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So I wake up at 11ish, and I have the worst hangover of my entire life, ever. Ever. EVERRRRR. Eventually I wake up in my street clothes at 1pm after telling the cleaning staff to get the hell outa my room. I have my camera, which I gave to Penny, so I figure she went to Kyoto without me and I wouldnt see them again till next week. Thanks for the fun guys!

So I go to a restaurant and eat really slowly, and start to fall asleep on my food, so I leave and stumble to my room again. Wtf am I gonna do? There's no way I can go to Kyoto. Well, what the hell, lets try the aquarium.

So off I go to the Aquarium, and I see the Osaka ferris wheel along the way, and the famous earthquake proof bridge. I really dont know how to describe the Aquarium other than AMAZING. I started to get all teary eyed because of how lucky I was to be seeing something this fantastic.

Oh thats another thing with me. I love Japan. A lot. And I worked really hard to get here, and I have always wanted to get here. Usually when I see something really cool, I get all choked up and teary eyed because its like living a dream, and I realize how much all my hard work has paid off. Also, I am upset because it will end and its just a vacation, for I dont live in this fantastic place.

Enough sappy-ness, back to the friggin WHALE SHARK. They have a Whale Shark in a HUGE tank with about 2000 other creatures, including a friggin Manta Ray. Its ridiculous, and the hugest tank in the world for Aquariums. I also saw king crabs and otters and stuff (which are ADORABLE.... the otters, not the king crabs), but the crabs has arms as wide as my wrist and one arm was as long as my full arm span, so about 5ish feet long. I started to get hungry, YAY, so I had a spicy chicken sandwich and kept plodding through the Aquarium. At the send was a Fish art display which was amazing, but I ran outa pictures on my Disposable. They had tanks that changed colors to match the fish swimming by, Fish Kaleodoscopes, and I found this crazy a** fish called the Frog fish, that looked like a swimming rock. If you wanna see pics of this stuff, lemme know, cept that Frog fish.

So yeah, I went some shopping afterwards, and I found a ninja shop. Some old lady gives me a piece of paper and talks to me in English and I find out she did something in America, I sorta forget, but we write Tanabata wishes together. Cuz, holy crap, its TANABATA! So this wish counts. Bure-kuDansu Jouzuni Narimasu Youni. Tomu.
So I head out back to the hotel, have dinner, and start to go shopping in this HUGE shopping complex which had a gigantic sale. The clothes were expensive, but it was a shopping mall that was easily gigantic and had a ferris wheel on the top rofl. Penny wanted to go on it last night, but it was closed due to preparations for the sale today.
So as im shopping, I almost run right into the damn blonde girls from the castle! hahahah The world really is small (this is a huge recurring theme from the trip, so remember it!) I dont have that much money on my cuz the ATM rejected my card, so I figure I should save it if I want to go clubbing.

So I leave, go wander around and do more shopping, get lost, and actually stumble back to the trainstation, when I hear rock music. Its a band called Kaede which was fantastic in person, along with another JRock band called Miracle. I bought a Kaede single and got to meet the singer, who was really really cool. I loved her voice, but Miracle also had great music. I took a really terrible video which I inverted to the side to get a better view, but it doesnt adjust on the computer screen, so it looks horrendous hahah.
So after, i feel like its time to head back to Pure Wood.

Waka and Yuuki welcome me back and ask if im okay, which I replied Sorta. lol Then they asked if I went to Kyoto, and they loved how I didnt. I found out that Nao fell asleep in the restaurant until about 2pm. lol So its still kinda early at the bar, and I have a few beers, and then another bartender, Mikki, says hes gonna go to a club, so hell yeah, I wanna go to! Mikki and I then head out to Seke'a, an INSANE $30 club. I use my ID and everything, and club is gorgeous. Mikki leaves soon after, but I stay for a couple hours, and it is packed! Literally the most beautiful people I have ever seen are in that place, and everyone is dancing to Rave-ish music with the DJ screaming on a mic. In Japan there are set dances to do with your hands to some songs, so people are doing that (aaaaa oi oi aaaa sugoi! or Bing bing bing baaaaa bing bing baaaaaa bing bing! I wrote that so I dont forget how fun it was lol), and I am pretty sure I ran into a Yakuza party who hired like 6 gorgeous women to be with them the whole night.
But I eventually head back to Pure Wood, and its Nao! I asked if she was alright, and she said she threw up a bunch, but her hair was now LONG and black, and she told me she got extensions during the night. I absolutely loved it, but Yuuki and Waka hated it. hahah During the day, her boyfriend called and she cried, she told me; he'll be back next month. But she wanted to leave the bar early, so she told me goodbye, I said see you tomorrow, but she laughed. She then said goodbye for real, which made me really sad inside actually. I dont think Ill ever see Nao again, and I hope she has the best of luck with her Boyfriend.
Then Yuuki and Waka and I start talking about Japanese, Osaka Accent, and girls... things... and I teach them curses and they teach me slang and stuff. I have a bloody GREAT time drinking and talking with them, and my casual Japanese was getting fantastic. They demanded I come live in Japan cuz I like it so much, and I was like Duh, of course imma live here hahah. So we wrote down a ton of stuff, and i have the paper with me, and its hilarious every time I look at it. On it is everything from their names in Cursive, to the japanese symbol for Sex hahahah

At 4ish, I headed back home, happy about another fantastic day in Osaka. Tomorrow I plan to go to Hiroshima on a bullet train, and it would be a trip that would change my outlook on life forever.