I lied. Nagoya wasn't very interesting. I found the place rather boring. We didn't actually arrive at Nagoya until 5pm. And when we got there, everything was closed. booooooo....

So, all we did was wander around aimlessly and look from the outside. We did however, see Oasis 21. Which is pretty much a park, and upstairs they've got this.. water feature that's suspended on top of it. It looks like.. a spaceship. The whole thing was rather..futuristic. I'll have to post the photos of it when I get back to Australia.. It's funky though.

I wanted to go on the ferris wheel when we were there, but unfortunately, both Tina and Garry are afraid of heights. And Choco flat out refused my offer. So I had a sook and continued walking along the park with them. Japan has this thing about building parks between a major street in the city (usually a really swanky one) and putting up random pieces of art, fountains and patches of grass around. It was nice to walk there at night though - save the few homeless people that stayed out.

The main reason we were walking along the park was because we wanted to go see the antique market that Nagoya had.. unfortunately it was closed by the time we navigated our way there! We found a temple though.. and I was wandering around randomly by myself and when I returned to the temple.. my friends were gone. So I thought I'd do some more wandering. got a phonecall adn realised I was going in the opposite direction from them. Found a really cool second hand clothes shop.. though the prices rivalled that of a normal store. I have this weird phobia about second hand clothes and stuffs. See, it's not because I7m a snob or anyhting. I'm scared I'll be haunted. What if I'm wearing a dead persons clothes, t hey find out and come to haunt me>? The very thought freaks me out. So I usually try not to buy anything from those stores..

I've gone on a tangent and don't konw what I was talking about again..

But yeh, not much to Nagoya. Though I'm sure had I gone during the day it would've been a different story. Went home from Nagoya and just.. hung out. We had mos burger though at 1230pm. How bad is that? Don't usually eat late, but that was the second night in a row I've eaten past 12. Bad habits.

Unforutnately, because we stayed up so late, none of us got up at our appointed time of 9am to make it to the Kyoto festival. We got there at 1230-1pm-ish and when we got htere, they were making a mini pilgrimmage from one shrine to the next. So we decided to join in. We were following the masses, and somehow, Tina and Gary decided to turn right, away from the actual pilgrimage and kept walking.. Choco and I decided to defy Tina (we saw her and Gary argue about which way to go.. Tina won) and decided to rebel against her wishes of us following her. So we continued with the rest of the pilgrims and walked straight. Tina didn't look happy. But we thought we'd do it for Gary. lol we were just being shit heads.

Fortunately, we chose the right way to go, because we ended up seeing the whole procession and walking along the parade. We also ended up making it there before the other two! By the time we got there we were pretty famished and decided to eat without them.. Good idea because they didn't arrive until some 30mins later. By that stage, Choco and I had pretty much tried all the food from all the different stalls and Tina was not happy! lol she thought we'd wait for her but they took ages. Garry didn't look happy either but I think it was most likely Tina was sooking about starvation and what not. lol

But good thing we ate first, because as soon as Tina nad Garry came in.. about 1000 other people decided to join! So there were crazy lines everywhere!!

Ok. Had a 10 minutes interval. I was helping a Taiwanese man figure out the weather for the Kanazawa area. He seemed absolutely lovely. Poor fellow, his english wasn't that great but he seemed really happy I was able to help him. He's on holidays too!

Better wrap it up. But we pretty much just joined in witht he festivities and ate. we crossed the river again, and ran across some stepping stones that were placed across the river to pass along the water. Took photos, went looking for a toilet for Tina and found a ￥100 store! IT was awesome!! I bought heaps of cool thigns in there and had fun walking around and just lokoing at crazy Japanese inventions and tiem savers. Was pretty cool.. left with some cookie cutters, chopsticks, socks and erasers.

We headed home after that, and Train made us spag bol for dinner.. yum!! And now we're waiting for our laundry and going sleep. We want an early start!! hopefully anyways, but we never do. Punctuality is not our strong point. and we're all dawdlers.. Except Tina. But she's stuck with 3 dawdlers.. so we win lol

ok. Well, we're off again to kyoto tomorrow.. YAY!!

ok times running out. seeya!