Saturday!

So I know I said my next post would have pictures and we'd tell you where we're living, but I decided to hold off on photos and telling you where we're living until we're settled in and I can take proper photos.  We finally made our decision yesterday.  Today we ran all around.  It was a pain.
Our day started off nicely- K slept in until 8:15.  I rented an Elmo dvd and she watched that while I got ready for the day.  I feel bad that we haven't done much for her since we've been here.  She's been such a good girl-  she gets fussy after sitting in the car seat ALL day, but the Mr and I are rather cranky after running around all over the island allll day, too.  Today was another day in the car, but we didn't even go very far.
We went to the post office where we had a boat load of packages to pick up.  Then K and I went over to our bank where we attempted to get a cashier's check.  They tried 5 different times to print the check, but it never printed clearly enough to read the amount, account number, or anything important.  After 35 mins I gave up and just took out the cash for the rent, security deposit, and housing agency fee.  I hate walking around with large amounts of cash.  Especially since after spending 35 minutes tying up 1 of the 2 open lines there was a nice crowd behind me hearing how much was getting counted out.
So after signing the lease (we get our place at 4pm thursday!!!) we went to Kadena AFB to our housing office where we requested furniture and the Mr made an appointment to fill out more paperwork (hah! Only in the military do you have to fill out paperwork to make an appointment to do more paperwork).  We requested a double bed, twin bed, couch and coffee table, dining room table & chairs and have to go onto our base to request temporary living stuff like pots and pans, sheets, lamps, etc. We needed to request all of this because our stuff wouldn't be delivered until the 23rd, which I find ridiculous because our shipment arrived on island before we even left the States.
After the housing office we went to Community Bank and opened an account.  It's a Bank of America (yuck) branded bank, but this bank is super military friendly and you can get Yen from the ATMs out of your account.  Then we took our temporary checks that we just got from our new account and went back to the leasing agency to try to give them a check because they did not want cash.  Turns out they did not want cash at all because they would not take our check, either.  It was one of those translation things.  The gal said we could write a check, but apparently she meant from a Japanese bank.
As we were leaving the housing agent TMO called and asked us if they could deliver our belongings thursday.  Back in to the leasing office to ask if we could get our place a day earlier, but no luck.  TMO offered saturday instead!  YAY! We get our things saturday!!!  This means we have to go back to the Kadena housing office to tell them we don't need half of what we said we'd need, but that's ok.  Now if only Addy would be here saturday everything would be perfect.
Then we went to GI Bill Pay.  It's this service that pays your bills for you for a small monthly fee (It's costing us $9/ month).  Not something I would normally go for, but I think it will be totally worth it for the convenience.  They will pay our rent, trash, water, and electric via debit which means I will not have to physically go to the offices to pay like the housing agency requires.  That means no dragging little miss out into the rain to pay rent.  perfect!  sign me up!
After visiting all these offices it was dinner time and we decided to reward ourselves with dinner from our favorite ramen place. By this point it was absolutely downpouring.  No one was in the restaurant and the ramen was the perfect meal for the soggy mess outside.  K LOVES this place and always eats a ton.

Happy family!