I showed up to the dive shop today and Amber surprised me by being my guide and bringing her friend Sarah who is a professional photographer. We went diving right off the shore near the dive shop and it was amazing. So much underwater life with a huge coral garden.
Finally, after long planning Alex and I got to go diving since the last time in the Philippines almost 3 years ago. Everyone else was able to join our boat trip out to the Kerama islands to do snorkeling which they’ve never done before. The nice thing is that we had very thick wetsuits which made the water warm and the weather was beautiful.
Leaving a city you’ve spent a few days in is always bitter sweet. You become familiar with your surroundings, develop a routine, and find out more things to do but the time comes to an end. It’s time to pack up to move to the next place which is new and exciting again.
Yesterday ended in a late night where I couldn’t start my usual blog writing time at 1am. It was our last full day in Tokyo and everyone decided to do their own thing which worked out great.
Another super action packed day today. We casually made our way to Odaiba which was hosting a Dojinshi (fan made manga) convention called Comiket. I went last time I was in Tokyo but wanted to share the “experience”. Basically it’s a gay comic convention mostly drawn by women and purchased by women.
Today was a really long day. I haven’t fully adjusted to the time zone change and woke up about an hour after I posted my blog last night at 3am, and went to sleep for another hour from 5:30-7. We put together a list of places we wanted to check out from our ideas pool and started the morning at 7-11 for breakfast. I have to say that grad school would be MUCH easier if I had these super cheap and delicious sushis at home.
I’ve been up for about 26 hours with a few small naps during the flight but I need to make sure I keep this blog up otherwise I’ll fall behind.
It’s been a REALLY long day. Couldn’t sleep last night because I was so excited to getting started on the trip. I only got about an hour and a half of sleep and by 1:30am, I was wide awake.
I’m really excited to be doing another Asia trip and have been looking forward to doing this for quite some time. I was in Japan in 2015 with my siblings and had such a great trip I felt like there was too much to cram into one vacation.
