The museum

I took the boys to the Prefectural Museum today.  I had read about it online, and thought we'd have a nice time walking around.  It was alot smaller than we thought and took us less than an hour to walk through it.  In that short time, I was reprimanded twice for taking pictures.  The first time was in a room that did not allow flash photography, so I got the guide running up to me saying "NO FRASH!", the second time was in the main hall and I took a picture of a boat exhibit.  The second guide was ultra serious about his job and told me no pictures by giving me the crossed arms "NO" sign and pointing to my camera.  I apologized and thought it was done.  Nope, he took me around the main exhibit hall and pointed to where I could take pictures, where I was not allowed to use my "frash" and where I could take pictures of the kids in front of the exhibits, but not the exhibits themselves.  Even though these guys were rather stern, they were polite, which is the norm here.  If we were in the states, there would have been all kinds of attitude and rudeness.  The boys enjoyed some of the exhibits, like the skeletons and boats, but didn't much care for the pottery exhibits.  The little touch and learn room was kind of neat and they got play a bit.  All in all, it was a fun time.