When I was a kid I really loved the 4th of July. Next to Christmas it was my favorite holiday. Really, that hasn’t changed much since I’ve grown up, but depending on where you live in the US, you can’t set off your own fireworks, and that’s what my favorite part of the holiday is. Ok, grilling out, having my mom’s fruit salad, and being off work are all great too, but the fireworks are where it’s at. On base, you definitely can’t set off fireworks. Supposedly, if you’re in a public place off base you can set off as many as you’d like, but at your private residence it’s illegal. Weird huh? Anyway, they put on a big fireworks show here at the base to make up for it, but it’s just not as good as your own.
Instead of staying here with all the other family activities that will be going on tomorrow, Sharron and I are heading in to Tokyo tonight to stay at the New Sanno for 2 nights. Either tomorrow or Thursday we plan on going to Disney Sea. We’ve been wanting to see that park for awhile and since we went to Nikko over the weekend, we don’t need to go there over the 4th. :-) Our other day in Tokyo will either be at Tokyo Disney, or we’re just going to go on a big day trip to a bunch of the sights in and around the area. Sounds pretty fun to me!
Got to say goodbye to our friend Father Linsky last night. He was the Catholic priest on base here and even though neither myself nor Sharron is Catholic, we somehow became good friends with him. Of course, the last 4 months he’s been deployed, so it really sucks that he’s leaving so soon. That’s one of the hardest parts about being in the military, saying goodbye. The good news is that he’s going to be in Montgomery for the next year, so we’ll probably run in to him once or twice there. :-)
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