Time flies when you’re having fun. Over two weeks while Mika
was visiting her family in Okinawa it has been like a summer camp here. While our
two boys were still out of school for the holidays we all slept late, played
video games all day long while eating fast foods, microwave foods and assorted
junk foods as potato chips, candies and ice cream. Then Mika called saying she
was boarding the plane to come home. Party’s over.
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To be more honest, we did clean up the house and took care
of a few errands such as getting the boys a haircut. Which by the way their
hair grows means that I have a couple of months before they need another one. The
boys were looking fun for their mother coming home. I rented a car to pick her
up at Dulles Airport due to the fact that I didn’t want to use my car.
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To be more honest, we did clean up the house and took care
of a few errands such as getting the boys a haircut. Which by the way their
hair grows means that I have a couple of months before they need another one. The
boys were looking fun for their mother coming home. I rented a car to pick her
up at Dulles Airport due to the fact that I didn’t want to use my car.
The way the boys kept asking everyday on when Mommy was
coming home, I decided to take them out of school for the day so they could be
at the airport with me when she came home. We had a really great time. They
played with the Nintendo DS games while I listened to Classic Rock. We drank
and ate junk foods while the boys from time to time counted down the miles we
had to drive by monitoring the mile markers by the roadway.
Getting to Washington DC was easier this time. Still lots of
traffic but this time it was moving at a decent speed. The roadways are
amazing. While the roads were jam packed with cars and trucks, the toll roads
were nice and empty. And seeing that Washington DC area is technically in the
South, nobody really paid any attention to the speed limit signs.
Once at the airport, the boys had a field day. Free Wi-Fi so
they could use their DS’s and a front row seat to watch their mother come out
of customs. That is until an army of
other people waiting for their love ones started to stand along the walkway. It
looked like a Hollywood premiere with movie stars walking the red carpet as
fans loved them on. In this case it was more magical.
When Mika came out of customs I got the boys attention and
we quickly met up with her. Our youngest boy didn't waste time in wanting to
hug his mother. Didn't matter she was
holding two carry-ons while pulling her suitcase. But I grabbed the suitcase
while she held onto her son. Everyone around us just watched them hug as he
kept saying ‘I missed you mommy’. Over and over he kept saying this. Finally we
had to leave and so our five hour trip began.
One of the biggest things I learned while driving south of
95 highway through Richmond, Virginia was to stay in the far left lane. I came
upon an on-ramp where two lanes of traffic was merging into one lane as they
exited onto 95 highway and then took the very next exit off of 95 highway along
with other cars on 95 highway wanting to exit off that same ramp. Richmond,
Virginia is a NASCAR training ground for learning how to avoid accidents and crazy
drivers who do not know how to use turn signals when charging over two lanes of
traffic.
Two bathroom breaks, a traffic jam and a food stop later and
we were finally home again. Mika opened her suitcase and produced lots of
candies for the boys and me to eat. The next day we picked up the packages Mika
mailed to us more of her personnel belonging from Okinawa plus more Okinawan
foods and Go-Buster toys. I got a t-shirt
plus lots of pictures and video’s. But most importantly was that I got my wife
back.
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