Osaka

The next day we woke up and went to the train station. We waited over an hour for our train even though the train trip only went for thirteen minutes. When we arrived, we checked out our room and then went for a walk. We went to this small temple called Hozenji temple which had a statue of a grass man and people were meant to splash little bits of water on him. Next, we went to Dotonbori street which was really big and had lots of people we ended up getting dinner there. The dinner was nice it was one of those places where they cook in front of you. When we finished, we had a bit of a look around and then went back to our room and went to bed.

On the second day we walked around a bit and my Dad went to a couple of record shops. We also went to this lame animation store. We also walked into a temple that had a huge dragon head thing. After we looked around for a while we went back to our room and had lunch. Then we went to a Sumo Wrestling tournament and it was so exiting they stamped their feet before each round to clear away the evil spirits and they threw salt on the ground. The head referee had a knife so if they made wrong decision he would stab himself… apparently. I said if they did that in the A-league there would be a lot of death. The point in sumo wrestling is for two fat guys try to slap and push of flip their opponent to get them either out of the circle that they wrestle in or off their feet. One of the interesting matches was this Yoshi guy against someone else. Yoshi was just about to get pushed out of the circle but then he flung the other guy over his head who weighed about 30-40 more kilos than him. After the tournament ended we went back to our room had dinner and then went to bed.

On the next day, my mum and I went to universal studios we went on so many rides but my favourite ride was The Flying Dinosaur. Basically, you get picked up by a dinosaur which means you are looking straight down and then you go crazy and do loads of loop de loops and crazy things. Another cool ride was called Jurassic Park: The Ride. This was set up so you were on some sort of official water tour looking at the dinosaurs in their natural habitat. Then you end up “accidently” going into the restricted area. There are to Dilophosaurus squirting poison at you (which was actually water) and then at the end there was a big T-rex and you go through his legs and then down a water fall. It was really fun a lot of people screamed. My mum did something a bit cheeky, we had tickets to go on the Harry Potter ride at four thirty but my mum said the we had a flight back to Australia so they let us go on the ride early. We also went on this crazy ride where you were facing one way but instead you went backwards. When we got back to the hotel I told my dad all about the rides. Then we had dinner and then went to bed.