It took me awhile to process what was going on. When my brain caught up I turned around and said "Mommy" in scared voice and my mom lying on the couch said, rather loudly because she had earphones in "You feel that!" She took out her earphones and I stood up from my chair looking at the clock and then my mother. "Cool!" she said. "No mommy not cool. What do we do?" but both of us said nothing, mesmerized by the waving beneath us. Also, I was frozen with fear. Wondering what do. Just standing there.
After several seconds, the shaking faded but, came back with a boom like thunder. That's when my mother said: "Okay. That's a bad one." I'm pretty sure that's what made it a 6.9. That last bang. You know, I think the earth is mad at us. All these earthquakes, it's beating us up. We need to treat it better. Then again, the earth is alive so no earthquakes would be weird. However, we still need to treat it with more care.
Learning For Life!
09 November, 2011
Churaumi Aqaurium
As some of you may already know my Grandmother (my dad's mom, Grandma Carol) just came for a visit. She was our very first visitor here in Okinawa. And, we had loads of fun!
One of the places we went while she was here was the Churaumi Aquarium. It was all of the Price Kidz first time going to any aquarium.
The aquarium is a part of the Ocean Expo Park located in Motobu, Okinawa. The aquarium is made up of four floors, with tanks containing deep sea creatures, sharks, coral and tropical fish. The aquarium is set on 19,000 m² of land, with a total of 77 tanks containing 10,000 m³ of water. Water for the saltwater exhibits is pumped into the aquarium from a source 350m offshore, 24 hours a day (I got that from Wiki-pedia).
"Churaumi" means graceful or beautiful ocean. "Chura" (pronounced chew-rah") means graceful or beautiful and "umi" (oo-me) means ocean. It was so cool to see all the wild life there but, sad to see them not in there natural environment. I'm attaching a link to this entry for the slide show. We also got a new camera from Grandma Carol. So there will be plenty of pictures now!
Here is the link. I would suggest changing the seconds to 6. And change the zoom level on your computer to 100%.
https://picasaweb.google.com/vincentprice74/October282011#slideshow/5668376632144045602
One of the places we went while she was here was the Churaumi Aquarium. It was all of the Price Kidz first time going to any aquarium.
The aquarium is a part of the Ocean Expo Park located in Motobu, Okinawa. The aquarium is made up of four floors, with tanks containing deep sea creatures, sharks, coral and tropical fish. The aquarium is set on 19,000 m² of land, with a total of 77 tanks containing 10,000 m³ of water. Water for the saltwater exhibits is pumped into the aquarium from a source 350m offshore, 24 hours a day (I got that from Wiki-pedia).
"Churaumi" means graceful or beautiful ocean. "Chura" (pronounced chew-rah") means graceful or beautiful and "umi" (oo-me) means ocean. It was so cool to see all the wild life there but, sad to see them not in there natural environment. I'm attaching a link to this entry for the slide show. We also got a new camera from Grandma Carol. So there will be plenty of pictures now!
Here is the link. I would suggest changing the seconds to 6. And change the zoom level on your computer to 100%.
https://picasaweb.google.com/vincentprice74/October282011#slideshow/5668376632144045602
29 October, 2011
5K Run
A couple weeks ago my mom signed my father and I up for a 5K Back To School Run. When she signed us up there was nobody else signed up. So, we were definitely going. As some of you may already know; I used to run track. So running isn't new to me. But long distance is new, and I don't even like running. You can go head and imagine how I felt being woken up at 6:00 am to run...........(your imagination is flowing)............exactly.
Yet, I had to be positive about it because, well, I had no choice. So I ran every morning for a week until finally, came Saturday, August 13, 2011, (I guess it deserves that whole date) the day of the run. *DUN DUN DAAAAAAHHH* I have to admit I was nervous. I mean I had never ran a 5K before and my dad and I were barely trained for it. Plus, there was a whole bunch of people there. But, we signed in, stretched and were on are way. I thought I was doing pretty great until my calf's really started bothering me. And, soon enough I started walking. The route was pretty easy and mostly down-hill until there was a HUGE up-hill part. That was the hardest part of the whole entire run. However, I was proud of myself for not being the last person to cross the finish line. And I crossed it running. My time was also shorter than I expected too. It was 37 minutes and my dad's was 32 minutes. I think we did pretty good for not really training for it. And, I believe we'll be doing another one in October!
Yet, I had to be positive about it because, well, I had no choice. So I ran every morning for a week until finally, came Saturday, August 13, 2011, (I guess it deserves that whole date) the day of the run. *DUN DUN DAAAAAAHHH* I have to admit I was nervous. I mean I had never ran a 5K before and my dad and I were barely trained for it. Plus, there was a whole bunch of people there. But, we signed in, stretched and were on are way. I thought I was doing pretty great until my calf's really started bothering me. And, soon enough I started walking. The route was pretty easy and mostly down-hill until there was a HUGE up-hill part. That was the hardest part of the whole entire run. However, I was proud of myself for not being the last person to cross the finish line. And I crossed it running. My time was also shorter than I expected too. It was 37 minutes and my dad's was 32 minutes. I think we did pretty good for not really training for it. And, I believe we'll be doing another one in October!
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