DAY THREE

Now sitting on a Shinkansen after a stressful commute to the train station from our hotel! We had a tight schedule so we left our hotel, got on the ferry (more on that later), and had eight minutes to cross a tunnel (going up and down all these stairs with our heavy luggage), walk a ton, go up some more stairs, and get on the train. It was hectic, but we made it! Then we got off and boarded the shinkansen (bullet train) where I'll be sitting for an hour before we get off at Kokura (i think?) and transfer trains. But anyway, yesterday was day three.
So we ate breakfast at the hotel from yesterday, which was this great buffet with great chocolate croissants. Feeling full, we missed our first train because people were late (I was murderous at that point because we were planning on going to the beach later and sensei sama said if we missed the first train we couldn't go, but everything turned out okay). Got on the street car and thought we'd missed the train by like ten minutes. It was veryy hot yesterday. Although not as hot as day one, i think that was the worst. We got to Miyajima finally and it turned out the train we thought we missed actually ran a different time, so I was happy. We got on a ferry (in the ocean!!!!! yaaayyyy!!!) and took it over to the island. We saw this really pretty shrine and the famous Tori (sorry if i spelled that wrong) which is the red/orange thing in the water that slightly resembles a pi symbol. It was super pretty. Then we broke for lunch/saw this other temple that was a practicing temple. We sat for a moment and listened to monks chanting and beating drums and stuff which was really cool. Then we walked around some more, had lunch, and had shave ice! A DEER (silly deer!!! they're everywhere!) ate sugi's last dango (little round mochi-ish things with sauce on sticks like skewers) off the stick, then stole my seat!! it pushed me out!! i was very disgruntled at this deer and moved to a different seat, then it kicked me out of that one!! rude!!! Anyway then we took a van to THE BEACH!!!!!!! How I've missed the beach. One thing that was sooo wrongggg with this beach was that there were DEER on it. stupid deer. we played in the water and the sand and it was glorious. then we packed up and went back to the hotel, showered, and had a banquet-type thing. I tried to eat all my food, but there was so much I couldn't finish it all, though I tried valiantly. Had some good conversation with Yeh-san, Juliana, and Sensei-sama and then went to go see the tori lit up at night. That was gorgeous, the lights cast this eerie green glow over the ocean and the orange was so vibrant. It was really awesome. Then we went back to the hotel, hung out a while, and went to bed! All around a rather pleasant night! On to day four! Yatta!
Jya~