Sendai Day 2

This day we started off rather late, around 10am. YSki's dad came to pick us up at the hotel. He drove us to a place called Matsushima. It's a collection of a bunch of islands around the Sendai area. It was nice and peaceful. We walked inside of a temple, but I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside so I took a bunch of pictures outside. It wasn't anything spectacular inside, but outside was. It had a bunch of carvings in stone and in caves too. They brought them outside so people wouldn't have to go inside the caves. The trees were extremely tall too.

We took a boat ride to tour the islands of Matsushima. Hehe. I fell asleep on the trip though. I wasn't sure if I was tired or just it was so boring. Near the end of the boat ride we found that people were feeding the seagulls and that taking pictures. So I took a picture of them taking pictures of feeding seagulls. It was quite amuzing. When we stopped, it was at another place not where we started, and her dad drove there. We had lunch there. I had a bowl of rice with Unagi. I actually really like that a lot. It was pretty tasty too, but looked expensive. I also had steak too, that was pretty good. Actually it was a cow's tongue, but it's not as bad as it sounds. More chewy though, but not bad.

From there he drove back to Sendai, and dropped us off somewhere near Sendai Station. I was really starting to feel kinda sick again, but we went on an hour tour around Sendai on a tour bus. It took us to Sendai Castle, or the gate, because it doesn't really exist. Not sure why, but there isn't anything there. Then we went all over the place, naming things that I don't know and nothing that I can remember at the moment. After the hour long tour, we went back to the famous street area, and went into a media mall tech center. We checked e-mail and went on the internet for 40 minutes and went into the library. I found an interesting book that taugh me how to learn Japanese faster. It really works, although right now I'm not really working on it. I'm doing things the more structured way. That was really interesting for me to learn though.
Around 6pm we met up with YSki's dad and his family to go have dinner at Ducca. I felt so bad because I couldn't eat most of things that they ordered. They were like you can't have anything with dairy, how do you survive? That's a very good question since everything here in Japan has dairy in it, and if it doesn't they add it.

So it was pretty tough, but we got through dinner. I didn't like tea so I didn't drink much of it, I only ordered Orange Juice and Grapefruit juice and alternated when I finished it. The dinner was average, nothing great, but nothing bad. I did have to eat a Shrimp head. I've never really done that before and it was a tad bit on the strange side for me. They told me it's high in Calcium, but I'm like so what? After dinner, we went back to the hotel and then YSki had some stuff to give to her sister. Then we went upstairs and I sat in that confortable chair in the elevator and we went to sleep.