Tonight

I know I have a little catching up to do, but I wanted to write about tonight since it is fresh in my mind and I have no pictures to share. It was a busy but beautiful day, odds and ends running this morning, cleaning the house up a bit, babysitting for 4 hours, and the deployed spouses dinner. As a treat I thought I'd take the kids and try to see the Ginowan fireworks from Sunabe seawall (um, sort of like looking across a bay?) We walked along the seawall for a bit, listening to the waves crash and observing Saturday night life in a popular section of town for moderate night life (restaurants open til 2, moderate drinking later in the evening, night divers, families out for walks). Had a passing conversation in Japanese about the fireworks and the time, had Coryn walk along the top of the seawall, and found ourselves a seat along it. While we waited for the show to start, we talked about stars, divers (its kind of funny watching lights below the water), blinking lights on buildings, and more. Then the fireworks started and it was a decent show; close enough that the kids were entranced, at least until the night divers started to exit the water. Carter tried to throw his binky in the water, and a nice American boy went and got it for us. There were a couple of times we thought the show was over and started to leave, the Japanese don't feel the need to have a constant barrage of blinking lights to keep the audience's attention. Then we had a nice conversation with the family the boy that helped us belonged to and we went on our way. All evenings should end this well!