Osaka Time

Well I think I've finally figured out how to post my blogs, but now I have the problem of how to put up pictures...boo to that. Nevertheless we'll march on and eventually I'll decipher a way to post pictures because this place is like nothing I've ever seen. The first night I got in we walked around Dotombori, which is the world famous food district here in Osaka. It was like walking into a neon sign disaster area with huge crab and octopus statues on the side of the buildings trying to scare you into coming in. It was packed with Japanese businessmen coming home from work and Japanese youth (I say youth because we cannot figure out how old these people are by looking at them, some could be 14 while others could be 35) dressed up in crazy gothic and hardcore scenester and emo wear. Just walking around was an assault on the senses as there are sirens constantly flashing, booming soundtracks coming out of restaurants, and flashing neon lights on almost every available foot of space. Needless to say we wandered around in a daze for a good 4 hours just trying to take everything in. When we finally staggered into a restaurant we were almost dead from exhaustion and hunger and it turned out to be a Chinese restaurant of all things, but we were too tired to care. In fact right now I'm still pretty tired from jetlag and all so I'm gonna have to leave it at that. All I can say is that Osaka is incredible and more than I could ever imagine. That and I still miss lp and am counting down the days until she visits :)