Day 2

Well, I recind what I said about the kids adjusting to Okinawa time.  It was a long night when from 2:30 on Emmy and Cannon were convinced that it was time to get up.  Stevie and London thankfully slept well.  Mommy, not so much.
 
You would have laughed to see us all traipsing down the street at 6:50 AM, though, in search of finding coffee and breakfast! (See attached photo - note Steve's intense look for coffee!)  Seems like most Japanese stores and restaurants are not open at that time...  We had to revert to our American ego and go to Starbucks!  We will eat Japanese food today!!!!  (Dinner last night was a PB&J or cereal - it was all we had in the house and we were too tired to go out.)

My dad always spoke of the funny signs in Japan and already we have had some good laughs.  The Japanese use pictures to depict what warning signs are saying, I suppose for those not understanding the characters of their language.  So, say they want to warn you not to put your fingers in between the elevator doors as they close, they show a picture of a man with a crab hanging off of his finger superimposed with a big red circle with a line through it!  I unfortunately did not have my camera available to take a picture of it!
 
They also have signs that just call out for funny bi-lines because you have no idea what they mean.  Like these attached... Cannon thinks the family are wearing their pajamas on one side of the sign and their clothes on the other!  I tried to explain that the "pajamas" are kimono.

And then the trailer that adverstised "kids" and "used", hmmm...

 By the way, the Hamagawa Lodge is where we are staying.