For those of you who are following the blog and haven't heard yet, we have officially extended for another year in Okinawa so that we will now be moving back to the US in the summer of 2012!
There were many reasons for this decision but the main one is that it will make life easier for us.
No, here's the story... Back in January-ish we were told that we would be getting orders to go to Jacksonville, FL for Stevie to serve his next (and last!) year in the Navy. That was great, we were excited, but then this whole budget thing happened and the word on the street (and in official emails) was that no orders were being issued for moving to anyone in the Navy or Marines because there was no money to move people. How can an entire branch of the military run out of money to move its people is a whole other question... So Stevie got to thinking that if that were the case, we wouldn't be able to move until October-ish which is in the middle of the school year and he would then have to serve a year from the time we got to Jacksonville which would precipitate another mid-school year move the following year when he got out of the Navy. Plus it means two moves in two years. Plus we kind of like it here. So although we miss the US and especially seeing our family, extending our time in Okinawa just seemed like the logical thing to do.
The plus side is that you now have another year to plan a visit to Okinawa! We're still open for visitors and would highly encourage it. There's lots of things to see and do all year round and we could guarantee a good time!
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