Time is Moving Quickly!

I have officially been in Japan for a month!  And today marks only 2 months till my birthday.  Hard to believe how quickly time is going!  Last Thursday was a great day at camp, and today was also.

Friday was the 4th of July, so we didn't have camp.  However, we did work at a carnival on base.  We did a few hours of set up and decorating, followed by 4 hours of working at carnival games, then tear down right up until the fireworks started.  A few of us ran to get to a good spot to watch the fireworks.  Here's a picture of the fireworks:

Saturday morning we headed to Yokohama for a full day of sightseeing.  We started out visiting an interactive nature-y museum called Orbi.  Here's a few pictures from this stop:

After Orbi, we headed to the Raumen Museum for lunch.  The museum was pretty cool, and the food was alright.  Not super awesome, but not bad either!

After this stop, we started making our way to Yokohama Stadium, where we viewed a baseball game!  The Baystars, which is the home team, were defeated by the Tigers.  The game was fairly uneventful until the end of the 9th inning, where the Baystars hit what looked like a grand slam (which would have made them win), but it didn't go quite far enough and was caught to end the game.  Here's some pictures from the stadium:

After a full day on Saturday, we slept in (till 8:30!) on Sunday morning, then headed out for a little bit of shopping on Blue Street, which is the main street here in Yokosuka.  It is called Blue Street because some of the pebbles in the road are actually blue, which is pretty cool.  After this, we headed to Zushi beach for a day of relaxing and napping.  It was fairly cloudy, but the temperature was still comfortable and the beach was pretty crowded.

Last week I managed to run 3 different days, and started this week off strong by running for 20 minutes tonight.  My goal is to increase my time 1 minute each day (running on weekdays) until I get up to at least 30 minutes.  Hopefully this will help me to be better prepared to climb Mt. Fuji in less than 3 weeks!

There is a potential typhoon headed for Japan later this week, so please pray for safety for everyone here.  It's not supposed to be too bad here in Yokosuka, but sounds like it could be pretty damaging in other parts of Japan.  I will do my best to keep you updated on how things are looking/going.

More later!  Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers throughout this journey!
- Miss Moo (that is my camp name... our theme is onomatopoeias)