I mentioned in a blog post a few days ago that recently hubby and I had a dear friend come to visit us. For fun, we rode the ferry across the Puget Sound to see the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton.
I’ve always known the Shipyard is there. And I’ve always just assumed that it’s an active shipyard, currently building aircraft carriers and battleships. Afterall, this was where the damaged warships from the Pearl Harbor bombing were brought during World War II. It was here that those ships (declared to be sunk by the Japanese) were repaired, restored, and launched back out into the war.
When hubby and I and our friend arrived in Bremerton, we found it to be a sleepy, non-happening town. Nobody was around. And not much of anything was going on. We made our way over to the free mini museum.
The entrance to the museum was around the side, so we followed the path down the secluded side of the building.
Upon arriving at the entrance door, a sign on the door boldly declared: “No food or drink inside the museum.” As I mentioned in the earlier blog post, our friend had purchased gourmet mini cheesecakes for each of us (as we had strolled through Pike Place Market on our way down to the ferry dock). There were only 3 of us, but the price was cheaper if 4 were purchased. So, our friend had purchased a 4th mini cheesecake.
As we stood at the entrance door to the free mini museum, box in hand with the 1 leftover cheesecake, our friend declared: “We’ve got to eat the last cheesecake! Right here, right now.”
So we stepped over to the side, next to a large glass wall of tinted windows, to finish the last little cheesecake. And how, exactly, do you split into thirds a small cheesecake, when you have no utensils? You just grab a piece and go for it! Which is what we did.
Hubby and I each pulled a chunk of cheesecake off, and popped it into our mouths, while our friend polished off the remainder. Needless to say, we had cheesecake all over our fingers! And of course, we needed a sip of water to wash it all down!
It was quite the scene … but nobody was around. So it was all ok. And the older couple who exited the museum as we chowed down our bite of Raspberry cheesecake didn’t seem to mind.
That completed, we then entered the museum. (I’m sure we must have been quite the entertainment for the bored museum worker at the front desk.)
As the museum worker explained to us the different sections of the museum, I happened to notice, out of the corner of my eye, a large glass lecture room … full of students! … in class, which was currently in progress!
In fact, as we stood there at the front desk, a guest speaker for that very class showed up and headed on into the class.
Much to my dismay, it slowly dawned on me that all the desks of all the students were facing the direction in which the three of us had just been standing outside, stuffing our faces with cheesecake! And in fact, the professor giving the lecture had been just on the other side of that large glass wall of tinted windows!
While we had thought we were standing in a completely secluded corner outside, with absolutely nobody around … in reality, we were the background entertainment, directly behind the professor, in front of a class of 30-40 people!!
Talk about embarrassing!
We all three had a good laugh about it!
The free mini museum was underwhelming (as all the online reviews had indicated), yet it was great entertainment for the couple of hours we had before the ferry came back again. All three of us really enjoyed it! And I learned quite a bit!
Although the Naval Shipyard no longer actively builds aircraft carriers and warships (hasn’t done so for several decades), it is still busy with refurbishing, refitting, and updating aircraft carriers (the USS Nimitz was currently in dock being worked on), as well as recycling whatever it is that needs to be recycled from the nuclear submarines.
Outside the museum was a delightful little waterfront park, featuring the most interesting fountains I have ever seen! The fountains were shaped to look like the top section of a submarine, and at timed intervals water would burst out of the top of each fountain, giving the impression of a submarine breaching the surface. It was really cool! We all really enjoyed the fountains!
So … the takeaway lesson of this blog post is: You never know who is watching!
As you go throughout your life, most of the time it will seem like nobody is really watching. For example – working from home. Nobody sees. Nobody knows if you’re really working.
But you never know who is watching!
Or perhaps in the grocery store. Or anywhere for that matter. The times when it feels like nobody is really watching … somebody might just be watching after all!
Make it a point to live your life in such a way so that you will have nothing to be ashamed of, if you happen to discover that that situation where you thought you were completely alone and no one knew what you were doing … somebody might be watching after all! In fact, lots of somebody’s might be watching!
