An unexpected Sunday adventure

I meant to post this yesterday, I really did. But after working out for almost 2 hours straight, I fell asleep. I did NOT have the energy or focus to post another blog. I basically spent the rest of the night watching Tough Love and Daisy of Love on vh1 while Dustin made guacamole. Then I ate the guacamole and life was good once again.

So. Sunday. We drove to the airport to make sure we knew where it was because we tend to get lost 80% of the time around here. The drive was nice since the clouds decided to go away after being around for the last 3 days. We got to the airport fairly quickly and were happy to find that it was a pretty small one. Even though it's the only one on the island.

Then we were gunna go eat here:

But then we realized that we weren't really very hungry. We had eaten about 2 hours before that so it makes sense. Also, the menu was a little pricey for us. But we'll probably come back here cause it's a friggin tree house restaurant!! So, we got back in our car and Dustin suggested we go to Kokusai Street. I was all for it. Kokusai street is super tourist-y and fun. Anyone who visits has to go there. It's all cool stores and amazing restaurants and you will get a lot of exercise walking up and down it.

Here's a part of the street. It was actually closed off to cars that day for some reason. I think there may have been some festival going on that we didn't know about. There's always some sort of celebration going on on Okinawa.

We went into this one shop that sold all the purple sweet potato tasties and was also the factory. I love love love food factories. Even if I didn't like what they were making.

They're like little purple sweet potato pie dealys. I just don't like the crust. I have issues with bread type things.

Lots of free samples in places like this. Here I am tasting something purple. It was yummy. It also made me realize that I was starting to get hungry. So I grabbed some more samples and we headed out to find some food for us to eat.

But first we found this store.

It had tons of old school statues and toys. Mostly Betty Boop and Astro Boy for some reason.

Typical looking Okinawan gift store. They haven't gotten boring yet though!

Astro Boy in his manties.

Luckily, above the store was a restaurant. Hooray! And they had an English menu. Double hooray! They also had this kitty thingy. I liked it.

It was a little bitty restaurant but it was nice. That's the bar with some seaweed floating around in a tank. That's for eating. I see it everywhere too. It looks like strands of little green caviar but it's a weird type of seaweed. It's actually really good and tastes pretty salty. I like the popping effect. Dustin even tried it and didn't hate it too much! I was proud of him.

I happen to like lamps.

This is my meal. To the left I have seaweed with dipping sauce, and fried rice. In the middle there's some type of sashimi (I don't ask questions...I just eat), soy sauce and ginger. And to the right is a little cup of another kinda seaweed that looked like worms, peanut flavoured tofu (it's behind the bowl and it was icky), and my favourite dish here-Okinawan soba with pork ribs and a slice of fish cake. It was very very yummy. Dustin ordered some fried cheddar cheese in rice paper but that was it. He's weird. He ended up helping me eat my fried rice and caviar seaweed.

Here's my wormy seaweed. It was so slimy and gross looking that I had to get Dustin to take a picture.

Then I just slurped it down like noodles. It was very slimy but it tasted like vinegar so I dug it. I didn't finish it though. The sliminess got to me a tad.

Oh. My. Goodness. This dress is actually a wedding dress. It was in a store across from the restaurant and I almost started to cry. Wedding dresses here are not traditionally white so they have crazy fun with it and come up with masterpieces like this. I want this dress soooo bad! I would just wear it to the movies or something. *sigh* It's so lovely. I'm bringing the little catalog I found there to NY, if anyone would like to see some more crazy dresses.

I love this dress too even though it's white.

And Dustin likes Goya benches. Notice his pants? This is the day he wore sweat pants out in public. It was pretty awful.

Back downstairs.

Finally a sample Dustin likes. Taco rice! I love how cute and little it is!

Dustin concentrating on shoving it all into his mouth at once.

Pretty desserts that I wasn't allowed to get. But I knew I had to get my sugar somehow that day....

Hello pink bicycle car! People were riding in these all over the damn place. It was cute. And what's that in the distance??

That's right! McDonald's for Dustin. Ooooh, and a green tea and Oreo McFlurry for Tara!

Hello beautiful. It was very yum even though they only filled the cup half way. It was probably for the best. Besides, I worked extra hard at the gym that night.

McDonald's here are soooo clean and classy looking. I love these lamps too. I want them in my bedroom.

Dustin like sandwich!! Num num num.

And look! You can get sweet corn as a side instead of fries!

These small childrens put on a show for us! You can watch the video down below and I suggest that you do because they were very very good. The one to the left is giving that weird look towards Dustin because he was trying to show his appreciation by clapping for them. And staring at them. While I took their picture.

There were also some traditional Eisa dancers! You can watch them here:

Here's the lion dance with the children in the smaller costume:

And here's just some more antics that went on. Last video is of one of many buses that drove past playing happy music. I love living here. :)