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yomitan ocean jumping

We spent most of yesterday in Yomitan. First, some of us went to this place where you pretty much jump about three stories off a cement thingie into the water. Woah.


I don't know what's scarrier. Free falling, or the fact that a 20 foot great white shark was caught in these docks.




This is us taking the plunge.


See that taller section off to the right? Aaron was brave enough to go off it first, then Mark and I, and Doug and Djudji jumped it. Talk about intense. It's one of those things where you're falling, and then you're still falling, and you're like "I am an idiot"...and you're still falling...then you hit, and you're like, "...that was awesome..."



You know there's that saying your mom always says...If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too? And now I'd have to say yes, and that I've actually been there. So that was fun.

Then we checked out this cave. Sadly, a bunch of Japanese, mostly youth, took their lives in this cave rather then fall into the hands of Americans.





Freaky altar.




People will light incense and leave money, paper cranes, and other gifts at the altar.


Pastor Tom's got a sweet video on his blog of Trevor talkin about it. check it!

Then we went to this other cave and had to walk through habu land.








This cave was pretty creepy too. It goes waaaay back and it gets blacker than night and really stale in there. Probably didn't help that my pastor was crouching behind a rock waiting for me to go by. I screamed bloody murder, man. ...Yeah, but again, Tom's got a cool explanation of the history behind this cave, click meeee.

Then we went to this crazy music guy, Nick's house to practice something for something. I was confused. This pretty much sums up how I felt. JK, it was fun.

posted by Haley B @ 3:26 PM