Playing underwater

That night, we had had a lot discussion about what to do with our Sunday, before all of us headed home. That part of Japan is actually quite hard to get to, and we felt like we had done a lot of things already in Kanazawa. We decided in the end to stay in town, and so we started Sunday at a very lesurely pace. We went and bought Cori and Len cameras, and then headed to the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art. We only paid the minimum fee to go, because there was only one exhibit we really wanted to see. Dont we look like we are underwater in all of these photos? But entirely dressed? Its all a big optical illusion, but one of the most fun I have seen. In the centre courtyard of the museum (which is shaped like a giant donut) there is, what appears to be a swimming pool. You have the ladders to get in, the edging, and from afar, it looks filled with water. Even if you look directly down, it looks filled with water. What it is, is about 2 feet down, there is plexiglass, and the pool is only filled with water for the top two feet. You can see people walking around inside the pool below you! We also went down underneath the pool, and it looks like you are inside the pool. The walls are the right colour, and its even a little curved. It was pretty darn awesome. We spent hours playing around, sitting on the floor and taking photos! Cori and I pretended to be sleeping, and Len tried to play dead, while cute Japanese kids laughed at us. It was the best fun!