Every year the Air Base puts on “American Day.” People come from all over Japan to attend American day. There are booths outside the base with food from many different states… Missouri of course was the funnel cake booth… we are so fat… there were hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries, tacos, brisket, all kinds of stuff. Then further into town the Japanese have their own booths too and a Parade runs in-between the two. It was rainy and a little cold but very much fun!
Derick, Kona and I went out at like 10 am when it first started and walked around… not everything was open so we looked around a little bit and decided to come back later in the day. But while we were there we got a little group of Japanese kids following kona… old people are scared of her and little kids think she is amazing. These kids were so cute I just had to take a picture with them. They had so much fun petting Kona. An old lady was watching and came up like she wanted to pet Kona but she was so scared to just stared for like 5 min. and finally she came up with the courage to touch Kona’s tail. It was really cute and hilarious.
So I decided it was too cold to look cute in my little jacket and umbrella (and its too hard to shove funnel cake in your mouth if one hand is holding an umbrella) so I changed into a hat and hoodie and we headed back out. First we went to the hanger on base that was showing the Japanese F2 and the American F16. This is us with the F2.
This is me and Derick in front of the F16.
This is over in the Japanese booths… notice the mini octopus (dipped in batter and fried up fresh for your order) right next to the chocolate covered bananas on a stick!
Derick bought me a miniature candy covered apple… I did not realize candy apples were hard… it was a slightly unpleasant surprise… but in the end it wasn’t all that bad!
At the local gym off base they had sports games like volleyball and tug of war for any adults and in this one room they had wheely things for kids… I thought it was awesome… Derick was not so impressed.
These are more pictures of the types of foods in the Japanese booths. They love to put things on sticks and so naturally they love corndogs
I am not really sure what all of this is but it smelled great!
It was a pretty nasty day but the turnout was great! There were so many people anyway. We had so much fun and ate lots of great Japanese and American food!
Derick, Kona and I went out at like 10 am when it first started and walked around… not everything was open so we looked around a little bit and decided to come back later in the day. But while we were there we got a little group of Japanese kids following kona… old people are scared of her and little kids think she is amazing. These kids were so cute I just had to take a picture with them. They had so much fun petting Kona. An old lady was watching and came up like she wanted to pet Kona but she was so scared to just stared for like 5 min. and finally she came up with the courage to touch Kona’s tail. It was really cute and hilarious.
So I decided it was too cold to look cute in my little jacket and umbrella (and its too hard to shove funnel cake in your mouth if one hand is holding an umbrella) so I changed into a hat and hoodie and we headed back out. First we went to the hanger on base that was showing the Japanese F2 and the American F16. This is us with the F2.
This is me and Derick in front of the F16.
This is over in the Japanese booths… notice the mini octopus (dipped in batter and fried up fresh for your order) right next to the chocolate covered bananas on a stick!
Derick bought me a miniature candy covered apple… I did not realize candy apples were hard… it was a slightly unpleasant surprise… but in the end it wasn’t all that bad!
At the local gym off base they had sports games like volleyball and tug of war for any adults and in this one room they had wheely things for kids… I thought it was awesome… Derick was not so impressed.
These are more pictures of the types of foods in the Japanese booths. They love to put things on sticks and so naturally they love corndogs
I am not really sure what all of this is but it smelled great!
It was a pretty nasty day but the turnout was great! There were so many people anyway. We had so much fun and ate lots of great Japanese and American food!
2 comments:
That looks like such an awesome time! I think I want to schedule my visit over American Day next year!
YES!!! It will be so much fun! You dont know how happy it would make me to show you around Japan!
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