Visit with Santa and the Festival of Trees

Last weekend we went to the Festival of Trees on base. The Festival of Trees is an event that is put on in the headquarters building on the base here. Each command or group on the base decorates a tree with a certain theme. It was a really neat thing to see- about 40 live Christmas trees all decorated differently. You'll see the Yokosuka Co-op Preschool tree and the Sullivan's Elementary School trees that I have added to the blog. There is also a picture of the tree decorated by Submarine Group Seven (Brian's command). The schools had pictures of all of the kids, so that was fun for them to see. Another highlight was the Japanese Santa. We couldn't resist a photo opportunity of the boys with him.

We are a week away from getting on our plane back to the states. We are all excited for Christmas and the fact that we will be seeing many of you soon.

We hope you all are enjoying the season!