Day Two

Day 2: Tuesday (October 16th) Late start again, but hey we are all on vacation so that is what you are supposed to do! The day started off with more sports than Laura and I could handle! Monday night football and baseball were on this morning for us, you get used to eating breakfast and watching the games J around here. Matt and Daniel kept each other updated with the scores of the games they were watching in different rooms. Then it was lunch time, so we made sandwiches and got ready for the day. It was another great day out so we went to the Ryukyu Mura which is a neat tourist place that has lots of real life displays of what Okinawan villages use to look like back in the day. The best part was that we all got our picture taken in Japanese Clothes, we were cracking up at the hat they made Daniel wear it looked like he had a cash register on his head, but hey I shouldn’t be laughing because Laura and I had to wear some that looked like lamp shades!! It was soooooooo funny, we even drew a crowd as Japanese people passing by were taking pictures of us getting dressed up! It was interesting with the language barrier trying to figure out what they wanted us to wear and how they wanted us to stand, but of course they were so very nice! They even took pictures of us with our own cameras! Be looking for those pictures they are too funny! We finally started through the park and we got to see lots of different houses, fed some carp and ducks, and then came across a little hut with two little Japanese ladies that were sooooooo funny! They were in the “Saki” hut so you can only imagine what they had been drinking all day!! They offered us some samples and started giggling, and we were asking them how to say some words in Japanese too. They knew pretty good English and were quite entertaining to say the least. There was also a Habu snake and Mongoose show, but we passed on that, the two of them fight and one dies…… uhg no thanks on that one! We continued on and saw some neat pottery of some Shisha Dogs, they are all over Japan in all the doorways, they represents good and evil. One has it’s mouth open to hold in good fortune, and the other has the mouth open to let out the bad! We saw a big bull helping to make sugar, poor thing just walks around in a circle all day helping to turn this crank! Can you tell I am an animal lover hee-hee! Love, T RAH