Yes, that was London's description of eating octopus sushi. Which is actually a very good description of it. Stevie foiled my meatloaf dinner by bringing home a platter of sushi, sake and "sand cakes". Biddy was very enthusiastic and dug right into the stuff eating fish egg (didn't like that one too much), salmon, octopus and some other kind of fish sushi. Way to go Biddy! He wanted to try the sake, but didn't get away with that one! The sand cakes are some kind of dessert cake with what looks to be a cinnamon sugar topping, but the only word in English on the wrapper is sand. So we're calling them the sand cakes. Cannon and Emmy were not so adventurous and stuck with the meatloaf.
Today, Stevie and I took the driving test - a written test - and passed!!! We thought the kids were going to have to sit in the room with us while we took the test, but a Marine drill intructor and a Special Forces soldier volunteered to watch them for us while we went inside. Normally I would be a little nervous leaving my kids with strangers, but somehow I figured it was going to be ok. Emmy and London happily attacked the Special Forces guy with their rubber lizards unaware that the guy was trained to kill a man at least 10 different ways! Thankfully, he didn't opt to use those skills on the kids.
So now we're considered "professional drivers" by the Japanese government. With many, many warnings not to speed, hit any one, or drink and drive, they sent us off to drive on the opposite side of the road. I still haven't tried it, but Stevie took the helm right away and navigated us to the housing office. Unfortunately, we didn't have as good as luck there and were told that they are still working on our file... I am very nervous about this one thing as I know how important a home can be and some of the places on the bases look, well, worse than the projects.
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