Korea

So this is a picture of downtown Namba Osaka that I TOOK! A dragon that Eddie made me take a picture of on the side of a restaurant, the ferris wheel we went on (YES IT WAS HUGE) and the red and blue building is the aquarium, and that was my bed/room on the boat... It was small!! Thats why I look so tired in the other picture but Eddie is smiling so I had to post it since its such a rare event in pictures!








I woke up this morning to the usual sounds of Korea. The fruit and vegetable van driving outside our building with the elderly man yelling in Korean over his intercom, the subway tracks down the street echoing into our room as the subways pass and the noon church bells chimed as the always do. I can also hear the cars in the distance and the occasional people walking below. I also woke up to sunlight for the first time in over a week!!!! I forgot to mention there were no windows on the boat or in our hotel!!! It was frustrating!! They also had no clocks so I would wake up at 3am or 1pm not knowing what time it was!...Its good to be back. The sun is shinning and the room is big enough to breath in. Both the rooms on the boat and it the hotel were muggy and it was difficult to sleep so I had a good sleep last night! We have no money but we have some potatoes, rice, half a bottle of water and one small bag of Yakisoba. I have money in my account but I can barely move today. I took some Vicodine this morning for the first time in months but I needed it. Traveling is very hard on my back. In case it wasn't obvious I made it through immigration just fine so I have another 90 days here! YAY! Thats just enough time to recover from my last trip and get ready for the next one... We are seriously thinking about Thailand. It is a longer trip but it is the same price to fly there as it is to fly to Japan which is amazing!! I'll insert a map later! (I am learning a lot about geography! I knew stuff before but now I REALLY know it seeing as I am going to these places and yesterday I learned exactly where Taiwan was.. I always got that area confused.. I blame the US for my education) So I knitted a 3rd of Eddie's scarf then I found out I wouldn't have enough to finish it because it was too wide so I unraveled it and started over... I'm about a 4th of the way through this one and its quite a bit thinner... today I think I'll cook up some potatoes finish cleaning the house, read and knit! What a wonderful day i have ahead of me! Today is Christmas Eve so its a little strange not to be sitting by a tree or getting ready to eat cream mush with the Sands family but I did make Eddie watch Elf yesterday! I fell asleep after the opening credits as I usually do but its the thought that counts! Anyways I am off to cook, clean, knit and read! YAY!

PS I found some cashews too! I wont have to shop for weeks! haha