Charlie returned home Sunday from his disaster of living in Korea for two weeks. He came home with that nasty staph infection but at least it was healing and didn't require any more visits to the hospital. But I woke up that morning with a blocked tear duct. I looked like I had been in a bar fight. It stayed like that for a few days. Beautiful. Monday morning consisted of making appointments for our upcoming move and turning in paperwork from Charlie's trip. We received a phone call from our good friends who had already spent one night at Okuma. They said the winds were strong and camping was miserable. Not what we wanted to hear. So we called off the camping trip but was determined to make the week fun for us and the kids anyway. Rain was in the forcast for the whole week, ugh.
The next day we decided to JCI my van (not on my top 10 list of things I enjoy). It failed the inspection with a burnt out head light, a torn brake hose and a possible oil leak. Oil leak? Really? I just spent I don't know how much on repairing an oil leak 6 months ago. So we had to get a rental car and put my van in the shop. Again, not what I wanted to do on our vacation.
The next day I called the repair shop and my van was fixed and ready to go (They didn't bother calling me about an estimate or to tell me it was ready. They got an ear full.). Thankfully, there was no oil leak. It was just residual from the last leak I had repaired. And finally, it passed JCI which I'm very happy about because now I can sell it for a good price.
The kids didn't do much of anything this week but play on the computer and watch movies. The rain came in and poured. We had all three of them come running in our room because they were awoken by a thunderstorm (Okinawa rarely receives thunder and lightning, weird, and Germany hardly ever got a thunderstorm too). So I think the girls have only experienced about a handful of times that they had heard thunder or had seen lightning. It could be scary if you had never seen it in your life.
But we did manage to take the kids to Round 1. It's 7 floors of play. They have it all, a skating rink, free arcades, bull ride, batting cage, soccer field, basketball court, archery, golf range, bowling, massage chairs, I could go on and on. It does cost a hefty price though. For the five of us, it was $100 for 3 hours. We all had a blast and were wiped by the end of it. I'll post pictures of it next time.
So the week is almost over. I ended up going to the hospital last night because I got an infection (probably some nasty stuff Charlie brought back with him from Korea). I'm fine, no need to worry about me. Kiera's birthday party is tomorrow. I totally feel like I'm not ready. We have gotten so much done this week that I haven't given her birthday much thought. At least I set up her party weeks ago.
