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LORD! I was actually hot a couple of times today, no jacket or zippy…just a t-shirt
Steps –8,324
13 hours 58 min of daylight
Latitude – Calgary 51º, Sendai 38º
Sendai (pop 1,098,335) is where we woke up today. The city of trees is Sendai’s nickname, but I’d say everything we’ve seen of Japan so far could be called the cities of trees – certainly the country of green…everything has been very lush. I found a pretty big dragon fly, I guess they like the green too. Our excursion took us out of
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Sendai for the most part, so we didn’t see much of the city itself.
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The temple has the nightingale alarm floors we
learned about last time in Japan. These wooden floors make noises intruders
walk across them – very cool. This time Echo had too many other things to tell
us, that she didn’t mention the floors, if you knew about them, they were super
obvious.
We have been hoping to visit a sake brewery in Japan and today was that day. I know what sake is and have tasted it, in fact each time we’ve gone to Pacific Rim, the ship’s Asian themed restaurant we’ve had it, but I don’t know much about it.
Our sake education was at Ichinokura brewery. We learned how sake is made and the rituals surrounding it. They make sake here from
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underground stream water and local rice. We learned about the process to develop a yeast or the “mother of sake” and fermentation. We toured the factory, sampled 5 of their sakes, and browsed the minimal shop, but didn’t buy.
This tour was great. Echo was great, the other
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participants were great, and there were only about 23 of us. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time for free time at Matsushima. It would have been fun to have a drink and a snack.
We were back at the boat for a late lunch and
some actual pool time! Our tour didn’t leave this morning until 10:30, so we
had morning pool time too.
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the pilot coming to lead us out |
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ne for this cruise. If there were more, we might not make a huge effort to get t
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here. We actually came in third place with 8/15 correct guesses. The remaining 7 we didn’t even have a clue about. We have returned to the Regent of old, the Regent that
thinks we’re all from the pre-WW2 era. We had a switch in piano players at the beginning of the cruise and ohhhh how we miss the last guy. The current one plays some current-ish stuff when he is just playing, but his Guess That Tune selections are mostly from before I WAS BORN! I googled each of the 15 songs from last night and the youngest one was from 1978!!!!! Honestly! Not the end of the world but come on.
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1 comment:
So you guys are the young ones on the ship??lol!
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