Day Seven-- Nagasaki + Osaka

I woke up at 6. But no one else got up until 8. =__________=

I went downstairs and took a shower, and then watched a program about an island off the coast of New Zealand. Apparently it's the happiest nation in the world. But I just saw people in palm-frond-houses eating weird crab things, working at 24 hour markets, and swatting the flies away.

I packed my bags and gave them my gifts as we left. Apparently my family forgot that there was supposed to be a mutual gift-giving thing, so they freaked.

We drove to the Nagasaki History and Culture Museum. They had an exhibit on Egypt.

Yeah. It was interesting. They kept trying to buy me stuff.

Then we went to a shrine for about 5 minutes before heading over to Chinatown.

I tried Nagasaki champon. I was gross. So I pigged out on fried rice.

Chinatown was kinda spiffeh.

Then we went shopping. Hikaru linked arms with me and wouldn't let go. She dragged me all over.

She was intent on "strengthening our bond", so she bought matching necklaces for us. Oh, I'm sorry. She bought her necklace. She made me buy mine. Incidentally, I have the same necklace at home, bracelet form. I got it for my fifth grade graduation.

(I found a shirt that said "Love is confontable love full")

I wanted to go to a CD store and Naichau Kamo, but I was pulled away. ;______;

We got to the station and met up with Azusa and Tiffany. We ran into almost EVERYONE at Tower Records. I FINALLY bought my single.

(BTW, Yowamushi is made of pure win. I hate Shige, but Risa rocked it. Hotaru-Kokoro-duet-much?)

We grouped outside and said goodbye. Josh was crying, which startled all of us. Even Hikaru cried, which was awkward. She hugged me really tightly and sobbed "I love you!" which made me feel bad, because I kinda found her annoying. ^^;

We took a bunch of photos.

BTW, there was this random woman who kept on lurking around us. She first asked Adam and me, "doko e ikimasuka?" (where are you going?) and I replied "Osaka" around the same time Adam blurted out nervously, "No, we're just friends!" which won a spot in my weirdest Japan moments list.

But this woman wouldn't leave.

We rode the train for a few hours before arriving at the hostel at 10 PM.

(The guys got a huge room with a shower. The other group of girls got a four-room suite, a bathroom, a TV, and a phone. Well, at least we got beds.)

By then, we were starving and exhausted, and were getting hyper/silly/moronic. I filmed it. ;D

Rachel wanted to go the "legendary" Mos Burger at least once, so we headed down to the nearest chain. Which was 20 minutes away.

So we rand through Osaka late at night and acted stupid.

The 8th floor of the hostel is haunted, you know.

We returned at, like, 10:45 with NO CHAPERONES. xD Wewtt!

We sat in the lobby, ate Mos Burgers and ice cream until we all passed out without even changing into PJs. In fact, my roommates and I only got as far as taking off our pants to let our legs breathe. xD