During each transfer (six week period,) it's tradition that the mission district you are in does a p-day activity together on one of the p-days during that transfer. Our district is split between two cities: Tsuruoka (where we are) and Yamagata (11/2 hours away.) Since they are so far away, we do split p-day activities with our city. The four of us decided to go to the Tsuruoka Jelly Fish Aquarium. It is quite a claim to fame for our city as it has the largest number of jelly fish in an aquarium in the world. We had NO idea there were that many different species of jelly fish. There were other fish, turtles, and a sea lion show as well, but the jelly fish were the stars of the show! At noon each day, they feed minnows to black-tailed gulls. Ken got some great shots of that. So please enjoy our tour of the Jelly Fish Aquarium in Tsuruoka, Japan.
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| Elders Hansen, Myers, and Hinton |
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| Sea Lion Show |
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| Coming for food |
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| I like this shot Ken took as it shows a feather in the sky that one of the birds just lost. |
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| It was a holiday on Monday, so the place was absolutely packed with mostly families with children. |
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| I thought this one was so beautiful and unusual |
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| These were bright purple, but the picture didn't capture that very well. |
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| These were the prettiest color of blue. |
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| These would actually glow neon colors, but it was impossible to capture it with our cameras. |
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| This octopus put on a show for us. |
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| This is a squid. Fried calamari anyone? |
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| He posed for us. |
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| We had to try the jelly fish ice cream. It was just like regular ice cream with little pieces of jelly fish in it. I won't be trying that again anytime soon. But now I have a new thing to say when you play that game where you try to think of things you've done that no one else has. I've eaten jelly fish ice cream. You can see how very windy it was out there by the sea. |
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| You could actually buy frozen jelly fish to take home and eat. No, we did not. |
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| After our visit to the aquarium, we went to lunch at our favorite Midori's restaurant. |
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| Elder Myers got the fried chicken set. |
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| Elder Hinton got curry rice. |
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| Elder Hansen got the tempura. |
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| And I got ramen soup- a favorite of many Japanese people. |
It was a fun day and really the first day off we've taken since New Year's.
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| The elders in their new jellyfish ties that they purchased at the aquarium. |
3 comments:
What a fun post! Those jellyfish are beautiful! Who knew! And, yes, thank you, I'll take some calamari - it's my favorite guilty pleasure! That aquarium looks so interesting, and what a fun day with the cute elders. And Kay and Ken, you look so cute in the pics! I would like to go to your favorite restaurant with you; it all looks delicious!
Wow what a great aquarium. The jellyfish are beautiful. Kay, your hair is getting so long. You look so cute!
Wow! Who knew there were so many different varieties of jelly fish?!? I gotta admit the octopus looking things really creep me out. And yes, don't think you'll find many people who have willingly tried jelly fish ice cream over here.;)
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