Okinawa Day #4

Our fourth day was spent at the glass factory and wonderful Okinawa world!

We took two cabs to the glass factory to save about 2 hours in our commute. John, Andra and I were in one cab, where the guy kept talking to us in Japanese... Andra was the only one talking to him. I was reading a book and John was listening to music.. and I was purposefully ignoring the driver LOL. Andra sort of understood him I think. Anyhow we got to the glass factory safely. At frist I wanted to pay to blow glass, only 2000 yen, but everyone was too chicken to talk to anyone and too chicken to do it with me so we decided just to shop instead. I got a few cool things in the glass store. I bought my favorite souvenir here that I will show everyone when I get back.

If I ever go back to Okinawa I would come back here! Okinawa world is a cultural theme park all about Okinawa, (no cool rides). We got to watch traditional dancing and drum playing. We went to a snake show. John wanted to see the famous Okinawan Snake vs. mongoose fight but alas no gory fights were shown. We went to the cultural museum there. Had a wonderful lunch in the cafeteria. (can't remember what I ate anymore though sorry). We all bought Hibiscus tea, which I LOVE because when it's cold it's sweet and when it's hot it's bitter. My host parents don't like it much but I think it's 'Yum.'

I think the best part of Okinawa world was the underground caves we got to go in. I'm going to say it's about a 20 min fast walk through. Prob. took us a little under 50 mins because we were taking a lot of pictures and stopping here and there. There was one area in the caves that completely freaked me out. The room/area had a step down area and when you walk out into the open area you look up and thousands of little spikes are starring at you. I was paranoide that they were going to break off and fall on me and kill me.... even the smallest one would have. Then this stupid little kid ran by and shouted really loud and banged his feet on the ground. I was making choking motions in his direction because I really wanted to kill that kid! Brat! Other then the scary parts the caves were very pretty.