究極の旅行: Ultimate Travellers Travelled by Train

We began the day with a hearty breakfast in the fanciest room we've ever eaten in. It had 16 massive crystal chandliers! The morning was spent navigating the train system and the streets of Osaka. We were shown how to use the Japanese train ticket machines and by the end of the day we actually did it all by ourselves. We successfully caught the train there and back, with some interesting sights seen along the way. It was cool to see Japanese school (which seemed to consist of several storey square buildings fenced in with a gravel playground area) and we saw lots of apartment buildings with clothes drying on the balconies. We toured the streets of Osaka (not really on purpose...we got a little lost) but we enjoyed seeing different buildings, stores and the vending machines at every turn. We went to the Floating Garden Observatory and climbed (ok we went in an elevator) up 173m to get a fantastic view of the whole city. The afternoon was spent hitting the frisbee fields with two awesome games. First up Dingos vs Germany. It was a nail-bitting game with Australia up by 1 at half! They stormed to victory in the 2nd half to win 17 to 12. Andrew (or AJ as he is more commonly know as in the frisbee community) played like a champion! He caught 2 awesome points and threw 2 hucks (long throws) to assist 2 other points! The Jackson family supporters did Australia proud, cheering their lungs out for the Dingos! The second game was even more nail-bitting with the Australian women (Firetails) taking on Columbia. It was an epic match with the teams within points of each other the whole game. Unfortunately the Columbians won by 2 in the end. The lovely thing about the Ultimate Frisbee community is they are so friendly and at Worlds you get to meet people from all over the place. We had a very nice chat to a Russian girl as we were packed into a bus exceeding capacity. The day ended with the most wonderful dinner experience. The menus weren't in English and didn't have picture so we had some fun ordering! The people at the restaurant were lovely and knew a bit of English. We had the most amazing pudding! We exclaimed "oiishi" countless times to tell them how delicious it was! We wanted to be able to order it again so we asked them to write it down. That confused them a bit at first but they then began writing it down on the back of the bill. As we left the whole kitchen staff sang a goodbye greeting and handed us a little card with the name of the dessert and 'thank you' on it...so thoughtful. Such a wonderful end to a wonderful day!

Today's word: Oiishi (Delicious)