Currently we are just working away at our teaching jobs and previous to our car purchase things were a little grim around here. We were pretty much working with our eyes on the weekend, and once the weekend got here we would just sit around and try to recuperate or if we were lucky we'd meet up with Asamoto-san.
(The Maizuru area really is very beautiful, we are eagerly anticipating autumn)Now we are in a better position. Last Friday our insurance finally went through and we were able to pick up the car and drive around. It actually didn't take me very long to get used to driving on the left side of the road (my theory is that with the steering wheel on the other side of the car it is pretty familiar being closer to the centre line).
Georgia's first turn driving was a little rougher, because she hasn't driven an automatic since her drivers test and tried to use two feet (one on gas, one on brake). Soon she'll be motoring around the city though.
We decided to take advantage of our mobility and make our way to a beach. This was actually a fairly difficult task for us because there are no english maps to be found in Maizuru. Seriously. None. Even google maps lists the majority of places in Japan in Japanese and the directions we got weren't helpful whatsoever.
Anyways, we decided to simply drive toward the coast and continue exploring until we found one and luckily it worked for us. We drove for about 35 minutes and found a nice, nearly deserted beach.
We played frisbee for a little bit and then we went for a walk along the beach. On our way back to the place we left our stuff, we saw something red floating in the water.
At first I had no idea what we were looking at, in fact, I was worried it was a dress or clothing or something and we were the discoverers of.... MURDER! But, it turned out to be a little less dramatic.
Next we thought that it might be a dead jellyfish or something. Soon something else showed up and looked as though it were eating the dead sea animal.
We really thought that there were two animals involved here and one of them was scrounging up a meal but soon enough the tide carried the body close enough for us to see.
A dead squid turned out to be what we had stood around gawking at for about 10 minutes. It was pretty interesting to see it up close and poke it and stuff. Having only rarely visited oceans in my first 23 years of life, seeing ocean creatures up close is definately cool, even if they are dead.
After the squid adventure we decided to make a sandcastle. It, of course, sucked... but all we had was a frisbee and the sun was drying up our sand really quickly. So I decided to destroy our hard work.
Here is my Georgia, looking as lovely as ever :)
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