More Travels

Sorry for the delay, our schedule has been jam packed for the past couple days!

Dec. 7
We had a pretty uneventful day. In the morning we did almost nothing but traveling and the planned museum was closed. We ended up just hanging out around Kitakyusyu which wasn't so bad. Our hotel was in Sasebo, where the hamburger was introduced in Japan by American sailors. Sasebo burgers are famous all over Japan and we got treated to them for dinner at the hotel. DELICIOUS!

Dec. 8
In the morning we did more train riding to Arita, which is a small city famous for their pottery and ceramics (pretty much everywhere is famous for something in Japan). There we visited the ceramic museum and also looked around old Arita town for some shopping. We viewed some exquisite pieces and had a great time.

Dec. 9
Another slow day. There were plans to go on a short cruise to a little island off the coast, but it actually SNOWED and some of us were sick (including me) which pretty much ruled it out.

Dec. 10 (today)
First we rode EVEN MORE TRAINS to get to Nagasaki, which is where we are now. In the afternoon we visited a beautiful garden called Susenji.

And one more thing:
I have tried both strawberry and sweet-potato flavored Kit-Kats. Yum (and I'm not being sarcastic).

-Georgie ;)