The local people do not really celebrate Christmas. While Christmas lights abound school is still in session Christmas day and everyone goes to work. New Years is a different story. Everybody celebrates, including Matt and me and all of our neighbors. Friends from our tower had a bonfire on Camp Courtney overlooking the ocean. We roasted marshmallows as the sun went down and the lights came on in the town across the bay. |
| Yep, this is the view from our base! |
When it grew too cold (relatively speaking, of course), we packed up our stuff and headed back to the tower. We threw on some more layers and met again on the roof of our building. You cannot see the ocean, but you have a panoramic view of the neighboring town, Uruma. We counted down to midnight, and watched five different firework shows off in the distance.
2013 was an awesome year! Matt and I moved from Virginia to North Carolina to Okinawa, and now 2014 is our time to get settled in one place for a while. But that doesn't mean our adventures will slow down!
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