Sea Shell Hunting
We did this for a majority of the day. I woke up early and actually couldn’t really sleep well. The departure time was 8:30am, which really wasn’t bad since I wake up around 6:30am every morning nowadays. So technically I was able to sleep in, but really it’s still quite an early reveille time. Actually I really didn’t care since it was something to do and I was on vacation so I needed to enjoy my time somehow. I thought it was going to be a very fun and very relaxing
We went hunting for sea shells for about 5 hours, and it gets to be very tiring.
It was a nice area and all I remember doing was eating. It was very American style and everyone was doing it, but the difference was what they were making on the BBQ. We went to an area in the Kanazawa ward near Yokosuka called Umi no Koen, which means the park of the sea. It was fun, but tiring and I was stuffed like a turkey. I had eaten so much that I felt like I have gained a lot of weight recently. I really don’t feel like I’m really gaining weight, as much as I would say just getting fat. It’s not really weight, but more like the saturated fats in foods that really are getting me down.
I was really tired after all that digging in the sand. I have pictures from this, and you will see them posted sooner or later. I might have gotten a bit of a tan too, although it probably wouldn’t be one that is good. I was standing and squatting in such a weird position all day that it just wore me down. I was glad to go home and I think that this might have been a once a year kind of thing. I wouldn’t want to do it everyday. The food was delicious though and I had eaten a lot, but maybe too much is not a good thing.
When we got home, I walked into my room and just started to clean up myself. I just felt so dirty from the experience that I just wanted to wash my clothes and to take a long shower to clean myself of all the cuts and sand that was all over me. After that I was able to relax in front of my computer and just do nothing. That was a fun experience, but it just lasted too long. I think that perhaps if there were more people I could talk to or more my age, it might have been a bit better. But still an experience I’ve had in Japan. I’m glad that I’m on vacation to recover from this.
