Jacky Lai

It's quite a pleasure to have a week off after these days.  Half an year has past, and I appretiate all the patients I've been taking care of.  The three of us have been waiting for this wonderful trip for a long time, and indeed, we had a great time.

Dec. 17 Turn Off Your Cells and Let's Go!!

6AM, we packed up our packs and left for airport.  I've never been so excited.  I aint gonna hear by cellphone ringing for some annoying unpleasant complaints.  We're gonna take our time and enjoy our life. Boeing 777, EVA air flight BR2131 Taipei to Kansai

Can't be more excited. Dr Lee, myself, and Dr. Chang

777 is surely a nice plane - all those entertainment stuffs and so on.  It's a quick flight from Taipei to Kansai, taking only about 2 hours.  As we finished our blunch, the flight began decending.  I'd like to say that our captain are really flying.  We landed smoothly and we're so thrilled to see everything different outside the window.  It's my second time to Kansai actually, so I'm quite familiar with this place.  Owe to "anti-terrorist" policy, our face and fingerprints were obtained while entering.  We grabbed our bags and went to Japan Rail Station to activate our JR passes.

kansai Airport. 7-degree-celcius at that time

JR Pass; that's how we save money on transportation

JR Pass is a promotional product to facilitate tourism in Japan.  With a JR pass, you can ride almost all kind of transportation facilities including railways(this includes Shin-Kansen), buses, and ferry.  We took Haruka - Kansai airport express to Osaka.  It took us some 3~4 hours to find our hotel with our enormous backpack on our shoulders.  A little misunderstanding between the travel agency and ourselves.  We went to Osaka Tokyu Inn whereas our hotel is Esaka Tokyu Inn.  It took us 2,100 Yan to get there by taxi.  Well, at least the hotel is next to railroad station, that's a good news.

Haruka - Kansai airport express

Our hotel room; the one in the picture is my classmate, Dr. Lee

We quickly unloaded our baggage and went out for dinner.  There's a famous place in around Namba, Osaka.  We took the Osaka Loop line to JR-Namba station.  Then, we walked about 10~15 minutes.  It's easily recognizable, cuz there's a giant king crab hanging on the wall.  We can have all kinds of snacks and food there - Takoyaki, King crab, etc.  Man, it's really delicious!

JR Namba station - underground

King crab on the wall

All kind of stuffs

Oh, Gosh!! Mmmmmm........ Yummy!!!

"something"yaki; It tastes like spaghetti folded with lasagna and lots of veges.

Ahashiyaki; octupus stuffed in boiled eggs

  But Le Ping.  Fried potato-salad!

Fried shrimp and chicken; taste really good with cabbage

beef-tendon stew

After having these delicious dishes, we were finally on our way to hotel.  What a day!!  And tomorrow, our most important destination - Universal Studio Japan, WEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!