...1.18...Japan...day EIGHTEEN...

...today is our last full day in Japan...so I went for one last run on the sea wall...

...I'm really going to miss that...

...Subway veggie sub for lunch...with a Dr. Pepper...so you know I loved that...haha...

...and in the afternoon...Our Airman took us on a tour of his squadron...not a lot of photos were allowed...

...but I did snap one of his rescue gear...he said these hoist ropes weigh over 250 lbs...they use them for water rescue too so they are often wet...and it's a manual process to pull them back into the helicopter...as there is no room in the heli for a piece of equipment to do that...so that's a tough part of his job...

...we spent the rest of the day playing with the babes...this little one loves the dirt almost as much as her Dada did at her age...

...she also wants to swing on the big-girl swing...so you have to be pretty careful with her there...

...and this big girl is just an all around monkey...haha...

...Our Sweet Airman's Wife has a birthday next week...so we celebrated a little bit early...with cake and candles...

...and a few little pressies too...the babes were thrilled...especially with the cake...haha...

...and then back at the AirBnb...trying to explain where we're going and why it will be so long before we see them again...when Our Airman is tdy...they usually just tell the girls that Dada is at work...so we told them we have to go back to work...and it will be a long time before we see them again in person...goodbyes are really hard...and they don't even have a concept yet of what a long time is...sometimes a minute is a long time...haha...

...then we cleaned the AirBnb...and packed our bags...Our Airman is coming at 6 AM to take us to the airport...and Big Sissie will have her first day of preschool...

~Have a lovely day!