The Jellyfish and the Visa

Went to Japan on Thursday Morning. Took the Hydrofoil boat which was impressive. "Jet engine technology" causes it to hover over the water so there's no swaying back and forth for hours on end. And it's really fast. We were whipping by other boats.

It was clean and comfortable, two floors and they even had a little snack bar.

Japan was super hot; of course I wore my jeans -- having changed into them on the super airconditioned boat -- so when I got off I DIED. it was in the 40's. I waited about 30min in that heat for the bus. found the hotel without a problem though and after checking in took off in search of the Korean embassy. The underground was insanely HUGE. It was a transfer station so they had an underground shopping mall (no exaggeration) which I had to walk to the end of to grab the train.

Getting to the station was fine but then I had to walk at leaste 20 min from the station to the embassy and it was BLAZING hot; mid afternoon heat. Did I mention I was wearing jeans? Ugh! My legs were sweating! Eeeew! I was just itching to peel them off and run down the street nude and insane with sunstroke.

The next morning at luch in the hotel restaurant I met one of the Canadians I'd seen at the embassy the day before; she wanted me to show her how to get there by subway since she thought it would be good to see the underground.

After picking up our Visa's we had 2 1/2 hours to kill before the ferry and decided to find the beach. It was practically empty save for ten people hiding in the shade of trees at the edge of the beach and one or two lone Japanes men suntanning.

After checking out the water I understood why. It was pretty polluted and there was Jelly fish washed up all over the beach. At first, I didn't know what they were: I though it was a piece of plastic. Then Agatha poked a stick through one of them. oh! surprise. It was dead but definately not a piece of plastic.

There were live ones swimming in the ocean so I didn't go in past my ankles. Couldn't remember if they have little stinging tenticles or not...have to look that up.

Just got in last night. It's Saturday morning here and now I have a long weekend because there's a national holiday on Monday. Will hit the beach today? Think I'm going to check out an Irish Pub tonight with Kelly.

It's hot but the clouds are coming in and the wind's getting strong. Loving that breeze!