Sunday, July 20, 2014

Iwakuni Here We Come!

We left Philadelphia on July 9th. We had to fly back to San Diego to catch our flights to Japan. Since we were PCSing from Miramar, our flights were booked out of San Diego. We tried to have them switched but the cost wasn't worth it. Fletcher got his first experience in a USO! And he's started to really reach for things and grasp things on purpose. He thinks he's big stuff trying to hold his own bottle :)




 We landed in San Diego around 10pm, which was really 1am eastern time. Our Japan flights didn't leave until the next morning, but The USO offered us a shuttle to the BOQ we were staying at for the night.  They weren't the most ideal accommodations, but we were only there long enough to shower and nap. 


The next morning, our adventure official began! We flew San Diego to LA, to Tokyo, to Hiroshima. Fletcher was Super Baby. He didn't make a single peep the entire trip. I was worried about being the parents with the screaming kid, but fortunately my kid likes his beauty sleep!




When we arrived in Hiroshima (I think it was around 9pm, two days later) our sponsor was waiting for us. If we had flown on the Patriot (military flight), we would have gone right into Iwakuni, but the Patriot must have been full because we were booked on commercial flights. Hiroshima is only an hour from Iwakuni though, so it wasn't a bad drive. The tolls in Japan are ridiculous. It's about $40 in tolls just to go the hour from Hiroshima to Iwakuni. Fortunately, if you rent a car from base, toll vouchers are included. When we finally arrived at our TLF, Jesse was swooped away to the O Club for his first round of initiation with the bats.  I wish I had taken more pictures on our first night, but I think I was too tired to think about it! 

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