Day 1: May 1st
March 1st came, and I went... to Osaka! I left Tokyo around 8:30am and arrived in Osaka just before 11. I ended up meeting dude? in Namba at around 11:30 or so and we stopped by to pick up a couple of games (look forward to a review in the next show) and then went over to Kua'aina in Namba Parks for some sweet hamburgers and big ass beers. Afterwards we headed back to dude?'s for some gaming, drinking and then prepared to go over to Koshien stadium for the night's game. We rolled into the stadium around 4 or 5, don't really recall, doesn't really matter. Game was alright, lost. Can't really remember the score, but had a good time.
Here's a couple of pics from the game:
Day 2: May 2nd
The day began surprisingly early and the weather reports were not good. The forecast for rain was about 50% and we were supposed to go on the "Osaka Loop Line" ride... so, after some discussion, dude? and I decided that we would bag it for this trip and just take a short ride down to the Namba area again for lunch, and to look for a stupid shirt for me. No luck with the shirt, but, oh well. The most surprising thing on the short ride that day was going through an area of town called "Nishi-Nari" (I think). This place was shocking. It started with a dead cat and a guy sleeping in a parking lot, and ended with the distinct smell of urine, and scattered with loads of drunk, unemployed old guys along the way... it was like a different country. I've never seen that level of poverty here in Japan. I've certainly seen it back home in the U.S., but never here... shocking...
Here's some pics from that part of the day:
We made it back to dude?'s and rocked some video games and some beers and then later headed out for dinner (yakiniku) with Mrs. dude? and her parents. Good times, they are really good people, and it was some good eats. After dinner we headed back to the dude? pad and prepared to head out for an evening bike ride to cover 3 bridges around town. It was a really cool ride. Pretty short, came in around 2-3 hours, and had some spectacular views of the city along the way, and also some sweet corkscrew offramps that we flew down! Good times in Osaka!
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