Sometimes I think I have just as much fun on the way to places as I do once we arrive. Where is kinkado? And why did they leave their heart there? And what does the jungle cat have to do with Marlboro ice blast cigarettes? Can you imagine how freaked out people would be if they had cigarette vending machines in America?
I thought this side street looked very festive.
You don't need to be able to read signs if you want to get drunk in Japan. If there are lanterns that usually means it's an izakaya, aka a bar/Spanish tapas style meals combo place. Of course if there are drunken shisa dogs on top, that's another clue.
Anyway, we saw all these things on our way to the Zukeran egg shop/zoo. We chose this place because it's free! We just spent $500 on a second car (yep, you can get cars that run for pretty good prices here, lol) so we're needing to not spend much this pay period.
It's a fairly small zoo but there was a lot to see. My only real complaint was the smell. Poop and tropical climates are a bad combo.
I've never seen an armadillo this close before. If I ever saw one outside of a cage I would run in the other direction in fear of my life.
This little guy was very curious. He was studying everyone around him.
The main star of the zoo was turtles. There were turtles everywhere. None of them looked like this guy though.
Tman and I were checking out some of the turtles in this picture. Josh's photography skills are getting better.
This pig was huge, and a little disgruntled. He kept going to his food bowl....and he kept walking in his poop to do so, but the bowl was empty and he didn't like that. I guess Thomas looked tasty.
But my baby wasn't up for being pig food and took off like a bat out of hell. Speaking of bats T stuck his finger in a bat cage. And by bat cage I mean hamster cage from petsmart that they stuck a bat into. The bat flipped out. T's survival instincts kicked in before I could reach his hand. That was scary. Even if it was a fruit bat.
The egg shop was also a bakery and ice cream stand. These must be some super popular eggs because the locals were coming out with 2 to 3 dozen eggs each.
We don't really like eggs. While I was pregnant I couldn't get over the fact that they were babies, and I haven't gotten over that.
So we bought muffins and these weird brown things. After all the pellet poop we had just seen I thought Josh was nuts for picking these. They tasted like chocolate and were invaluable in keeping T from shrieking on the way home.
All in all a good day. Next weekend is the Naha Tug of War, the guiness world record holder for biggest tug of war in the world....but we aren't going. We're saving it for next year when hopefully T will be a bit more prepared for a "sea of humanity" all day experience.
I thought this side street looked very festive.
You don't need to be able to read signs if you want to get drunk in Japan. If there are lanterns that usually means it's an izakaya, aka a bar/Spanish tapas style meals combo place. Of course if there are drunken shisa dogs on top, that's another clue.
Anyway, we saw all these things on our way to the Zukeran egg shop/zoo. We chose this place because it's free! We just spent $500 on a second car (yep, you can get cars that run for pretty good prices here, lol) so we're needing to not spend much this pay period.
It's a fairly small zoo but there was a lot to see. My only real complaint was the smell. Poop and tropical climates are a bad combo.
I've never seen an armadillo this close before. If I ever saw one outside of a cage I would run in the other direction in fear of my life.
This little guy was very curious. He was studying everyone around him.
The main star of the zoo was turtles. There were turtles everywhere. None of them looked like this guy though.
Tman and I were checking out some of the turtles in this picture. Josh's photography skills are getting better.
This pig was huge, and a little disgruntled. He kept going to his food bowl....and he kept walking in his poop to do so, but the bowl was empty and he didn't like that. I guess Thomas looked tasty.
But my baby wasn't up for being pig food and took off like a bat out of hell. Speaking of bats T stuck his finger in a bat cage. And by bat cage I mean hamster cage from petsmart that they stuck a bat into. The bat flipped out. T's survival instincts kicked in before I could reach his hand. That was scary. Even if it was a fruit bat.
The egg shop was also a bakery and ice cream stand. These must be some super popular eggs because the locals were coming out with 2 to 3 dozen eggs each.
We don't really like eggs. While I was pregnant I couldn't get over the fact that they were babies, and I haven't gotten over that.
So we bought muffins and these weird brown things. After all the pellet poop we had just seen I thought Josh was nuts for picking these. They tasted like chocolate and were invaluable in keeping T from shrieking on the way home.
All in all a good day. Next weekend is the Naha Tug of War, the guiness world record holder for biggest tug of war in the world....but we aren't going. We're saving it for next year when hopefully T will be a bit more prepared for a "sea of humanity" all day experience.
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