Kobe

The next day we got up bright and early and took the subway into town. We didn’t have any plans except to just walk around and explore. It was so early that all the shops and houses were buttoned up, but we walked through neighborhoods and got a glimpse of Kobe outside of the busy city center. Around lunch we headed back to the city center and did some shopping and visited China town. It is funny to visit China town after just being there! We got these amazing pot stickers at a street vender and people watched. Then we walked around and found this dessert called a dessert burger. It was a doughnut for a bun and had a cookie crunch inside and was packed with yummy fruit and hot chocolate syrup. It was SO good. I felt like I was on splendid table and so I took a video of us eating it and we gave a great NPR narration of the goodness. That night we were back on the ship to transit to Yokohama. Our transit day was nice, because transit is optional and so there were only about 250 of us on board and so it is quiet and you can catch up on journaling and school work and just watch movies and relax. It was a good day.