Day 1: Lost in Japan and Italian food???

First day in Japan, we finally found the guys and went out to dinner at a Japanese rendition of Italian restaurant. Not exactly Italian, but yummy. Jeffry defined it as gourmet chef boyardi. mmm, lol.

So, the story behind why we, "finally" found the guys. We arrive in Japan, get through customs and miss our DOD bus ride. We have no idea what we are doing other then we need to get to Yokosuka. We look around until we see a sign with a train on it. I approach the counter and say the name of the town we need to get to. Only problem being I was pronouncing the u and they had no idea what I was talking about. Laura and I are watching the signs as they run through Japanese, then four other languages and then English flashes, we had to wait for this cycle four times before we find the line that has tickets to Yokosuka. Laura approaches this time, thank goodness she actually knew how to pronounce the city. The lady behind the counter motions to us by pointing at a paper with the name of the town and 2100 yen written next to it. We nod our heads in agreement, pay the price, and head the direction she points us in. Even so, it took us about fifteen minutes of pausing in front of signs and wrong turns and stumbling through security gaurds trying to find one that knows some English before we figure out what train to board. We are on the train and we were told before coming that the train takes about an hour to get to Yokosuka, an hour passes, two hours pass, and we are concerned, but the map seems to be guiding us in the right direction. There is one other "white guy" on the train, so we start a conversation from across the car. Thank goodness he's a navy guy who's stationed in Yokosuka. Good, we are on the right train. We arrive in Yokosuka an hour later (3hours total) and he gratiously escorted us about a mile to the main gate of the base. Thank you Jesus for sending us this man:).

So, it turns out we took the train that stops at every stop as opposed to the express train, that only stops at the major cities. Hence, 3 hours instead of one. :) One adventure, one day and we survived:).