I'm 22 years old now, lol! Today i spent a low-key day at home with the husband! Slept in (like always), watched 'Law & Order: SVU", husband got home from work at 12:00pm (TGIF!) in one of my favorite uniforms (*wink*), i got an amazing present, husband made me some broccoli soup (fiy: i'm obsessed with broccoli), we watched 'Once Upon a Time'[...]
We bought our christmas tree a couple of weeks ago and it was finally time to put it up! After our non-traditional Thanksgiving we have been wanting to make up for it during Christmas time. While deciding where to put up our tree we came to the conclusion that it was finally time to re-arrange the furniture, since we had left them the same way the[...]
Last weekend we attended our first free concert brought to us by the military, in this case Navy Entertainment. Okinawa is definitely a different setting than your average military duty station, this tiny island has 14 U.S. military bases, from all four branches, Air Force, Marines, Navy and Army. Which means there is a constant exchange between th[...]
Thursday, November 14th was Gustavo's 23rd Birthday :) I was so excited to finally be able to go all out for his birthday! On November 12th we had birthday dinner with some friends at Yakiniku Goen which is a Korean BBQ restaurant, right by our base. They have All-You-Can-Eat and All-You-Can-Drink in an Hour options and let me tell you they were worth[...]
Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating the 237th Birthday of the Marine Corps with 12th Marine Regiment (husbands regiment of course) at The Palms in Camp Hansen, Okinawa. The Marine Corps was formed during the American Revolutionary War on November 10th, 1775 and every year since 1925 they have a Birthday Ball. It all starts with a traditio[...]
After being in Okinawa for almost 2 months we finally got our household goods delivered. The expected date was December 19th, so we were super excited when we heard they were delivering it this week :). We didn't have many things to call our own, because husband was in the US and i was living at home in PR, but nonetheless it feels good to finally have all[...]