Story of the Japan Adventure

Went to Miyajima island this morning. What a beautiful site. This is the famous Red Tori gate in the sea location. When you see the pictures you'll say 'oh yeah' I've seen that picture before. We spent a long time walking around the shrine and town area of the island. The shrine itself is almost completely over water. At one end we found some newer looking buildings we believe to be the current monks' residences. We wandered around the town, shopping, window shopping and just admiring the sites. It's still too cold for the cherry blossoms here, although the trees were in bud. We called the rental car place to let them know we'd be late. We were having too much fun. There are deer all over the ferry port and shrine area, and they expect to be fed. We saw one that in desperation was chewing on a lady's rain jacket belt. I hope I got a picture of the tug of war, it was very cute. We got back to town and stopped to get the rental car, it was smoky but bigger than we expected.

When we got back to the room I was starting to feel a little queasy, so I napped. The longer I rested the worse I got. I told Scott to not wait on me if he wanted to run around and see things. He left to go talk to the rental car folks about the Nav system we had in the car. While he was gone I got sick. After I recovered and slept I started to think back to what I'd eaten. I have to assume it was the sandwich I'd had on the Shinkansen the day before. Do not eat egg salad in Japan. Well at least be very careful.