In a tree... wasn't the plan but we had a great view!

Our weekend adventure took a couple of detours. Originally we had planned on going to Kokusai Dori street Sat night as there was an Eisa festival with 100s of Eisa daners, drummers and the typical Oki festivities. However its been rainy here lately. Really rainy and Sat morning was *gasp* actually sunny! We had to take advantage of it, especially because the sun was only supposed to be out in the morning. We got our swimming suits on and headed out. The plan was to find this park I'd driven past earlier that week and then hit the beach. An hour later and we hadn't found the park. For those of you who wonder why we couldn't find the park I had drive past just a couple days prior, the roads in Oki are rarely labeled. They have no pattern and rarely connect to other roads the way you think they will and they are typically narrow and easy to miss / confuse with other roads or even find again as many of them look like they could possibly be drive ways. Needless to say, we didn't find the park! Plan B... swimming. As we were in Naha, an area we aren't as familiar with the logical thing was to drive towards the ocean and find a beach. Which we did with a minor detour to look at motorcycles ;) Found a great beach, we were just about ready to swim when Pete noticed an island and a bridge leading to the island not far away and decided swimming there would be much better (The water was warmer or bluer, maybe?) So we set out again. Please refer to the above description of the Oki roads if you don't already know where this is going. That's right, an hourish later we were finally on this island which had a park (Yippee-sadly there was a baseball game going on so we weren't able to really play) but no decent swimming beaches, too corally. Back to plan A. Overall, it was nice to spend the morning together. Our adventures ended at the Naha Harbor Treehouse Restaurant. Not a real tree- just made to look like one.

Can you see us at the bottom of the picture? It was a cool building. I was sad they didn't do much with the inside of the building, they could have really made it look fabulous inside with lots of greenery. But it was fun. You took an elevator located at the back of the truck up to the restaurant.

Yep, mom. Posting pictures of food again ;) Pete's was Guydon or a bowl with veggies, meat and rice and was delicious. Lalee has Oyakodon which is a mount of seasoned rice topped with veggies and a curried chicken and covered with a sunny-side-up egg. Much better tasting then it looks ;)

Alex had a spam, tomato and goya pizza. Goya is an Okinawa veggie that looks a lot like a cucumber with lots and lots of bumps. It is considered on of their 'fountain of youth' foods. It has a very bitter taste to it. Alex like the pizza, after picking off a lot of the toppings ;) Next to it is a salad plate with the usual salad springs and a noodle salad that you commonly get with foods.
I made Beccas pic bigger as she got probably the most variety and ate the least! Her main dish was rice covered with egg. She also had fried shrimp, sausage and a mini hot dog, an assortment of fruit (Kiwi, passion fruit, mango and cherry) and potato chunks covered in a sauce that tasted like fry-sauce. This is their kids meal option, supposedly kid friendly. Not Becca's first choice!
During our 4 hour adventure we didn't do any of the things we set out to do (Eisa festival, swimming or find the park) but we did have a fun time and made memories. I guess that's what counts!