Hello from Japan. Yep another trip. (This has been a rough couple of months - London, China, New York and now Japan.) This should be a good trip...but tiring, as usual. I arrived yesterday after a 14 hour flight, a one hour subway ride, a 2.5 hour ride on the bullet train and then a short taxi ride. With the 14 hour time change, I woke up at about 4am.
Boredom set in at about 6am so stumbled down to the swim pool for a few laps in the pool. I blearily signed in and took my dip. When I woke up a bit and looked at the sheet that I signed, I noticed that the price of the swim was 2100 yen about $21 (I thought that it has said 210 yen). YIKES! That will be my last swim of the evening.
Went out with a couple of Japanese colleagues tonight. They took us to a local (meaning no english) sushi restaurant in downtown Osaka. Was great sushi. On the way home, we passed a Pachinko gambling venue. As I had never been in one and I like put the occasional nickel in the slots, we went in. OMG...the loudest place I have ever been in. For 1000 Yen (about $10), the machine spits out about 500 little metal balls. Imgaine 100+ machine all dinging, clanging and smacking of little gray balls. I lost all my little balls in about 3 minutes. OK...now I can say I have played Pachinko ...and don't need to do this again.
Scrapping...nope. No time. Here is a layout I did a couple of weeks ago..when I came home from my last trip:
This was scrapped using MCA Designs Bday kit.
1 comment:
Oh man it sounds like a lovely trip so far. Can't believe the swim...can't believe they charge you to swim! But then again I am such a sheltered child. :)
Oh my...he took R on his own? He is brave. Hopefully the return flight will be a better one.
Hope the rest of the trip is a good one.
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