Meet Me Halfway

We realized our Ultimate Expedition of Destiny has reached it's halfway point! It's kind of sad but the rest of the journey has the best parts including Kyoto, where we're leaving tomorrow, Nagoya, with the cosplay world vup or something like it there during our stay, and T O K Y O. Need I say more?

But well, I just decided to have a few laughs on the photos we've taken so far and... found myself wanting to add them here also, so here you go: ENJOY.

Btw, those who're here for SRZ BZNZ; be gone. You should know by now just not to read my shit.


The photo breaking the eyes is A CAT. I was looking over my shoulder and suddenly it popped up from out of nowhere. So I always laugh so hard when I see this pic.

It's and ESCALATOR. In a PARK. Only in Japan.

This was my... temporary system when I had slight problems with my adapter.

We found a RUISLEIPÄ-package somewhere IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE -we were literally halfway up a mountain, some 15 kilometres away from Beppu. So it of course merited a photo.

We boiled eggs there. On a mountain. In steam, coming from a hot spring.

Moomin Cafe! Everything was so cute there but expensive so we only ate something small (=the head of Moomintroll with ice cream :D)

We answered some elementary kids' questions in the Peace Park of Hiroshima and got these as payment n__n (count them and you can see how many groups came to us asking those questions..... It took a while).

J-Hoppers Hiroshima; "I am beer machine. And you?" made us laugh so hard. Also the smaller comments like "I am beer", "almost beer" and "not beer" were enjoyable... 

 

The ugliest fish in the history of ugly fish. LIKE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?

 

OUR PILLOWS in Osaka. Lol Im just cracking up with these pictures  myself XD

 

This one was cute, on the roof of Osaka Floating Garden were locks with the names of married couples~

 

Osaka Castle. I was prompted by Mia. Solution:

 

This sign made me laugh in Nara -do you need to be warned that a wild animal might eat your thinks if you give them to it? Obviously, in Japan, you do.

 

Osaka Castle (or rather the park surrounding it) and a HUGE-ASS cicada. It was like the size of my thumb. But fatter.

 This better keep you entertained for a while so you're welcome. I had a laugh so yeah all is fine.

Spa World

Yesterday we went shopping to Dotonbori, and bought SHOES. Okay I bought only one pair but I love them to bits! Mine are the ones on the right, Mia bought two pairs and a handbag WHICH IS PINK inside!

Then, well, we came back to our hotel and ate takoyaki (...again) and started for SPA WORLD! It was made of awesome, just like we had predicted. Omg. I was speechless when entering the spa-area. GO CHECK THE PICTURES ON THE WEBSITE and fall in love and come to Osaka. (We were on the Europe side as it's for women on odd months, for men on even ones and vice versa on the Asian side.)

AND.

On the European side.

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THERE WAS AN AREA TITLED "FINLAND" WITH SAUNA AND "LAKE WATER" XDDD

Like, if that's not MADE OF WIN I don't know what is! We were running between the lake and sauna and laughing at directing the distraught locals who went for the low-temperature sauna (probably not even a real one -I think it has to be over 70 degrees to actually be a sauna?) and then were shocked as the water was cold, not that wonderful temperature of 40 degrees celcius.

AND. I have to say this.

It was only 1000yen, which means UNDER 10 EUROS. IN TOTAL.

We're going again tomorrow. End of conversation.

But moving on to today (unless you wish to hear a tribute to Spa World). We went to the park near Osaka Castle and actually hanged out! We were just sitting there with our high-brow AMPM konbini onigiris' and reading manga or whatever. So wonderful *---* It was warm but not too hot and oh yes we so need to do this more.

Today we're still going out to eat somewhere (preferably soon, as I am hungry kthxbye) but we've yet to decide where~

But tomorrow it's day in Spa World and evening in Dotonbori, probably.

Lazy Osaka

Some may have noticed the lack of entries during the last week or so. We arrived to Osaka on Tuesday and I have a trump card of THE INTERNET WASN'T WORKING. Well, maybe it was working and we were just  a bit lazy. I won't concede to anything because we had a REASON.

Well, nothing of especial interest happened during the first days here, just you know, hanging around IN OSAKA and in Dotonbori (the local shopping district we're visiting again today!), visited one of the worlds largest aquariums, Osaka Floating Garden, Nara aso.

Like, no biggie.

Well anyway.

On Wednesday we went to the aquarium. It had 14 floors. Enough said.

On Thursday we went to Osaka Floating Garden. It was architecturally one of a kind. Enough said.

Yesterday, Friday, we were in Nara and visited the shrines (although we refused to pay the entrence fee to most of them -we'd be pennyless by now if we hadn't, so we just hanged around in the area) and this one with the HUGE-ASS BUDDHA. And with my uncanny explanatory abilities it just might be better to introduce you to the place through an actual photograph.

FYI, the name of the temple was Tōdai-ji and the height of that Buddha is just short of 15m. It was HUGE. Who the hell had the thought process and materials to make it during the EIGHTH CENTURY?

Other than that there were about half-a-million smaller shrined but we didn't visit (did happily pay 500yen to see this Buddha though) and tame deer everywhere.

I wanted to add videos (mainly of the Pacific Ocean -part of the aquarium...) but the internet is so slow that after waiting for 45 minutes for it to load the friggin vid, I gave up and decided I'make the videos public later.

Also the explanations on this entry are bad. I know. But we're leaving in a second to GO SHOPPING and then to OSAKA SPAWORLD *wwwwww*