This past weekend in Oki was amazing! The perfect way to end a perfect summer with great friends! Friday Shelby, Breanna, Kenzie and I went out to Gate Two Street and met up Maggie & Hailey. (Breanna and I's roommates from Ohio) We had fun just hanging out, dancing, and walking around. On Saturday we woke up and headed straight down to the beach! Made the mistake of not wearing sunscreen.. which was especially bad because the weekend before I wasn't out in the sun at all because of the typhoon. Yikes! Got burnt on the last weekend in Okinawa.. surprising! We hung out and relaxed all day at the beach house, then got ready early and headed to dinner at this place I have no idea what it's called. It was alright... Justin ordered a legit fish.. and it looked like it had just been caught out the ocean an hour earlier. My food was okay but Breanna, Shelby, and Kenzie hated theirs! Lol. After that we headed to the sea wall to a bar that Justin's friend owned. We hung out and met up with Justin's roommate Andy and his friend Pat! They are both super nice guys and we always have a lot of fun with them! We hung out and walked the sea wall going to different places to go dancing. At the end of the all 6 of us crammed into a tiny little Japanese cab..... lol. Surprisingly the cab driver let us all in. 2 in the front passenger seat.. and 4 in the back! It only went a few blocks then dropped us off at a corner with more cabs so we could go back to the beach house for the night. Me & Kenzie danced on the sea wall and were having a good time :) It was such a fun last night to spend with those girls!
On Sunday, we woke up and went and got coffee! Then, Justin let me drive his JAPANESE car off base! It was so exciting. I didn't go very far.. cause obviously it's unsafe.. but it's still cool to say that I drove on the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right side of the car! After that we headed back to the beach house, and decided we wanted to venture to the southern tip of the island and go to Peace Prayer Park since we hadn't been to any war memorials. It was super awesome and very scenic! There were lots of walls with Japanese names and American names on them.. and also lots of monuments. We couldn't read anything, but I'm sure if we could have the monuments would've been very meaningful! The park was huge.. and we literally walked a few miles to get to the other end of it.. when we got there we saw some stairs that headed very far down. Turns out it was actually over 1000 steps... and it headed straight down to the water! Exactly where we wanted to be! We were all excited.. there was tons of sea glass, shells, and rocks when we got down to the sand and it was amazing. Only problem was.... we were all exhausted with no water. Breanna was really dehydrated and it wasn't good at all. We jumped in the water to cool down a bit.. then I saw a couple bags sitting next to this rock. No one was around so I opened the bag trying to find some water. Boom! A giant water bottle. We were in luck! There was no way all of us would've made it to the top without something to drink. We found an easier way back to the top... instead of walking all those stairs again. We also found some vending machines and bought more water! It was a fun adventure. Then we stopped at McDonald's on the way home for some chicken nuggets! It was a really fun weekend!
Right now it is Monday of the last week of camp! I come home in 5 days! So crazy! It's a very bittersweet feeling.. but more bitter than sweet because I know I am going to miss a lot about Okinawa. The people, the kids, the culture, the scenery, the food....well, maybe only a little bit of the food! ;)
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