Da Wheels

A BIG thank you to Cindy for downloading our pictures onto a CD. I am so excited to finally share some of the pictures we've been accumulating since we got here. We still aren't in our house so it will be awhile before we can do it on our own computers.

First on the list of things to share about: our cars! We got them both from a guy here on base. It was pretty much a two-for-the-price of one deal. I was expecting cars to be expensive over here (like everything else) but we got two cars for about 3,500 US dollars. Sweet! The car pictured here is the Suzuki WagonR, which you see everywhere in Japan. Back home, I used to think- How does Suzuki stay in business? No one drives them! Well, business is booming over here. EVERYONE drives a Suzuki Wagon in Japan. The second car is a Suzuki too, but more of an SUV (think two door CRV with 4 WD) which we got for skiing in the winter. Poor thing, it sits most of the time since we usually only need one car, but we will need it more I'm sure when we move off base into our house. They are both older cars, but we love them all the same. All the American's on base tend to drive the older cars, since they aren't here for very long. It actually works out perfectly, becuase we don't have to worry to much about keeping them in nice condition. The narrow roads and driveways can be a bit tricky.