Yokohama

            Today I walked around Yokohama. Much like Shanghai, I didn’t have a full day to walk around and it was mostly city with some parks. We found the Chinatown district to see if we could find any better priced things and ended up finding a Hello Kitty store – yes Hello Kitty is pervasive in Japan seeing as that is where it originated. Anyway, they had everything under the sun (including underwear!) that had Hello Kitty on it – pretty funny. Across from this store was one where you could pay for these little minnows to eat the dead skin from your feet. We decided to try it (I would never have done this had I been on my own) and it was one of the strangest sensations I’ve ever felt. Imagine a bubble machine blowing on your feet from all directions and your feet are being massaged at the same time. The only thing is that really little fish are nipping the dead skin right off and eating it – CRAZY! It was definitely weird. We stopped in a café for a bit and then went to a K pop (Korean pop music) store because one of my friends really likes their music. Then we headed back to the ship for lunch (so as to save money) and stayed on the ship. I found out later there was a roller coaster that went under the water in another part of the city and kind of wished I could have gone but all in all I had a good day.

I am now at sea and will be in the throws of the Pacific for the next 18 days (minus Thanksgiving when I’ll be in Hawaii). There won’t be many posts for the next 2 weeks, fyi.