look what i found

this picture is from wikipedia, because our camera is on hiatus right now, but mine looks exactly like this one.

today at the beach.
Chad was torturing a sand crab, and I was really irritated by that. So, while I was trying to ignore Chad and distract Kaiya from watching him, we watched the sand crabs eat blue bubbles, I briefly looked in the ocean and saw this floating right by the shore. I've kind of, sort of been looking out for one for a while, and I was really excited that I found it.
Chad thought I was crazy, for being so excited. He said he couldn't believe that I freaked out about him killing a sand crab to "study" it, but have no problem getting trash out of the ocean. Haha!! While I was cleaning the algae and stuff off of it a guy came up to me and our conversation went something like this:
man: "do you know what that is?"
me: "yeah"
then he quickly said: "can I have it?"
I replied "no, I think I want it."
he said: "I collect these, can I buy it from you?"
of course I asked him how much, but he wasn't really wanting to pay for it, he just thought I was going to give it to him. So I kept it, but in the meantime another guy came up and told me his version of what it was used for and when it was made. He said that Japanese fisherman used to sit in their boats and drink beer all night and get drunk. Then when they were all done with the bottles they'd smash up the glass and use a glass blower, that they had on the boat, to blow them into glass balls. They'd then use thme to hold up their fishing nets. He said that they aren't made anymore, and by the looks of it, this one is 40 years old. I don't know if d he's right but it's kind of a cool thought to think it's been floating int he ocean for forty years.

Both of the guys were really excited about it, so Chad changed his mind about me being a crazy lady afterall.

I looked it up when I got home and this is what wikipedia said.