kobe

whew! i am surprised that i am even remotely genki this morning after this weekend. exhaustion aside, the weekend was fantastic and completely worth the 9+ hours it took us to get there!
cars, trains, trains cars - being stow-aways on the express train and trying to stretch our yen.
kobe was brilliant - such a cool city with tons of fun areas to walk around - chinatown, the harbour, the cable-car up into the hills behind the city. the weather was perfect (though hot!) and the weekend was filled with eating, drinking, sightseeing, and football watching. saturday night out till 5am...too many vodka/redbulls, sweating it out on the dance floor...wandering the streets as the sun is coming up...asleep by 6 and have 10am check-out time not even enter into my head...until 9:52 sunday morning when i suddenly woke up, exhausted, hungover after less than 4 hours sleep...realizing we had to be out of the room in 8 minutes. grand. a mad teeth-brushing and shoving clothes into our packs...needless to say sunday was a bit of a write-off...including a 3 hour train journey and then 6 hour drive. i was asleep before my head hit the pillow when i finally was able to climb into my own bed - around 1am last night. i'm at shogakkou today and am desperately trying to be genki with my 4-nenseis. surprisingly they're lifting my spirits and the day is going well. (plus it's absolutely amazing weather outside - lucky lindsay gets to spend it on the beach...)
anywhoo...tanoshikatta!!!