We work up at about 9:45 and packed up our stuff, then went out to get some breakfast at the Family Mart. We went back to the hostel, inhaled our breakfast, and then checked out. We had an 11:25 train to make. It was raining pretty hard so we got a little wet on the way to the tram. From the tram we got our reserved tickets from Nagasaki to Hakata, and then from Hakata to Beppu. The train rides totaled about 4 hours.
We made our train to Hakata, another Hamome, with about 10 minutes to spare. I blogged the entire time we were on the train. Then Erin and I realized that once we get to Hakata we had about 4 minutes to get to our train to Beppu, so we had to hurry. Luckily we made that train. It is a pretty neat train; I like it.
Here is where I am sitting right now and where the magic is happening.
The seats are cool looking.
So yeah, we are about an hour from Beppu and I am sitting here typing, all caught up and stuff. I guess I will stop blogging now since I don't have anything new to tell you. I will finish this post tonight and then throw everything up to now online. Well, not up to now, up to about 8 hours from now I guess.
Now I am going to look out the window for an hour… YAY!
This just in, we just stopped at a station named USA… We’re home! Seriously though, the city is named うさ or Usa. Erin and I just found it really funny.
We made it to Beppu, I would like to say, some time around 3:30. It was raining pretty steadily so I am glad our hostel was easy to find. It even had signage at every turn telling you what to do. When we got there a very happy, warm person behind the check-in desk got our information, told us about the place and welcomed us. This hostel has it’s own hot spring, which is really convenient.
Anyway, this place is really nice. We even have our own private bathroom, which rocks. This is probably my most favorite room we have been in so far.
After we got set up, Erin and I went looking for food. After walking around in the rain for a while we decided that the supermarket would be our best choice. We got into the supermarket and found some bento boxes for lunch and then went on to find dinner while we were there since there aren’t a lot of good restaurants around that we know of. Eventually we decided that we should cook dinner, and then decided that we should also get breakfast while we were at it. We ended up having a food buying frenzy of sorts, it was a lot of fun.
We went back to the hostel and ate our lunches and then went up to our room. I blogged for a while (got caught up as far as posting goes) and did some surfing on the Internet. Erin decided to take a nap sometime. At about 9:00 Erin woke up and I suggested we go cook dinner, so the adventure began.
For dinner we were having soba with eggs and shrimp as the main dish, gyoza dumpling as the side and yellow watermelon as the fruit.
Erin cooking or something, I snapped a quick picture and then got back to cooking.
The yellow watermelon, it was really tasty.
We got everything ready and edible, prepared stuff, and then sat down to eat.
Our fabulous meal.
Yellow watermelon!
After dinner we cleaned up everything, which took a few minutes, and then headed up to our rooms. I surfed the web and chatted with a friend and Erin did what she always does, which I am not sure of. Then we decided to call the parents and chat a little bit/wish my Dad a happy Father’s Day. Once that was over I worked on this blog post.
Now that this is done and I am all caught up I am going to go use the hot spring to get clean and then go to sleep.
Good night!
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