Kadena AFB, Okinawa Japan!!

After sitting on a plane for 17 hours straight, 14 flying, and the rest was loading and refueling, we finally landed at the kadena AFB in Okinawa. As we taxied the runway, you could see the welcoming party of military personel standing on the tarmac awaiting our arrival. The military people were amazing, they unloaded all of our bags and equipment and delivered them to our rooms at the Shogun inn hotel on the base. As we got off the bus in front of our hotel, each athelete was greeted with their own "sponsor" our military assistant to help us to our rooms and answer any questions that we had. My sponsor gave me his cell number and said that he has been given permission to drop any task that he is doing to accompany my needs if I call him...really cool to have your own servant! haha. He works on the Bomb dump as an ammunitions person and will take me there this weekend. The bomb dump is HUGEE!! and it is located in the jungle so that tree canopy covers their ammuninition from planes flying above. I guess that I got lucky because you need to have someone sign you off to get into the bomb dump.
Then our sponsors waited for us to change and escorted us over to the officers club for our briefing of the base and dinner buffet. All of this was first class.
Every athlete has their own room at the hotel, that has kitchen, living room and bedroom. The meals that they have served us have been amazing as well.
I was able to stay awake for most of the flight so I got a good nights sleep in and feel better this morning. We took a bus ride to our training facility that was a nice outdoor 50 meter pool. Great weather at 8 in the morning...still trying to get used to the humidity but its nice to not have to wear sweatshirts at 7 am. I felt great in the water this morning, practice was just a warm up this morning, but it was effortless. Overall, I am loving Kadena and Okinawa by far the coolest place that I have been with paralympics!!