Good morning! Yesterday was another big day. When I woke up I still had a headache from the night before and I woke up early at 7am because I couldn’t sleep. I was surprised when I got up and not even Damian was awake yet, normally he is first, but he did get up not long after.
I spent the morning hanging out at devhouse while doing some coding on the devhouse website. I needed to fix a few bugs but it also turned out I had created some more so that was fun!
James and I had set out on an adventure to find a rental car for today so that would could drive together down to Hiroshima and have a big road trip. When we checked the websites every place had said they were sold out, we assumed for Sakura season and everyone else wanting to go on little vacations. We did end up finding a small number of places that had cars available but unfortunately the only cars anyone had were little cars and wouldn’t be nice to spend 10 hours total driving in a day.
We decided that maybe this was a sign and that we shouldn’t hire the car. We went back to devhouse to deliver the bad news. Becuase we now didn’t have to wake up early the next morning we made a plan to go for a walk and get some dinner and drinks instead.
Before we started our night plans though I went for a short run around Osaka so that I could get in some exercise. It was a nice run but the paths were a little busy with other people walking. I quickly ran back to devhouse with everyone eagerly awaiting so we could get some food.
We made a plan of heading towards the first bar, which was submarine themed, and we would get some food along the way. Most places we stopped in at were either closed or full so we had to try hard to find somewhere. Eventually we ended up somewhere that was highly reviewed that sold hamburger steaks. Because it was pretty busy James and Elise had tried to find somewhere else to eat where we could all eat together but sadly we got seated at the same time they found somewhere.
This meal that we received from this place, the hamburger steak, was one of the most amazing meals I have had while being in Japan. We were able to watch the chef prepare our meals fresh, including cutting and cooking the meat.
We then went to the first bar which was like being inside a submarine. It was a little small and cramped, but this was nice because I felt it added to the experience. From there we went to a small bar we found along the way when we were walking the food place before. From the outside it looked cozy and there was only one person there so we figured we could try it out and there was room. It was nice here. Damian was able to have another conversation with the other patron and I was quite impressed. I like that he is able to communicate with other people that I cannot.
The next place we went to was hidden behind a vending machine. We finished off the night at a club along the Dotonbori river. We somehow spent a lot of time here and left when the sun started coming up.
See you tomorrow!