Surviving the Boat trip and Osaka Day one...

I'd like to celebrate this moment in my life with a few seconds of silence....

Ok, so it feels like its been a really long day and It has.  This little trip of ours (about 9 people who live at the Kaikan) started with a 12 hour boat ride on the Sunflower Ferry from Beppu to Osaka.  We left Beppu port at 6.30 on Thursday night... and survived the night by distracting ourselves with various games of UNO, drinking on the deck of the ship, and playing "sleep in a room full of sickly, snoring old people." 

Thats right, I'm not so clever with words at this moment because all I can remember in my trip up to now old people, old people and old people.  

We arrived in Osaka at 6am this morning and checked into the Hotel Raizan.  Some of us took naps, but some of us decided to venture out for some breakfast.  While wandering the streets of 動物園前 we began to wonder "why are there so many old people?"  Maybe it was simply just that time of day when old people venture out into the market place, but seriously, of the hundreds of people we came across, there was nothing but old people.  Some were playing cards and drinking beer on the streets, some were walking around dazed, confused and drunk, and some were angry armed with bicycles.  All of theme were at least in their 50's and 60's.

So of all the adventures ive had today, like avoiding drinking water because of yellow ice at one unnamed restaurant to seeing a crazed woman laughing to her self saying "Mee chan!! Mee Chann!" the most memorable thing I can't get out of my head today is the sound of Jesse's old person impression.( think of Jurassic park)  Oh and not to mention feeling dirty earlier.  I was just about to take a nap, but I had the urge to check out what channels my room's tv had. Apparently, our hostel includes porn channels.  I saw what i didn't need to see, flipped to a family friendly channel and turned of the tv.  I went to sleep only to wake up feeling dirty.  ahhhh

Osaka!