A while back I wrote about a fire we had on the FOB, here are the pictures to go with it.
This is why we have building codes in the states, in an attempt to avoid this.
as you can see from the firetruck, they've got all the high tech gadgets over here (I was shocked to see a fire truck at all, I expected a bucket brigade)
I'm sure it was the most exciting thing these guys had seen in some time.
Upon further inspection, I THOUGHT about writing about the fire we had here. It was a restaurant run by a local that had about a million electrical issues that finally caught up with it. I woke up at 0300 to a noise I couldn't quite place. At first, in my groggy state I thought it was an air raid siren. Then I realized there wasn't much threat from the Taliban Air Force. I laid there a while longer and finally realized it was an old school emergency vehicle siren. It made much more sense when I saw the old fire engine (note: I didn't take any of these pictures, I rolled over and went back to sleep knowing if anything was really happening someone would come and wake me up).
I was in luck and happened to go to the center while they had a panel exhibit about the wild orchids of Okinawa - finding them in the wild... which was less about how to find them and more about pictures of them in the wild. Which makes sense, wouldn't want every Tom Dick and Harry running up to these places and pulling them out to take home. It was nice though, there were explanations for the Japanese names.
Being a panel exhibit, it didn't photograph too well, which is sad because by this point Coryn was bored to tears, though Carter was asleep for most half of the center.
Here's the other half decent pic.
Then we found ourself in the observatory, the spiral looking building that any who haven't been yet assume is the center itself. Its not much though, the interior is a tribute to the people who study and film nature along with a display about growing orchids from seeds.
the view at the top is lovely of course. 
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