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Churaumi Aquarium

 Evening Greetings from Okinawa,       While settling in, we've allowed ourselves some day trips here and there instead of running endless errands on the weekends to get everything in order. First up on the list was a trip to the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium! I'd heard stories from Adam about his visit here on his deployment but I couldn't properly imagine everything this space had in store for us!       When we first were talking about the island, I thought it was much smaller, maybe an hour top to bottom and twenty minutes across. Given the infrastructure and slower cars and speed limits, the trip from top to bottom is closer to two and a half hours, but the twenty minutes across stands (on most parts). We rarely drive anywhere further north than where Adam works which is only about halfway up the island. Everything else north is farmland and jungle, a nature reserve. The Churaumi Aquarium rests on the edge of this more rural terrain and the c...

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