Our Trip to Japan

I only had a week off between my intensive classes and the regular semester, so I decided to take a short trip with Hye Sook to Osaka, Japan. My friend Michael lives in the nearby small town of Wakayama, and Hye Sook wanted to check out some restaurants there (in the hopes of incorporating some of the dishes into her OWN restaurant in Korea).

Michael picked us up from the airport and took us to Wakayama. We checked out a park and a castle before Michael began the excruciating process of deciding whether or not to come with us into Osaka that night. He eventually decided to come the next day and meet up with us, so we caught a train.

The next day, Michael didn't end up coming in until almost 3 in the afternoon, so Hye Sook and I lazed around all morning. Then the three of us checked out the History Museum, the Castle, and Namba, a downtown area full of shops, restaurants, casinos, and anything else you could possibly want.

I caught cold early in the trip and that day it really hit me. I was exhausted by the time Michael actually went back to Wakayama, and my cold was so bad that I couldn't sleep. I ended up staying in the whole day on our third day because I felt so crappy, but Hye Sook took a short trip out to see the Korean part of the city and get us dinner.

The next day I was feeling much better, so Hye Sook and I went to a nice park, the zoo, and back to Namba. We even got massages, which were great (but expensive). That last day was the best day because we just kind of wandered around and did whatever struck us.

The next morning we came back to Korea, and I went to the most boring meeting of my entire life--but that's another story all together.

R