Island Pictures

These pictures are from our first visit to Jusco (Japanese-style Walmart)... when we saw this "machine" I had to take a picture. Maybe this is why most Japanese women are so skinny!

So then Michael had to give it a go...
The next weekend we headed up North towards Nago and we wandered upon this beautiful beach. We weren't exactly sure where we were, but it was a great adventure! These were the steps that we first saw...

and then we walked a little further and this came into view... (the steps led down to the beach and resort area)

Here is where we were standing looking at all of this:

and to the other side of where we were, we found this little alcove:

I love these types of places!! There were little treaures everywhere...at one point it looked like the rocky areas were moving b/c there were so many little sand crabs! There was even a sea urchin that I could look at and analyze-- When we first got there, there was a local fisherman on the big rock casting into the ocean and by the time we were ready to leave he had lots of fish to take home. You may need to pull this picture up bigger to be able to see the crab...

This was the view we had from our hotel room on base...

These were taken down at the Beachwalk in American Village. Our sponsor, Doy (in the pic below), took us down there to look around. We ate at a sushi place that has the conveyor belt where you can pick whatever you want to try off the line and everything is priced by the plate colors! Afterwards the waitress comes and counts your plates to see how much you owe. This is also the same ferris wheel that we can see from our house!

There was even a small ampitheatre right by the walkway with a huge fountain at the top: