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O.k I have got to come clean and get this off my chest, for at least a week now I have been borrowing Sarah's strawberry lip balm, it's really windy here and my lips are really red and painful. We went for one last spa before checking out, at least I did. Sarah discovered that naked people in the spa wasn't as funny when it was happening to you as there were four naked ladies in her spa, I thought it sounded fine. I went in anyway and it just gets stranger and stranger as the naked blokes were up to there naked tricks, I had got used to that but the pool/bath (whatever you want to call it) had about ten apples in it, like some sort of gay apple bobbing competition. I wanted nothing to do with it. I got back to the room unscathed by what had happened in the spa. We checked out and went to the supermarket again to buy bloody ham, bloody crisps, bloody chocolate and a bloody drink. But about fifty yards from the station we saw a Japanese fast food place which had a sausage tasty looking thing advertised in the window for one hundred and ninety Yen (about one quid fifty), we got it and it was like a sausage in a spring roll we shared it with our first taste of ketchup since we arrived. Anyway stoked up on food we caught the train to Okayama then we got on the bullet train to Shin-Osaka changing here for Osaka central, this is where I thought our hotel was but the little minx had an ace up her sleeve, we changed trains again. Alarm bells were ringing as the train was on route to Universal City and Universal Studio's was advertised everywhere, in fact the train was covered from top to bottom in Seseame Street and Elmo pictures, I said 'are we going to Universal Studio's?' she replied 'damn it how did you guess already?' so clever. I was excited though, she explained there was an aquarium that was visible from the lift. We got there and it was like being in a cartoon, one of those situations that makes you feel like a kid again. We checked in and our room was ace a little sofa, a table and a foot rest not to mention the views over the whole of Universal Studio's. We dropped our bags off and went to explore. Worth pointing out that we did not have tickets for the park which was fairly frustrating but was still a good experience. We looked around for a while and sneaked some sneaky shots through the gates then headed back to the room for a brew as it was very cold. We had no milk left, disaster. We headed back downstairs to the shop, got there and their cupboard was bare, no milk. So like true Brits desperate for a cup of tea we got on the train and went two stops along to good old 'family-mart'. We then got back to the room had a brew and watched Spiderman dubbed in Japanese and ate our pot-noodles from the day before. It got dark and the park from our room window lit up so we headed out to take some photo's in the dark. On the way back to the room I asked 'where's this aquarium then?' Sarah replied 'in one of the lifts' so we called each lift (having to keep sending the ones that we had checked or been in right to the top so they didn't keep opening the doors), it was in none of the lifts, I said 'well I haven't seen sign posts for an aquarium' 'well on the internet it went up and down in the lift' my mind started ticking 'how do they attach an aquarium to a lift?' 'well it was a little tank with fishys in' not quite the definition of an aquarium, 'so it was a fish tank then?' 'yep' ahhh glad we spent no more time finding it. We then had showers and a cup of coffee and... watched Spiderman again (there is no internet or English television here). Sleep time about ten thirty.
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Sarah You forgot the funniest thing - when we walked into the hotel it was lined with staff who bowed each time they said hello,so we followed suit, so walking and bowing every two steps to the check-in desk - comical! This was also the night we messed around taking silly pics in hats, on cars and i had a mcdonalds - opps! There was that octopus ball museum there too - we would have tried some if we had understood it !