The Egg Zoo

So I have apparently become accustomed to the strange combination of things that Okinawa pairs together.... Wine & Tea, for example.... because I didn't even bat an eye when we went to what I now call the "Egg Zoo" last weekend.  It is sort of commonplace for there to be animals around the food here, I guess.  The farmer's market I used to frequent had lots of stray cats roaming through the market and a caged monkey-looking thing.  But this place is definitely over the top!

I had tried to find this place once when I first got to the island but got lost.  This time we drove straight to it. Hmm. :)  Anyway, it is sort of off the beaten path but it is a really nice facility!  It is basically a really, REALLY yummy bakery, a mini zoo, and an fresh egg production plant all rolled into one. Odd, but it works. 

So we started out by checking out all the animals, and Wyatt had a lot of fun running around checking out the llamas, parrots, pigs, rabbits, iguanas, the list goes on and on.  They even had monkeys.  One monkey thought Wyatt was going to feed him, and when he realized that wasn't going to happen he started shaking the door of the cage which was slamming back and forth pretty good. It was locked, but it was pretty funny - this monkey was MAD!  Wyatt's face was priceless!

After that, we hit up the bakery. It was really, really hard to decide what to get - everything looked so good!  The cream puffs were AMAZING!  We also bought three different types of pudding/custard type things, a small chocolate cake, and a boatload of eggs.  I have never seen so many eggs in my life!  I really like this place because the bakery products were as close to French/American as I have been able to find here.  Most of the Japanese bakeries and desserts are a lot more dense than in America, so everything ends up tasting like cardboard to me because it seems really dry.  But this place... YUM!  We'll definitely be back!