Hi everyone!

We finally arrived in Okinawa late last night after three days straight of traveling. Tuesday we arrived at the airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan early. As boarding time came around, the airline came over the loud speaker and told us that our flight was canceled due to the airplane having a broken engine. Thankfully we were able to get rebooked on another flight later that day to Seattle, where we had to catch the military plane to Japan the next morning.

When we got to Seattle, our bags arrived... except for Brandon's uniform bag - the most important/expensive bag, of course. Somehow his uniforms had been put on the wrong flight. Thankfully, however, the flight his uniforms were on was scheduled to Seattle also, just around midnight that night. So we waited around in the USO at the Seattle airport until midnight when we could pick up the uniform bag and head to check-in for our AMC flight.

Despite all the minor heart attacks we had, we finally checked-in to our flight! Then we waited around and slept (or tried to) until 7:30am, when our flight to Japan finally boarded. The AMC flight was about 10 hours until we landed at Yokota Air Force Base. We had a short layover there while the plane refueled until we got back on the same plane and continued another 1.5 hours to Iwakuni Air Base. After another short layover, we made the final 1.5 hour stretch to Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa!

When we finally arrived, we were greeted at the airport by our sponsors and a bunch of our friends, who took us to our hotel where we will stay for a week or so until we pick our house. So today, we are off to explore, get cell phones, and look at cars! We will keep you all posted as to more contact information for us. For now, if you have a skype account, send us your name so we can video chat sometime!

Love you all,

S+B

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