Exciting Trip to Zamami Island

For Memorial Day weekend, we took a trip to Zamami Island, which is in the Kerama Island chain. We took a ferry boat from the Tomari Port in Naha and it took about an hour. Zamami island was a beautiful place with gorgeous waters, a charming village, and a bizarre little hotel. Our weather was not very cooperative- it rained almost the entire time! We were disappointed, but we didn't let it stop us from seeing the island and having fun at the beach. The most exciting thing that happened occured only a couple of hours after we arrived. The boys were playing around on the dock and Logan slipped in the rain and fell. He split his ear wide open! Seriously, it looked like someone had snipped his ear apart with a pair of scissors. We debated going home on the next ferry, but finally Shane decided to stitch it up himself. Luckily, he had brought a first aid kit that contained sutures, lidocaine and other necessary supplies. All went well with the stitches and we ended up having a great weekend.


These adorable shisha were sitting on a ledge in the village. They are made out of broken pieces of terracotta roof tiles and sea shells. So cute!

Here is Logan's ear after he fell and split it open.

Shane preparing to suture. As you can see in this picture, there was no furniture in our hotel room, other than a small table. For sleeping, there were a few thin mats to put on the floor. Three years ago when we first moved here, it seemed really exotic and kind of fun to sleep on the floor at various hotels. But now, it doesn't seem so fun. It just feels like a hard wood floor.

Shane pressed his friend Brady, a dentist, into service to help him suture the wound. Thus the two pairs of gloved hands. I got assigned to hold a flashlight to provide adequate light while Shane stitched. Looking pretty good! Shane did a remarkable job with the stitches! Unfortunately, having stitches meant that Logan couldn't get in the ocean for the entire weekend. Bummer.

Logan all bandaged up and ready to go out for dinner.

The boys and their friend, Denver, hanging out in Zamami village.

We ate at several quaint, yummy restaurants on the island. Above is Dylan's meal of grilled eel over rice with Miso soup.
This was the van driven by the hotel manager. He picked us up at the port and drove us to the beach and around the island. It supposedly sat eight people, but at one point we had it stuffed with over 25 people! So much for any seat belt laws....
Savannah and her friends climbing on rocks at the beach.