Golden Week: Last day...Day 35

Day 35 - Wednesday, May 5

Last day of Golden Week! Rachel and I were supposed to visit Iga (I think it's Iga or maybe it's Ige or Isa or something that starts with an I and ends in some kind of vowel) known for it's ninja. Apparently there's some crazy ninja museum there with 'live demonstrations' don't entirely know what that means, but I was prepared to find out. Unfortunately late start yet again. This time I woke up for breakfast checked in with Rachel who sleepily said she would be down in a bit and then went to eat. Her host grandmother and grandfather were down there and served me breakfast and tea and I ate and talked story with then a bit, waiting for Rachel to come down...About an hour later Rachel had yet to come down. It was okay though, her host family is super cool and sweet. They were showing me some family photos and talking about random things. It was pretty funny, because they have such thick Kansai-ben that I couldn't really understand everything they were saying. I'd think they'd say something and turns out I heard them wrong, or I'd ask them to repeat it and they'd dumb it down for me and turns out I was right. All in all a fun experience.

When Rachel came down it was a bit too late to go to Iga, so I went home and skyped my parents for the first time in a long time and went to sleep early for a change. Oh yeah, and updated my blog.