Just a quick trip

Saturday was a busy day. Stephanie has taken over Chris' paper route and had to deliver the base paper to everyone in our housing area (253 papers in all). Right after that she had to go sell Girl Scout cookies. So when we asked if she wanted to go to a new shopping area off base, we weren't suprised when she said no.

Chris, Lyle and I decided to go without her. We have driven by the Plaza House shopping area many times, since it is on the way from Kadena to Camp Foster (the big Marine base on island), but have never stopped. We were going mainly because we had heard of an Italian Ice Cream shop there called GelloBello that was supposed to be yummy.

We found a spot to park in the garage under the open air mall and decided to start at the top (3rd floor) and work our way down.

The top floor had a few restaurants and an arcade. We wandered to each menu poster and decided we definitely need to go back to try the Indian place. We watched one of the chefs making bread against the sides of a pit oven - very cool! The other places didn't grab our attention (and the arcade was calling "Chris... oh Chris..."). We went to the arcade and tried our luck at the skill games. I was thrilled to find the 10 yen games, there were also slot machines, but since I can't read Kanji, I didn't try them.... yet! Chris won a couple of trinkets for me, then we moved on. After tourning the second floor (mostly clothing stores) we hit the main floor. Before going through these tho, Lyle wanted his ice cream.

We went in search of GelloBello, and found it in the strip mall portion of the shopping center. Unfortunately it was closed, with an official looking sign on it's door. I wonder what it said? Lyle was bummed until we realized there was a small grocery store in the mall. We went in, looked around and found the ice cream freezer:

Chris chose the treat on the top. It was plain vanilla ice cream in a funky bottle type plastic container:

I chose the middle ice cream since it looked like a Toffee bar - I wasn't disappointed, dark chocolate over yummy vanilla ice cream:

Lyle opted for one that looked like it would be a Dreamsicle (the one on the bottom in the picture above):

Turns out it was a Peanut Butter type flavor (very faint) but the big suprise was the Mochi center (gelatinous rice paste). He liked my ice cream better!

Tune in tomorrow for more of our weekend, I am tired of fighting with blogger for today!