And We Followed The Sun Until It Was Tomorrow.

And we followed the sun until it was tomorrow. My feet have landed in Japan. I am 48 hours into my jet lag and not doing all that badly.

The flight was bloody long enough. Bill got me to the airport at 4:30 and I got through customs whithin 10 minutes. Even Iwho loves to watch people could not people watch at that time. Our plane left late from Calgary. I thought sweet, now i don't have as long to wait in San Fran. However, my plane was delayed by one hour and 40 minutes. I waited 5 and 1/2 hours for my 11 and 1/2 hour flight.

At this time I would like United Airlines for putting me in an aisle seat behind the bulkhead. Yea for extra leg room. The extra room came in hand for the left handed six foot six gentle giant they sat in the seat beside me. Let me just say that my one butt cheek is number than the other.
A special thanks to United Airlines for not putting me next to the collicky baby in seat five, or the women who didn't make it to the bathroom to vomit, or the women who was hacking her left and probably her right lung up, or the women who wore the face mask the whole trip.
I would like to also thank the airplane pilot who made our landing in Osaka one of the scariest landings, i have ever experienced. First we bounced on the left wheel and then on the right wheel and then a bit sideways. You know it is kind of scary when the stewardess in the jumpseat across from me screamed the loudest. Thankfully she was quick to jump up and catch my suitcase as it was falling out of the overhead that bounced out.

Jackie was at the gateway to greet me with flowers and tears. She had everything all arranged as she had been waiting most of the day for my arrival.
We took the bus for approximately one hour out of Osaka to Kobe(pronounced Kobay. We arrived and walked 3 minutes to our hotel where we checked in and took off for supper. It was 230 in the morning for me but 6 pm Japan time. We cabbed to a place along the waterfront called Mosaic. It is known for its fine restaraunts and beautiful lit park. It was like Christmas / amusement park. We rode the ferris wheel to get a better night time view of the bay. It was impressive. We sat down for supper at 930 pm I started to fade. I had a fairly good night sleep and then we got up and spent the day in Kobe.
Kobe is most notable for its recovery from the 1995 earthquake that devestated the city. Kobe is ultra modern and being built up more each year. We did a harbour cruise and a ropeway which we call a gondola up the mountain and had lunch at the upper restaruant. By the way i have been here 48 hours and so far no chopsticks were needed. Horaay for me. At 530 we lined up for our bus trip to Onomichi. Jackie had us buy a convenience store packed lunch of sandwhiches and some new treats that i really didn't need to know about. The trip to Onomichi was two and 1/2 hours long. I got to see the red sun and red sunset. It is easy to see why children draw the sun red here.
Thus my first 24 hours was sightseeing in Kobe and finally arriving at Jackies home.

I am going to post this as Jackie's computer tends to jam tart out so I don't want to lose what i have written.
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