The past two days have been great work and great fun. Despite Doug and Jake getting wakizashi (Japanese short swords) at Toudaiji, Wes’s chinsuko addiction has progressed to chinsuko throwing violence. Yesterday while taking what was supposed to be a quick, twenty-minute walk to and through Fushimi Inari Taisha, Sarah wandered off on her own, as she often does, and sparked a search that made us eventually an hour late for dinner. The youth hostel owner was kind enough not to ninja us to death though.
Today we went to Osaka. We did a lot of shopping and Doug, Jake, Wes, Sarah and I all went to a restaurant that served Okonomiyaki, a fantastic Japanese food. We celebrated Tanabata at a Japanese temple tonight and then met up with Sadie McDowell, surprisingly unrelated to Jason McDowell and yet equally intellectual. We came back to the hostel and had a fantastic ofuro, as we have had every night. Finally, Elizabeth just learned to burp.
This trip is fantastic.
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