Back in Japan - at Children's Land!

After 6 months gone for Trevor and 2 months gone for Jenny and Katie, the family is back together in Japan. I have about two weeks off from work for "reconstitution" with my family, which is basically a fancy Air Force way of saying "Hey, re-introduce yourself to your wife and kids." Not that I'm complaining, because it means two weeks of free leave for me.

So one of the things we decided to do was take Katie to the "Children's Land" in the nearby city of Hachinohe. They have a bunch of fancy rides, and a small petting zoo, so we thought we would share some pictures of the rides and animals that we saw.





We stopped at the Merry-Go-Round first, and Katie INSISTED on riding the red horse with Mommy. Got a video of it below as well -



Then we checked out this elevated bicycle/car contraption that went around part of the park. What you can't tell (or maybe you can) is that these "cars" are designed for either a) midgets or b) Asians, of which I am neither. Thus, I was basically kneeing myself in the face every time I tried to pedal this thing. The Asian moms in the cars behind me were NOT amused, but Katie got a kick out of it.





Mocking my peace sign? Then you've obviously never taken pictures in Asia ...

Then we decided to check out the monkey house, goats, pigs, rabbits, and turtles - in other words, all the animals in the farm kingdom that are kid friendly and don't mind being poked and prodded ad nauseum.









Getting to hold the rabbit and then walk around with the giant turtle were definitely the highlights of Katie's day, but we decided to check out the Ferris Wheel before we left. Overall, not a bad Saturday morning!