Chris and Kelly's Okinawa Adventures: Oki friends and Oki biking

After the Steins left, we continued to stay busy with entertaining! We decided it was time to put our new patio furniture to use. Good weather + good friends + balcony with furniture + nice view + margaritas = GREAT times! :)
We had several friends over on a few different occasions...
One night there were some local fireworks...and we had a great view from our place! We had a few friends come by for the event.

Another night we decided to just hang out...with the 'fantastic five' as our friend Hanashiro-san calls us (Temi, Luke, Kirsten, Chris and myself). We had nowhere to go, so margaritas on the balcony seemed like a good idea :)

Temi, Kirsten and Luke

Luke trying to show us that he really was happy.

Okinawa Biking:

Well, Chris is a seasoned road biker and has gone on several rides since being here in Okinawa. He's gone out both alone and with some groups to see some really cool parts of the island! I'm still a newbie at the road bike...in fact, I don't even have one! I'm just used to my trusty old moutain bike. But, as many of you know, we have a tandem roadbike here with us! Sounds crazy, but it's a lot of fun. :) We decided to take it up north one day (in a van), and get out onto some of the open, less traveled roads. We only went about 15 miles as it was my first time on a bike since last summer's broke back days! The day was a little gloomy and we probably could have gone farther, but thundering in the distance creeped me out and we turned around. It was probably a good thing we did b/c it started to pour during our last mile! The ride was SO nice though b/c the area was very pretty and desolate...just like we like it for riding on the roads!

So Chris wanted to go see the view but I was too scared b/c it was just starting to thunder and I was afraid lightning would hit the tower. I'm a worrier...what can I say! haha

Cool view, cool fish :)

On Easter Sunday, Chris was on duty at the hospital all day. So I decided to take out my mountain bike. I ended up riding a little over 25 miles and explored some new areas near home. I ran into one of Chris' coworkers near this festival for Children's Day. They fly 'Carp flags' of a certain color for the children.

100 mile bike ride:

Yes, you read that correctly...100 miles and we did it on the tandem!! We met up with a group of riders at 6:30am last Saturday and rode 50 miles north (to Okuma-a resort area), had brunch, and then rode back!! It was really fun, but I was exhausted by mile 85, and near 3 year old breakdown level my mile 95 haha. j/k :) The group we rode up with was great too! Fun people to be around for my first century ride ever!!! Not sure when the next will be...I'm still sore haha :)

All done with my first century ride!! :)

And last but not least...our first of many...the military ball! Oh, which consequently was also Saturday night...after the 100 mile bike ride. Nonetheless, I was determined to still go in style and even attempt to dance a little...just couldn't work the quads haha...made for interesting dancing :)
Chris and I also decided that we had never actually danced together as a married couple! How funny that we just finally shared our first dance.