Picking up where Joe left off, we jumped on a bus ride out to Sannomiya Station in Kobe, a 70 minute ride that took us past 2 ferris wheels and the Sega building (Joe was so excited).
It was so so tiring though, after the longhaul flight i just wanted to sleep, or eat then sleep..
We met up with Becky after a bit of a wander outside the station in the rain, and after meeting her we chucked our stuff in some lockers and went to a bar called the Polo Dog for food and drink. Nothing traditionally japanese yet, just the language barrier :) Met several of her friends, Eugene Suki and Dwayne, who also teach english and are Canadian, very fun and friendly.
Finally got home between 10 and 11, which for us was like 2am (and we had been up since 5:30am!) and got to sleep on some interesting futons in Becky's lounge - hard but fair...
After a good sleep in yesterday we wandered down to Tanigami ( the suburb where Becky lives) and had some kare - japanese curry. It's pretty much curry powder curry, and reminded me of Dad's curry sausages and rice, yum :) After that we went bowling with Becky and her japanese friend Ryota, who was quite frankly awesome at bowling. Another guy, Kazu, joined us later on and he too was freaken amazing. Made our skillz look drastically bad even though we played pretty much the best games of our lives...
Had a quiet night at home with all 5 of us having pizza and then watching Hot Shots Part Deux with japanese subtitles, damn that's a glorious movie. It was also amusingly relevant for today, what with the bumbling moron of a president and the situation in Iraq. Poignant.
Today we missioned about on the train system on our own, Becky having to go to work, and went to Sannomiya for a bit of window shopping. We then headed back to Shinkobe, which is the train stop between Tanigami and Sannomiya, and went up to the Nunobiki Herb Park. This meant a super awesome gondola ride up the hill that gave us spectacular views of Kobe, and when we get our laptop to the internets we will show you all the lovely pictures :) Had a buffet lunch at the top, and then wandered down the hill through the park, it smelled delicious and herby and was quite peaceful. If it had been in New Zealand we're fairly certain it would have a luge ride down the hill but thankfully it's not :)
Also on this trip, WE SAW A FREAKEN SNAKE - it was green and just hanging out in the herby bushes. Took pics of course. We tried to get closer to get a better pic but it got scared and ran away. Or possibly slithered... Quite glad it didn't go into attack mode... But yeah, first wild snake experience, what fun!
Now we've found an internet cafe so have been able to do this big old update.. Hopefully will get another done before Hiroshima, but otherwise will write around then :)
Tonight we're meeting up with Becky and her friends for dinner somewhere, probably sushi, we asked for a good japanese meal :) Until then we're going to hang out in this insanely huge timezone style place with games for africa, yay!
peace out
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