Maya's Adventures!!

This year for Golden Week (the wonderful week when 4 national holidays fall within 5 days of eachother), Taro and I took a trip to Okinawa, the southern most island of Japan.

It was Taro's first time, and my second (I went a few years back with Yoko and Hiroe.) This time was quite different from the last though, as Taro and I decided to rent a motorcycle and bike around the island.


It was incredibly fun! We arrived on Fri eve, and just went out for a nice dinner of Okinawan food (delicious). Sat morning, we headed to the shop to pickup the motorcycle. We hpped on and headed for our pension up north (along the beach) and of course stopping to eat along the way....at A&W! They don't have these on the main island, so I was ecstatic to eat curly fries and drink rootbeer


Our hotel was right along the beautiful beach. We headed straight for the ocean once we arrived. I forgot how great it is to spend the days in a swimsuit and flip flops. I certainly don't get to spend my summers like that in Tokyo and it was definately a welcome change. However, since we rode the motorcycle with our flipflops on, we both got awesome flip flop tans on our feet...

We spent the entire vacation with days at the beach or on the motorcycle, and nights at Okinawan restaurants. While biking, we'd stop at random places for ice cream and treats. This is in the middle of no-where, but we found some delicious ice cream at the grocery store


One evening, we went to a famous pizza restaurant. The pizza wasn't that great...but the view was spectacular!

It was about an hour wait, but since we could sit outside and enjoy the view while we waited it was no hassle at all. The incredible part of this restaurant, is they have a huge variety of drinks (guava juice, mango juice, etc.) but the only food on the menu is salad and pizza (small or large). Nope. no variety of pizza either. Thank goodness it wasn't mushroom pizza, or I would've been quite bummed.

Anyway, the trip was absolutely incredible. Since I hadn't gone on vaca in a long while, I was reminded of how fun traveling is. Now....where do I go next. Perhaps, Seoul?

Oh, and this is what we looked like during the vaca