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| This little guy took a real liking to Nate. |
We catch a morning train for Tottori. Of course it leaves and arrives precisely on time. We have a short walk to our apartment. It is 2 pm, but check in is at 3 pm, and in Japan doing something that is not completely straight forward does not work. Asking to check in an hour early would throw them off. The other day I asked for two 50 Yen coins instead of a 100 Yen coin (50 Yen coins have a hole in the middle and Nate is saving them), and this caused a great deal of strife with the cashier. After a couple of minutes of discussion with another cashier, it was finally agreed upon. Japan is a very rule abiding society. We have to be careful due to our jay walking habits from the rest of SE Asia. Here it is not permitted, no matter how quiet the streets - Levi just does it anyway and then looks back at us in disbelief. A walk around town has Cindy remembering where the McDonald's is. When we enter, two older ladies are quite taken by us. Cindy explained later it was because they wanted to see what crazy amount of food I was going to bring back for this big American family. They were disappointed when it only ended up being a sundae for everyone.
Tottori is truly getting into the non touristy part of Japan. Very little English, menu's are all in Japanese, and there are no pictures. And Cindy's town of Shikano (close to here) is even more rural that this. A walk around at night finds the city of Tottori very quiet (no people or vehicles about).
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