March 21: Amy Gets Embarrassed

We have a lot of visits to fish museums and aquariums on our schedule and we finally figured out why. Apparently when the Japanese saw that Amy worked at the Marin County History Museum - they saw Marin as marine --- so now we know!
Today we visited the Aqua World Oarai (Theme Park) in Oarai. This was a cross between the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Sea World. When we arrived we were all in awe of seeing the Pacific Ocean from the other side except for one person (Roger!) who said it was the Japanese Sea. He apparently didn't realize which direction we had been driving! The ocean was rough and magnificent pounding against the rocks.
After looking around for a bit we caught the dolphin show which was a blast - watching the tricks and trying to catch some of the jumps on camera! The best part was watching the excitement on some of the little kids' faces. After the show we parted ways - Amy and I went to check out some of the exhibits. The coolest by far was seeing the shark egg sacks in development - you could see through them and see the shark baby inside. By the time it was close to hatching - if that's the right word - the sack was so tight the shark was wound up inside.
WARNING!
If you're easily offended - don't read this next part!
The best part of the day was when we got to the seals. Two of the seals were together on the ground and Amy said they were so cute, cuddling. I said, they're not cuddling they're having sex. And who do you think was right! Oh yeah, that would be me. They turned over and we saw - well - the seal's manly parts. However - the best was how embarrassed Amy got. Even now she says (jokingly) how traumatized she was!!!
WARNING OVER!
Our last stop of the day was at the Kairakuen Japanese Garden. Beautiful! All the plum trees in bloom and the Cherry Blossoms just beginning. We wandered around for about an hour taking pictures and looking at just how gorgeous everything was.
However, Amy and I got very confused towards the end. We thought we were meeting everyone at the gate at 2:30. Nope - it was at the bus at 2:30, so we kept wandering around thinking we must have had the time wrong. After about 15 minutes one of the Rotary members tracked us down - I felt soooo bad. Sheila then told me that I had told her to be at the bus - apparently my brain isn't working so well anymore!!!! But, at least they didn't leave without us!
We arrived back home at dinnertime - a lovely meal of sushi takeout. It was so good - Geraldine and I pigged out (again!) We were both tired, so when we were sent up to bed again at 8pm we didn't mind so much this time.