Sand Dollar Beach

As we get closer to our PCS date (What?!? Just over 2 months left!), I feel the need to check stuff off my "must do in Okinawa" bucket list. One of those things was going to Sand Dollar Beach. I brought our camera to document our fun adventure, only to find that it didn't have a memory card in it, so I was limited to the capacity on the camera's internal memory- which was only 4 pictures! Lame! 

I had high hopes of finding tons of sand dollars, but this was the closest I got to a good one:

Almost perfect, aside from the small hole and the mass of plant life on the other side.

While I was a little disappointed, we still had fun scouring the beach and finding shells. Sydney was picking up every. single. thing. that caught her eye.

Another item on the bucket list was driving on Melody Road, which was just a few minutes away from the beach. The road had grooves of varying widths etched into it so that it played a Japanese love song when we drove over 40 km/hr over it. A clever way to show Japanese pride and ensure that people drive the speed limit?

This treble clef shows the starting point of the song.

We drove over it 4 or 5 times (sometimes pulling a James Bond and going over it backwards on the wrong side of the street)- it was pretty cool! While Spencer, Syd, and I enjoyed picking out the tune, Shawn did this the entire time:

Somehow he was still enthralled with it and kept asking, "Where the music road go?" and got kind of ticked when we said we were done driving on it. He talked about the "music road" for several days afterward too :)