Our Adventures in Atsugi Japan

So here it is November 30, 2017 less than a week until we set on our journey to NAF Atsugi!! I have so many thoughts and feelings going through me and it is driving me insane. It also does not help that we are staying at my mother inlaws in Indiana until we fly out on on Dec 4. Both me and my husband cannot seem to get a full night's sleep this week. We are both tossing and turning but I guess this is our preparation for a long flight full of no sleep. We fly out of Indianapolis on Dec 4th at 8:00 am which is about 2 hours from our current location in northern Indiana and of course we have to be there 2 hours prior so what time do we have to get up LOL about midnight knowing me because I always feel I will forget something. Once we leave Indiana we will have a layover in Dallas/Ft Worth and then land in Seattle Wa. at about 12:30 their time which gives us almost a full day in Seattle. Then we lease Seattle on Dec 5th and arrive in Japan on Dec 6th at about noon their time. This i...

As soon as we got our orders to  NAF Atsugi  my mind was going wild with imagination; I did not know what to do first or even what to do last this was all so new to me. I mean the only place we had been were in Norfolk Va and New Orlean La. I had never been out of the country and Japan was definitely not on my radar. So I did what I think any of us would do and took to google. I googled the base, the location and of course the housing. Housing was a hard one, I found the housing page easy enough but when it came to the floor plans and photos those were not as easy to come by like New Orleans or Norfolk . The housing in Japan is not government contracted like here in the states so there was no Lincoln Military housing web page or anything similar it was a page maintained by what I can assume is the Navy (corect me if I am wrong). There is a wealth of information out there on Japan what to do, where to go,where to eat and stay. However when it comes to a family of 5 PCSing ther...