I have been meaning to update but things have just been hella crazy. Let's see what has happened in the last 10 days. Our house fell through, Tuesday afternoon. The owners pulled out after a week of us wasting time because we HAD a house. So on Tuesday we find out but the agencies are all closed on Wed. Thursday we saw some places, we honestly did not like any of them. We were however going to take one because dammit we need a home. Well I was walking out the door to check out the area around the house on Friday and I got a call from one of our agents, Tsuda-san who was the agent on the house we lost and we really like him. He had a place for us it is brand new, meets our quaifications and the owners are ready for us and the dogs to move in. They sound like they have none of the hangups the previous owners did. Now I just have to like the house, well hubbs has duty so off I go. Love it, it is perfect, sign hubbs name on the dotted line and now I wait again. That was Thursday, the housing office is closed until Wednesday morning so I still have the contract and hope it all works out. I feel better about it this time.
Saturday we went out to the house to check out more of the area and so hubbs could at least see that. It is great, there is a grocery and lots of shops, a produce store in the house across the street. The train is less than a mile away and the bus is just down the street. We need to figure out the bus. The trains are easy though so we think the bus will be too and the housing agent thinks it is a straight shot.
So today is Christmas and hubbs has duty so yesterday we went to Tokyo to celebrate Christmas eve. In all honesty we are both beyond Christmas at this point and it just keeps getting in the way. The base is shut down for 4 days (where we cant do anything) and the country will shut down between the 26th and 29th and remain that way until the 3rd (so if we can et the house nothing can be delivered). So yeah that sucks. On top of the fact that the lack of people to process paperwork means the Navy currently owes us ALOT of money, we think we are pushing $2k at the moment if not more, that does not include all of the housing money we need to round up. Thankfully we are doing well so when the money comes in and the hotel is paid, we should have a nice chunk of change.
Ok now for Tokyo. We went to Tokyo via the train. We saw Akihabara, Ginza and Roppongi Hills. It was all packed and not my style at all, just too many people but it was cool at the same time. Personally I think I need me one of the $5000 massage chairs, Sharper Image aint got nothing on these babies.
First we hit Akihabara, Fry's aint got nothing on this place. It is the Geeks heaven. There was lots of anime stuff and enough electronics to make your head spin. It was pretty cool but with no money to spend and everything being so expensive, nothing totally peaked my interest. I do have to say the household appliances are pretty crazy cool though.
This is Akihabara see the sea of people down the street, by the bridge? The road was closed and it was wall to wall people.
We also saw this awesome BumbleBee from Transformers.After awhile we wandered off to Ginza which is the fancy part of Tokyo. We hit the Sony Gallery and saw lots of top name stores. My favorite was Coach because it reminded me of my cousins :)
Christmas is very big here but more like Valentine's day, or so I have been told. There were decorations everywhere. Here are some pics hubbs took. Even the Japanese were picture crazy. 
oh yeah and if you want a moosehead to hang on your wall but dont want the dirty job of obtaining a real one, just buy this realistic plush one.
From Ginza we went on to Roppongi hills in search of food since a 1200 yen bowl of ramen is a little out of our league. It was like a super mall on crack and the lights were gorgeous. My favorite was the Banana Republic Christmas trees, it had BR ornaments all over it, oh yeah commercialism at its best.
Here are some more pictures :D Unfortunately none of the ones of Tokyo Tower came out.
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