Part 6 - Tokyo, Nikko, and Toyama
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I thought this was a nice shot of penguin. Those quick buggers are tough to photograph!
These little worm things were crazy! They’d move in and out of sand and chomp at things from time to time. Sort of creepy! Think about these guys next time you walk around in the water at the beach.
One of the reasons I went to the aquarium was that I heard they had a cool dolphin show. I’m a sucker for sea monsters flipping and doing tricks and stuff!
Possibly the coolest part of the show as the water falling from the ceiling. The aquarium had a precision controlled system for shooting down which meant that they could make all kinds of shapes out of the falling water. They could even spell words and numbers out. I was fascinated by this technology. Gotta figure out some way to convince my church that we need this for the Youth Program somehow...
I thought the lady surfing on the dolphin was quite impressive!
Dolphin madness! It was a pretty fun show. The reason no one was sitting in the bottom rows is that it turns out that not many people want to get soaked by a splashing sea demon at noon.
They had a cool glass tunnel thing. Again, nothing totally unique, but it was a fun little outing.
And with that, my time overseas was over and I jetted away. Okay, I wasn’t actually in this plane...but it was the flight that I did take, just two days earlier (and yes, I know how to track this stuff...doesn’t everyone!).
What a time! While it was a lot of time and a LOT of money, it was an incredible experience I will never forget.
Traveling internationally can be expensive, hard, frustrating, and scary at times - but it’s so worth it. There’s a lot of world out there beyond the 20 miles around your house and your favorite Florida beach hangout. Traveling has allowed me to stretch myself in ways that I never could at home.
I loved this trip - time to start planning the next one!