Sarahboo
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- Feb 28, 2007
Next we stopped for a delicious lunch down in the basement of a building.
And we walked off to find Nishiki Market
For reasons I don't understand, I have no pictures until we get back to Dotonbori that night - but Nishiki was fantastic and if you like street food and markets, it's worth putting on your to-do list.
By then it was mid-afternoon, and Kyoto isn't really known for its nightlife, so we hopped on a train back to Osaka and grabbed some grilled crab legs on Dotonbori Street:
I loved this art:
We decided to take one of Tombori River Cruises. Pretty cheap, but also quite short. It was still fun.
And then, despite the panic I endured in Odaiba, I agreed to ride on this beast - the Don Quixote ferris wheel:
Ok, they're round cars and you enter on like the 4th floor of the Don Quixote. Then, when you're inside, the whole car flips around and suddenly you're 100% locked into this fishbowl looking out over the city.
I HATED EVERY SECOND OF THIS. THE SOUNDS. OH MY GOD THE CREAKING METAL SOUNDS.
The first time we rotated around and it sounded like the whole contraption was falling apart, I turned to Chris, offered a piece of gum and said "Fresh breath for Jesus?"
I mean, we obviously lived, but even Chris thought it sounded like it was going to break apart into a million pieces.
After that, we had ourselves of Okonomiyaki - much like my experience with takoyaki which we had our first night in Osaka, I liked it fine but I wanted to like it more.
We have 3 teenagers, we need no more stir fried hormone, thank you very much:
We ended the night at Yuki's bar - but this time we drank beer so we could not be Yuki'd again.
We were the only ones there for a long time, and just had the best time talking with Yuki as much as we could. We sang Wild Horses together about a dozen times.
And, now I will show you the world's most intense sobriety test. How we managed to survive it the first night I will never know.
I PRESENT TO YOU: THE ALLEY BATHROOM FOR ALL OF THE BARS WHERE YUKI'S BAR IS LOCATED:
It was probably.. no DEFINITELY.. more of a sobriety test for me than for Chris which might explain why I was in much better shape than him at the end of our first visit.
The first time I walked in I said "Oh, God.. but do I sit frontwards or backwards?!?!"
I figured it out, and praised that a) there were handrails, and b) I had hand sanitizer with me.
We found our way home much easier this time, and locked the door of our apartment and everything, like champs.
I cannot believe our trip is almost over. We only have one more day in Osaka and then our travel day back home. I'm going to miss writing this trip report.
Maybe I'll just tack on a report for Mexico since we went 3 weeks after we got home when I'm done if y'all don't mind. I want to remember and relive that trip also.
And we walked off to find Nishiki Market
For reasons I don't understand, I have no pictures until we get back to Dotonbori that night - but Nishiki was fantastic and if you like street food and markets, it's worth putting on your to-do list.
By then it was mid-afternoon, and Kyoto isn't really known for its nightlife, so we hopped on a train back to Osaka and grabbed some grilled crab legs on Dotonbori Street:
I loved this art:
We decided to take one of Tombori River Cruises. Pretty cheap, but also quite short. It was still fun.
And then, despite the panic I endured in Odaiba, I agreed to ride on this beast - the Don Quixote ferris wheel:
Ok, they're round cars and you enter on like the 4th floor of the Don Quixote. Then, when you're inside, the whole car flips around and suddenly you're 100% locked into this fishbowl looking out over the city.
I HATED EVERY SECOND OF THIS. THE SOUNDS. OH MY GOD THE CREAKING METAL SOUNDS.
The first time we rotated around and it sounded like the whole contraption was falling apart, I turned to Chris, offered a piece of gum and said "Fresh breath for Jesus?"
I mean, we obviously lived, but even Chris thought it sounded like it was going to break apart into a million pieces.
After that, we had ourselves of Okonomiyaki - much like my experience with takoyaki which we had our first night in Osaka, I liked it fine but I wanted to like it more.
We have 3 teenagers, we need no more stir fried hormone, thank you very much:
We ended the night at Yuki's bar - but this time we drank beer so we could not be Yuki'd again.
We were the only ones there for a long time, and just had the best time talking with Yuki as much as we could. We sang Wild Horses together about a dozen times.
And, now I will show you the world's most intense sobriety test. How we managed to survive it the first night I will never know.
I PRESENT TO YOU: THE ALLEY BATHROOM FOR ALL OF THE BARS WHERE YUKI'S BAR IS LOCATED:
It was probably.. no DEFINITELY.. more of a sobriety test for me than for Chris which might explain why I was in much better shape than him at the end of our first visit.
The first time I walked in I said "Oh, God.. but do I sit frontwards or backwards?!?!"
I figured it out, and praised that a) there were handrails, and b) I had hand sanitizer with me.
We found our way home much easier this time, and locked the door of our apartment and everything, like champs.
I cannot believe our trip is almost over. We only have one more day in Osaka and then our travel day back home. I'm going to miss writing this trip report.
Maybe I'll just tack on a report for Mexico since we went 3 weeks after we got home when I'm done if y'all don't mind. I want to remember and relive that trip also.