -_-....but i might try again. oh and it was raining a bit but i was already wet from the ocean so it was ok.
(Rebecca went to the castle while i divied)
Had ok mexican for lunch, went to American Village. Explored Naha city, did some karaoke ^_^
3rd day: heard the rain while we slept in for a bit. Drove to the south eastern part of the island to explore sites and beaches....they have a Maribu Beach ^^
Went to the Ryukyu Glass Village in the southern part of the island and
we blew and made our own glass. ^_^Went to Chatan and had really good mexican food. I've been dying for carne asada that when i saw they had it i didn't even look at the price and it was really good...it was like $12-15, i don't really remember. After we did karaoke again ^^
4th day: We went on an ecotour, got lost trying to find the place (i wasn't drving) we were late about 30-40 min but they waited for us. They took us to explore the native mangroves and then they
invited us to lunch. After that we finally went canoeing in the ocean which was awesome. it was a small business run by a mother and her kids and a family friend. The family dog even tried to swim the ocean w/us. ^_^ The whole thing was supposed to be for 4 hrs but we ended staying for 7 hrs. They even started playing the Sanshin and i really wanted to buy one but they're a little pricie.we had Okinawa soba for dinner.
we finally began our souvnir shopping in Naha and we did karaoke again. it wasn't as fun as last time cuz Rebecca didn't want to go to Big Echo since the same worker was there. so we went to a little place where the mics didn't work well.
5th day: Went to Ryukyu Glasss village to pick up the glass we made, they came out good ^^
we then went to find some more beaches and at the last minute went on a glass bottom boat ride.
We then took the car back to the rental an hr earlier than planned cuz Rebecca wanted to be at the airport 1 hr before our flight (the airport is a 10 min drive from the rental place and they recommend people to check-in 30 min before the flight) and it turned out that the filght was delayed for an hour so we were stuck at the airport for 2 hrs -_-
i got home at 12 that night where Hideki jumped me and started purring like crazy. when i went into the living room and kitchen and saw the lovely mess he made for me.
I liked how i said i wanted to keep this short ^_^ oh well
pics of the mangroves and nature are to the right --->
i'll upload the other pics on photobucket
I WANT TO GO AGAIN!!!
