I know I am a little behind but that just means I'll have to fill you in. Because we couldn't get enough of Ohama Beach, Anne and I went back last Sunday! Except we brought her friend Keigo who works at the mall with us! It was a fun ride because Keigo is a young musician so he had good music out there and since he's 23, we can learn lots of appropriate Japanese slang! It's a nice mix of Japlish, I'll say that for sure.
This time at Ohama I showed Keigo were all the fishies were and warned him "If you get tired you have to tell me, I am a fish." After circling the rocks a bit I spotted something well, fishy... it was a clear bubble like umbrella floating down to the bottom. When I surfaced to ask Keigo if it was a jellyfish, he was busy looking down himself and by the time I stuck my head back under, the questionable ghosty was gone. It kind of looked like this baby but, more clear and maybe smaller.
Finally Keigo surfaced and said he was tired so we swam back to shore. That's when I noticed my shin hurt. It was stinging once, then again. As we neared shore I could tell it was something odd. It wasn't extremely painful, but it felt like a line of stinging across my lower shin. Sure enough, a few red dots show up and Keigo said it was probably a jellyfish. Blasted little baby one! But I was prepared for anything. I had pain medicine in my bag in case anybody had an ailment, along with after sun, etc. I took a break from the beautiful water and after it stopped stinging, joined Anne in the water again--away from all rocks and fish life.
We ended the day with a trip to Baskin Robbins and the weekends really boost my mood! Somedays I have a stressful time with a kids class and then I get a mini vacation to remind me that hey--I ALMOST am on vacation! I'm in tropical Japan! Which during the weekday, without swimming, really isn't my cup of tea. Miss you cold Minnesota!
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