New Okichan Theater


Brandon had July 5th off from work, so we decided to put our annual Aquarium pass to good use and drove up north for the day.

Brandon had July 5th off from work, so we decided to put our annual Aquarium pass to good use and drove up north for the day.
Okinawa has one major expressway, running from Nago to below Naha. We've heard all sorts of amazing stories about how it cuts down travel time and that it has practically mythical speed limit of *gasp* 80 KPH (to put that into perpective, that's only 49.7 mph.) The government is currently running an experiment and has made most of the expressway free for a limited time. We decided this would be the perfect opportunity to find out how it feels to drive over 60 KPH (37 mph), our normal top speed, for the first time since we've lived on the island.
Happy Independence Day, everyone! We celebrated at the Torii festival on Saturday. Huge, American-style hamburgers were on the menu for lunch. I made it through half of mine (about the same amount as a normal-sized hamburger would be) before deferring to my wonderful hubby.