Universal Studios Japan and last morning in Osaka

We are currently driving from Toronto to Sudbury after an amazing trip!  I didn’t have the energy to do the blog on our last night when we had to get all packed up etc. Figured I’d do it in the airports/flights but wasn’t thinking that without internet, this can’t save on this blog platform and I didn’t want to write it all and have it disappear like has happened before!

Before get into the last day, this is the bathtub at our Osaka Airbnb. No idea how Osaka just got linked or how to undo that. 😆 

Joel came out the first night and said I can’t figure out how to get the bath tub on can you come and look?  And I was like Joel I’m trying to unpack. Figure it out. Sometimes you have to try a few things to get it on. Turn the faucets. You will figure it out. And he was like: that’s the thing. There is no faucet. 

Osaka

To start I’ve got this coin holder off Temu because I had heard that you got a lot of coins in Japan and honestly, I thought it was a bit of a gimmick but they were like a dollar  it’s actually turned out to be very helpful.  After you get your change back, you can put each coin into the right slot  I find when I’m in another country using a different currency. I always end up with a lot of change because when you’re at the cash trying to pay it feels like it takes way too much time to sort through the coins since you don’t automatically know what each coin is and you have to search but when they’re nicely sorted like this, you can easily find a $.10 50 Cent etc. and you don’t end up with a whole coin purse full of change

Rainy Day in Kyoto

As I mentioned in the last post today was going to be a rainy day since we had swapped out our plans to just do some quieter activities today that we’re mostly inside our original plan was to hike which just really wasn’t meant to work we really enjoyed the teamlabPlanets that we did in And a new teamLab opened up in Kyoto a few months ago so I got tickets online for 10:30 AM.  that meant everyone got to sleep until about nine. I was up at 6 AM, of course re-jigging the itinerary for the day. Since we had some extra time, Trevor and I decided to walk over to 711 in the morning so that we could get our 7-Eleven smoothies which was on our food scavenger hunt. There are two different kinds of smoothies they have at 7-Eleven some of them are frozen and you blend them and then some of them are more like frappe’s. The one near our place only had the frappe version

We buy pastries at 7-Eleven every day for breakfast and it never ceases to amaze us. The ones we see this is literally just a hotdog bun filled with whipped cream so many sandwiches and buns in Japan are just filled with whipped cream.