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
Learning For Life!
09 November, 2011
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!
14 August, 2011
Robot Exhibit
Have you ever wondered if the future many kids dream of is here? If the hover boards and flying cars made up in Back to the Future: Part 2, is really somewhere out there being approved? What if the future is here? What if right now there is an alien talking to the president? You never know. The world is a gigantic place, and so is the universe. All I know is that’s exactly how I felt last Saturday.
We drove and drove to a billion Lawsons, Family Marts, and even a CoCo. These are all convenience stores by the way. They have these red boxes where you can get (no, not movies) tickets for whatever event you. If you buy from those boxes instead of the actual event, you get a discount. We were trying to get a discount but of all the convenience stores we drove to, not a single one had any tickets for a robot exhibit. My dad had read about this exhibit in one of the newspapers on Kadena Air Base. He really wanted to take us. So, he ended up buying tickets at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art. Long name, eh?
Walking in, we saw a whole bunch of life-sized replicas of famous robot characters from famous movies. One you might recognize, (if you’re like me and just love action movies) is The Terminator. That thing scared the heepitapajeebees out of me! If it were moving I would have ran out of that building.
As we continued walking around, we saw a bunch of little toys, action figures and posters of things like Astro Boy, Starwars, Transformers, and Alien. Plus, there were many more Japanese characters we didn’t know. It was truly robot heaven!
Once we got past all the still robots, we got to some real, live, moving ones. The first one we saw was a climbing robot. It was a silver-ish color that looked like aluminum foil. The next robot we saw was a little baby dinosaur called a Pleo. You can actually buy it. I knew a friend who had that one. The Pleo is a very life-like robot. Its movements are almost like a real animal. It even has “skin” on it to cover up all its wires and medal parts.
Next we saw some remote wired cars. Kemet got to drive one on a short obstacle course. Once Kemet hopped out of that super cool car, we then headed over to check out some robot floor cleaners! They were circular and had little bristles underneath them that sweep up all the dirt off of the floor. There was a floor sample to demonstrate the cleaning performance of the robots.
Finally, my FAVORITE robot was the ones that could play traditional musical instruments! There were three robots playing a traditional Okinawan song. This song must have been popular, because everyone was clapping and bobbing their heads to it! All and all this robot exhibit was the Bom!
Here is a short slide show for this entry: https://picasaweb.google.com/vincentprice74/August102011#slideshow/5639016823074559698
We drove and drove to a billion Lawsons, Family Marts, and even a CoCo. These are all convenience stores by the way. They have these red boxes where you can get (no, not movies) tickets for whatever event you. If you buy from those boxes instead of the actual event, you get a discount. We were trying to get a discount but of all the convenience stores we drove to, not a single one had any tickets for a robot exhibit. My dad had read about this exhibit in one of the newspapers on Kadena Air Base. He really wanted to take us. So, he ended up buying tickets at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art. Long name, eh?
Walking in, we saw a whole bunch of life-sized replicas of famous robot characters from famous movies. One you might recognize, (if you’re like me and just love action movies) is The Terminator. That thing scared the heepitapajeebees out of me! If it were moving I would have ran out of that building.
As we continued walking around, we saw a bunch of little toys, action figures and posters of things like Astro Boy, Starwars, Transformers, and Alien. Plus, there were many more Japanese characters we didn’t know. It was truly robot heaven!
Once we got past all the still robots, we got to some real, live, moving ones. The first one we saw was a climbing robot. It was a silver-ish color that looked like aluminum foil. The next robot we saw was a little baby dinosaur called a Pleo. You can actually buy it. I knew a friend who had that one. The Pleo is a very life-like robot. Its movements are almost like a real animal. It even has “skin” on it to cover up all its wires and medal parts.
Next we saw some remote wired cars. Kemet got to drive one on a short obstacle course. Once Kemet hopped out of that super cool car, we then headed over to check out some robot floor cleaners! They were circular and had little bristles underneath them that sweep up all the dirt off of the floor. There was a floor sample to demonstrate the cleaning performance of the robots.
Finally, my FAVORITE robot was the ones that could play traditional musical instruments! There were three robots playing a traditional Okinawan song. This song must have been popular, because everyone was clapping and bobbing their heads to it! All and all this robot exhibit was the Bom!
Here is a short slide show for this entry: https://picasaweb.google.com/vincentprice74/August102011#slideshow/5639016823074559698
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