Wednesday 22nd September

Wednesday 22^nd September

First up today is a trip to the Osaka Kaiyukan Aquarium. It’s one of the biggest in the world – just the building itself is worth a look.  On the way there we walk past the Tempozan ferris wheel – defo having a go on this!

Watch out for Scooby Doo monsters on the underground

Part of the outside of the aquarium

Inside the aquarium the first animals we meet are otters!! Totally awesome otters all rolling around and being ottery. Within 5 minutes I realised my camera was no use for taking pics of the tanks booooo. I walked round with Jeffrey oohing and ahhing at all the fishels. The whale sharks were particularly impressive. As were the scrillions of different jellyfish all neon and blobby and floaty and stingy. They had a petting tank which was awesome! I got to pet rays and sharks! The rays felt soooo weird they were all spongy it was creepy. The sharks were all rough and jaggy.  The last thing you see before leaving the aquarium is the tank filled with giant crabs. They have samurai faces on their shells and they look like something straight out of a horror film. (There better not be any of these in Australia its bad enough thinking about all the spiders, snakes, sharks, crocs and other bitey stingy deadly creatures).

If you do, you could end up with leaves on your head

Crazy wall-climbing crabs

Creepy!!!

After the aquarium we went to the mall next door to get something to eat and do a bit of shopping. This is also where the Tempozan ferris wheel is. After playing about in some shops taking funny pics we played in the arcade. Had a shot at Time Crisis shooting stuff it was awesome (mental note to self buy Time Crisis for ps3 when you get to Australia).  Bought tickets for the ferris wheel and me, Dennis, Mitch and Bruce hopped in. It took about 20 minutes to go round and the view was awesome.  I thought it was the worlds tallest but that was in 1999. It certainly felt like it while I was up there.

Jeffrey kicking ass in the arcade

Josh...well...being Josh

The mall had a petting zoo featuring meerkats!! Yes meerkats my favourite! I took Jeffrey and oh my god he was soooo badly behaved. I don’t know what he said to the Al Paca but he seriously pissed it off and he scared the hell out of the squirrel monkey. (He also got a bit randy with the rabbits and high-fived a pug after. Bad bunny). You couldn’t pet the meerkats but you could buy carrot sticks and feed them. I considered taking the chi-hee-hee with me in my handbag but decided against it as Jeffrey is enough of a handful.

One pissed off Al Paca

A terrfied squirrel monkey

Meerkat!

Jeffrey!

JEFFREY!!!

After fun at the mall we headed back to the hotel. Next up – Mitch O’ Connell’s art exhibit at the Standard Book Store. Jeffrey mis-behaved himself as usual. He located all the sexy books and amused himself.

After art we went to one of our favourite places for snackaroos. They have a huge menu and its all really cheap. So is the sake which was in full flow! I left the guys to it and headed back to the hotel. Another great day in Japan J