Yesterday we decided to check out a part of the island we haven't been able to really explore, Naha City, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture. This modern city was once the commercial center of the Ryukyu Kingdom back in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Home to the restored and rebuilt Shuri Castle, the formal royal palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Read a[...]
While researching some blogpost ideas, i found The House that Lars Built's list of 50 blogpost ideas! I decided to write a post or maybe even a series about #50 "Share something that makes you happy, whether it's a photo, a song, a video". One of the things that makes me happy is live or studio videos from my favorite bands. I especially love when the singe[...]
Hello and welcome to Weekly Wishes!! an awesome link-up created by Melyssa from The Nectar Collective, as a way to breakdown our own goals/wishes for the week, as well as share positivity and motivation to others. I think the idea of creating some goals/wishes before the week begins is a great way to start fresh and with a focused mi[...]
Happy Monday! to all of you stateside and Happy Tuesday! to all of you on this side of the world ;) Last Saturday, we ventured on to Nago (my favorite city) to see a magical show of fireworks at the Summer Festival. Every year a large number of people show up for this summer festival featuring the largest firework display in Okinawa. The festival takes place[...]
I wrote this as a guest post for Jess over at Foreign Room. She wanted me to write a post as a spin off to her series East vs. West with Little City Adventures and feature my favorite lunch spot in Okinawa. If you're a long time reader then you've probably seen this little shop on the blog before, if not, then i present to you Cactus Eatrip.[...]
We have a big living room with large plain white walls and over the (ugly) air conditioner there was a nice square spot that needed a little something, something. While searching Pinterest for ways to give our living rooms some pops of colors i saw a some canvas covered with scrapbook paper as wall art and i decided this was something i wanted to[...]