Faylin (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} snowflower_chan) wrote,@ 2009-05-09 17:27:00 |
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Osaka, 21st April
This day ended up being all ups and downs.
My plan was to go and see Shitenno-ji that I missed on my second day when I was walking with my heavy bags and missed it entirely.
Just before leaving the hotel-room I noticed that the soles of the tennis-shoes-inspired-shoes were completely worn through under the heels. Since I had been an aho who went to Kyoto with those instead of the sneaker-like pair I had paid the price!:P Those shoes were dead but I thought that I could still wear them.
It was alright until I got out of Tennoji-station and it started raining!:D
I had popped into the MIO store whose sign you can see on one of the pictures from my second day, and saw really high cool shoes/boots. I was also looking for a hat but my decision was that I'd come back and shop maybe after sightseeing. However as soon as I got out of the store it rained and after walking for 3 minutes my feet were wet, so I was facing a decision - what shoes to buy. Whether to buy the ones I liked and a pair of ballerinas to walk comfortably; to buy ones with middle-height heels; or buy the platforms. In the end I got the high-heeled ones, since I really wanted those and did not get anything low for the walk. So there I was strolling away with my 11cm heels - I do have interesting logic.
But I did reach the destination and looked around, I did not take a lot of pictures since it feels wrong to be clicking the camera while others have come there for the serious purpose of praying. That is why there are not a lot of pictures, I tried to take them quickly and from places I was not looking like the total obnoxious tourist :D.
There was also a fleamarket in the grounds, so I was looking at a lot of the stuff there and probably due to my huge heels and clothing-style plus being interested in the fleamarket and keeping my camera in my bag most of the time I think everyone there assumed I was an exchange student at the university. Because that was what one of the stall owners who sold dried fruits (at horrible prices...for example 100g of dried cherries for 1000 yen) asked me if I was, so I am simplifying this to mean everyone thought so:P...but I think it might be true since I did not look like the other (but still few) tourists there. In very broken Japanese I was answering the stall owner's questions and in the end out of feeling obliged, bought the killer-priced cherries. He wanted to know how Estonian flag looked like and how long I had been there...somehow they always asked if I had been there for a year or more as the first assumption and then I had to correct that no, I've been here for a few days but since I was doing it bad, most of the time they did not understand :D:D.
After getting out of one of the other gates of the shrine, I...walked the wrong direction! Wtih my feet hurting from walking so long on such heels :D:D:D. Ended up at Shitennoji-mae-Yuhigaoka and took the Tanimachi line back to Tennoji.
Being tired I was contemplating on going other places but I decided against it and came back to the hotel.
It was very early still, about 3 am but then it hit me that I only had 1.5 days and I had to go back and this freezed my brain completely. In the end I did not go anywhere but was feeling miserable and unable to think of where I wanted to go more...I was totally useless for the entire second half of the day and while my friend kept asking where I wanted to go all I could answer was I don't know and I've no idea. It felt even then like a totally stupid thing to do to waste half a day on whining but I could not make myself become cheerful. If I do regret anything about the trip is that I killed off half of the Tuesday like this and being so hard to deal with!
This day ended up being all ups and downs.
My plan was to go and see Shitenno-ji that I missed on my second day when I was walking with my heavy bags and missed it entirely.
Just before leaving the hotel-room I noticed that the soles of the tennis-shoes-inspired-shoes were completely worn through under the heels. Since I had been an aho who went to Kyoto with those instead of the sneaker-like pair I had paid the price!:P Those shoes were dead but I thought that I could still wear them.
It was alright until I got out of Tennoji-station and it started raining!:D
I had popped into the MIO store whose sign you can see on one of the pictures from my second day, and saw really high cool shoes/boots. I was also looking for a hat but my decision was that I'd come back and shop maybe after sightseeing. However as soon as I got out of the store it rained and after walking for 3 minutes my feet were wet, so I was facing a decision - what shoes to buy. Whether to buy the ones I liked and a pair of ballerinas to walk comfortably; to buy ones with middle-height heels; or buy the platforms. In the end I got the high-heeled ones, since I really wanted those and did not get anything low for the walk. So there I was strolling away with my 11cm heels - I do have interesting logic.
But I did reach the destination and looked around, I did not take a lot of pictures since it feels wrong to be clicking the camera while others have come there for the serious purpose of praying. That is why there are not a lot of pictures, I tried to take them quickly and from places I was not looking like the total obnoxious tourist :D.
There was also a fleamarket in the grounds, so I was looking at a lot of the stuff there and probably due to my huge heels and clothing-style plus being interested in the fleamarket and keeping my camera in my bag most of the time I think everyone there assumed I was an exchange student at the university. Because that was what one of the stall owners who sold dried fruits (at horrible prices...for example 100g of dried cherries for 1000 yen) asked me if I was, so I am simplifying this to mean everyone thought so:P...but I think it might be true since I did not look like the other (but still few) tourists there. In very broken Japanese I was answering the stall owner's questions and in the end out of feeling obliged, bought the killer-priced cherries. He wanted to know how Estonian flag looked like and how long I had been there...somehow they always asked if I had been there for a year or more as the first assumption and then I had to correct that no, I've been here for a few days but since I was doing it bad, most of the time they did not understand :D:D.
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After getting out of one of the other gates of the shrine, I...walked the wrong direction! Wtih my feet hurting from walking so long on such heels :D:D:D. Ended up at Shitennoji-mae-Yuhigaoka and took the Tanimachi line back to Tennoji.
Being tired I was contemplating on going other places but I decided against it and came back to the hotel.
It was very early still, about 3 am but then it hit me that I only had 1.5 days and I had to go back and this freezed my brain completely. In the end I did not go anywhere but was feeling miserable and unable to think of where I wanted to go more...I was totally useless for the entire second half of the day and while my friend kept asking where I wanted to go all I could answer was I don't know and I've no idea. It felt even then like a totally stupid thing to do to waste half a day on whining but I could not make myself become cheerful. If I do regret anything about the trip is that I killed off half of the Tuesday like this and being so hard to deal with!
