Hello everyone! Guess what? We finally slept until a normal time today! We went to bed at 9pm and slept until 7am! Hoorah! Anyway, we are in Kyoto now. I am super amazed at Jeph's skills at navigating the Japanese transit system. He was able to get us safely from Osaka to Kyoto with as little transfers and little amount of money possible. Why am I surprised, I knew I married a smart man! This blog will be short since yesterday was spent traveling and packing ba...

Thanks to jet lag, we woke up super early our first morning in Osaka (and if you can tell from the time stamp on this post, we did it again the next morning). The trains don't start running until 5:30am and we waited for the hostel's 9:30 tour. And we thought we wouldn't get up early enough, ha! We walked around and ate at McDonald's for breakfast. Okay, you know how classy Panera bread is with its nice booths, internet, recharging stations for your electronics, ...

Hello everyone! You can breathe easy now, as you can see we made it safely to our hostel in Osaka (well, technically it's Fukushima, which is part of Osaka). We are on the fourth floor here at the J-Hoppers Hostel and boy is it a lot warmer than I thought it would be! Could have been all the running around with luggage, too. Should have practiced that with Helen Rindsberg's suitcase races: guaranteed to get you prepped for running around Japan with luggage! Anyw...