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Day 20/Last Night in Fukuyama

{ August 18, 2007 @ 4:15 am } · { Food, Fukuyama }
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•    Morning
o    Today was a late morning.. I woke up at around 8:30, but we left around 10:00.  Ena, her sister, and I headed to a small fishing town to do some siteseeing
•    Small fishing town
o    We arrived around 11ish and decided to walk around a bit, do some shopping, and just see the sites.  I found a smallish kenzan for one dollar and decided to buy it haha… just sooo expensive.  We walked through a shaded shopping street and Ena bought some presents for her parents.  We then took this ski lifting ish thing up a mountain to get a great view of the ocean and of the town.  It was rather short but by the time we got to the top we were all rather hot.  We walked around some more at the top of the mountain, taking in the sites, taking pictures, even getting some manago icecream… and then we headed to a small museum.  The museum seemed a bit out of place because the pictures were by Japanese artists, but of france… interesting…but weird.  We then saw a small temple on the mountain which was beautiful.  We all got fortunes at the temple and I got one giving me good luck of some sort… excellent
o    For lunch we headed to this famous ramen place where we all ordered a large bowl of ramen…. Delicious…not especially nutricious, but who cares.  We then walked around some more, bought some famous hakata orange juice (tasty, sour, refreshing)… and headed back to the house.
•    Dinner
o    We all went out to dinner at this seafood restaurant… another meal of not knowing exactly what I’m eating, but fully enjoying it ensued.  There was tons of food, but lots of small portions so it wasn’t overfilling.  I could go on and on about food in japan, but no doubt it gets boring, so I’ll stop there.
•    Last night
o    We got back to Ena’s grandmother’s house and I packed my suitcase, but I no realize that I forgot a small plug for my laptop (not to worry when I get home I have another one, but for the last week internet shall be a minor inconvenience).  Ena and I played wii sports for an hour or two because the bowling game was so addicting… it was hilarious, but about midnight by the time we finished.  I heaed off to bed… and sleep soon followed