Misawa, Day Two

We started our first night of lodging being kept up by a bunch of teenagers outside our room. Turns out, it was "our" teenagers. The Zama High School soccer teams were also in town to play against the Misawa teams. Adam was excited to see our buses - the same buses Zama uses to take people to Narita Airport.

After we woke up, we went to Outdoor Rec to rent a van. Misawa is much more country than Zama, so trains weren't really an option. Outdoor Rec is in a huge hangar, and they have set up a huge indoor rec facility (since Misawa is COLD for most of the year). They call it the Weasels' Den. Adam and Lottie are huge fans. They also made lots of new friends there.

After getting our van, we drove around the air base. This is were my dad used to work.

And we managed to find my parents' old house. They were on the top floor.

Of course, it's scheduled for demolition, so we were just in time!

Then we went off-post to try to find the off-post house they lived in for a few months before they got on-post housing. The street was still there, and barely paved. This is the house, but it's since been resided.

This is what the house originally looked like.

After some napping, we headed out to dinner with our old friend from college, Derek, who just moved here from Italy (he's in the Navy, but we like him anyway). Lottie LOVED him. We had a good time catching up.