For Thanksgiving we decided to dine at Tama Hills, the Yokota AB Annex also know as the country club. We had quite an adventure to get there. We left at 12:30 armed with a lousy map and a quarter of tank of gas (and the only onbase gas station was closed!). Click on the Start below to view our trip (that is our lousy map).

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You can see that we got lost a lot. It’s a 45 minute drive and it took us two hours to get there and two hours back! Luckily our reservation was for 4 because even tough we left at 12:30 we didn’t get there until 2:30. Then we left there about 5 and got home around 7:30 (we did go to rent a movie on base).

As for the dinner… we both agreed that our moms’ are much better cooks. The turkey was dry, the stuffing over spiced, the gravey too thick, and the pumpkin pie tasted like the dough of ginger bread cookies. Okay may our expectations were too high. Sam did clear his plate.

While we were waiting for our reservation we did explore the annex. We went to the stables and I found out about horse riding lessons. I have decided to give riding a try, but I’m going to wait until spring. Then we decided to try our hands at archery. Both of use haven’t had archery in several years and we did horribly. We ended up returning the bows and arrows after 15 minutes because it wasn’t very much fun.

We are thinking about staying at Tama for our first date anniversary (March 5), but we will have to see if Sam can get time off.