It officiall we are having...

We had our ultrasound today and it's officially we a having a BOY! We are so excited! We then realized we have no boy things since we have 2 girls but thats okay, it 'll all work out! I told my Oldest sister and she was excited an new reason to go shopping! We leave from Japan on the 15th so we'll be home in CA very soon!

Our trip to Tokyo

We decided to a trip to Tokyo.I had some leave built up that I needed to use and it just had so happen that the New Sano Hotel was having a special offer on there rooms 50% off. All the cards were in place! So we packed up and set off off for Tokyo to stay a night and a day!

Victoria waving good bye to Yokosuka with her sock (got to be comfy for an 1 1/2 to 2 hr drive)

Bella finally facing forward for the first time!

Such a big girl!

Here's a shot of Yokosuka (where we live)

We are going to be totally tourist on this trip so enjoy the landscape pictures!

Yokohoma Bay Bridge (my favorite bridge, reminds me of a homey feeling being that Yokohoma was my first duty station)

Did I mention this is my favorite bridge

Landmark tower and Queens towers (MM21) in Yokohoma

A neat looking bridge

Haneda Airport, cool Architectural sculpture

Coming into Tokyo on the right you'll see one of the largest farris wheel in Japan

The rainbow bridge, at night they illuminate it with rainbow colors

A very cool architecturally designed building

Twin tower look-a- like buildings (I'm sure they are really not but looked like it to me)

Tokyo skyline

You can see a pyramid looking building

Well we thought we were almost there- then traffic

;( Stuck behind a DUCK TRUCK

Neat looking Visa billboard

More neat buildings

They must like this slope design

It's just not Tokyo with out the sky scrapers

Only in Japan, a Crane on top of the building! How do they do that?

Japans version of the Eiffel tower - TOKYO TOWER!

Taller then the Eiffel Tower due to an extra long Athena at the top. That's actually used as a radio tower.

I don't know who King Jim is but it look cool!

It just not Christmas in Japan with the saying HAPPY CHRISTMAS!


Well we finally made it to the hotel-got to our room where Victoria was ecstatic about the special bed!

Soo soft!

The best kind for jumping on!

The view out our window (you can see angle Moroni on the Tokyo temple. Click on the picture. it looks kinda gold-ish the whole spire! just the right lighting I guess)

Well we tried to get out the room before night fall but did not succeed. So we strolled around in the park for just a bit and fed some ducks.

Then went for a stroll around the block and took in some sights, We headed back to the hotel for dinner and got ready for day 2 of our trip in Tokyo!

Our Trip to Tokyo- Day 2

So we woke up delt with fussy kiddos, got breakfast got on the bus and made it down to the Childrens museum or Childrens hall. It was pretty neat they had 5 floor of activies for all ages of children. On the first floor they had this Oragmi display where you could look in a tube and see all kinds of oragmi. One was like a whole bunch of Santas another was like a whole bunch of frogs. Really neat sorry no pics. We were still tring to get a feel for the place it seemed for a while that we were the only ones there.

So we headed to the 3rd floor where there was suppose to a human body exhibit and life on the farm exhibit.

This is the human body exhibit. It was like a little playground. Neat but I was thinking of something a little diffrent. Still cool none the less!








Here is the life on the farm exhibit. When we exploredit we out it's it life on a rice farm in the old days. No animals.


Victoria trying to pick up what she called "the camp fire"

You can see in the background a little history digram with pictures. This place was neat because they had kimonos to dress up in but Victoria was too activly on the move to play dress up. Shes no fun sometimes!
Here is the 4th floor, their music studio. A little video of the kiddos at the drums!

After our little concert we headed to the 2 and floor where they had an athletics coner.

Here is victoria running around to her hearts content!

Here is a nice shot of the jungle gym shes running around on. It was pretty nice, made of wood.

Bella had found a nice little plastic slide and of course Victoria could not let her have all the fun by herself and joined in!

Dolls of all sizes were also in this neat litttle place

This was a fun activity. It was fishing with a maganet for fishes attached to paper clips! Both girls rally enjoyed it!

Well after all this fun it was time for lunch and a nap. Too bad we didn't have more time to spend in Tokyo, but we had a good time and we can actually say we were there!