On Thursday I took a well needed day of rest where I did nothing. I was exhausted, maybe from jet lag and maybe from a day with children hanging out of me but Philip does that most days and we only had one class so I put it down to jet lag. On Friday, the plan was to go out for Kay's birthday (Phil's better half). Philip went to work again and told me to be ready to go to lunch for 11.45am. We went to lunch with his colleague and neighbour Valerie and supervisor Erico. After lunch, we went to Kobe and viewed the whole city from the Kobe Port Tower. My first time seeing the Pacific Ocean. This was in the same area as some memorials to the victims of the Kobe earthquake in 1995. We then met Eric the Wahlrus Wahlrab. He just started teaching English in Japan in July in Toyama. I had seem him more recently than Philip but it was great seeing him again. We then met Philip's close friend Kozue and went to the Hobgoblin, an English bar. Eventually everyone arrived including the birthday girl Kay. We then went to the Lockup, a restaurant with a theme of a prison hospital. We were there for an hour in our little cell, got scared twice and and only got 2 rounds of drinks before we decided that the food was taking too long and we left. So much time was wasted in there that most people actually had to leave then including Kay.
I still had a good time in there. After farting around for a while, we ended up bowling. We being myself, Philip, Eric, Roy an Australian, Dan an American and Rob an Englishman. I don't think the girl in charge of our 2 lanes and the lanes around us was too happy with us as we were doing trick shots by the end of the night and were not in the most sober of form but we were fine. Philip and I started a trick shot contest in which 2 out of my 3 shots ended in strikes. After we tired of bowling we went to a karaoke bar. This was my first karaoke experience but dutch courage made me one of the first to sing in our little room. Unlike in Ireland where you sing in front of a whole bar, the typical Japanese karaoke, you get a room just for your friends and sing there. I opened with the Bealtes - I Am The Walrus as a dedication to seeing Eric the Wahlrus again and at another stage sang a Songbird by Oasis and did a duet with Philip of Fairytale of New York. We left the karaoke bar at about 6am and decided that plans to get a capsule hotel and walk Osaka the next day would be abandoned in order to just get some sleep. We got the first train back to Fukusaki and slept in Philip's place.
On Thursday I took a well needed day of rest where I did nothing. I was exhausted, maybe from jet lag and maybe from a day with children hanging out of me but Philip does that most days and we only had one class so I put it down to jet lag. On Friday, the plan was to go out for Kay's birthday (Phil's better half). Philip went to work again and told me to be ready to go to lunch for 11.45am. We went to lunch with his colleague and neighbour Valerie and supervisor Erico. After lunch, we went to Kobe and viewed the whole city from the Kobe Port Tower. My first time seeing the Pacific Ocean. This was in the same area as some memorials to the victims of the Kobe earthquake in 1995. We then met Eric the Wahlrus Wahlrab. He just started teaching English in Japan in July in Toyama. I had seem him more recently than Philip but it was great seeing him again. We then met Philip's close friend Kozue and went to the Hobgoblin, an English bar. Eventually everyone arrived including the birthday girl Kay. We then went to the Lockup, a restaurant with a theme of a prison hospital. We were there for an hour in our little cell, got scared twice and and only got 2 rounds of drinks before we decided that the food was taking too long and we left. So much time was wasted in there that most people actually had to leave then including Kay. 
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