Forced Family Fun

We decided we needed to get the kids out of the house and we needed to explore something on Okinawa.  So after Christmas, we did.  We dragged them out to the Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum for a good time.  The kids were adamant that they were NOT going to have a good time, and they refused to.

Heading into the Museum.  It was interesting and depressing. 

They perked up a little when we went outside, but they pretended they were still not having fun. 

Josh wasn't helpful about when he was taking this photo for me, so I was busy being silly. 

 And Dan was trying not to laugh at me.

 This part was a little reminiscent of the Viet Nam Memorial.  It has 200,000 names on all these stones, for all the people who died.  It was nicely done.

Up a hill were a bunch of other specific memorial things, like these stones. 

They agreed to a group shot, but not to looks of delight.

These two were happy to climb the rock though. 

 And at the end, I bought everyone ice cream for their cooperation, if not their enthusiasm.  Check out all the cool choices! I kind of wanted to try the "Mango Tango" but I didn't.

 Rylee tried the pineapple ice cream.  Yummy!

 Marian tried out the Sugar Cane flavor and proclaimed it delicious.

Delaney sampled the Cookies-n-Cream flavor and liked it.

There are three kids in this tree.  Can you spot them?! 

We had sandwich fixings in the car so we ate lunch while the girls climbed the tree. 

There's Rylee. 

And Callie... who beat a hasty retreat once she disturbed an ant nest and they came after her.

 Ad Marian is on her way down so we can go home.

It ended up being a really good trip, considering all the resistance to it.