Another beautiful morning in Japan...the weather is like our early September...warm, sunny and 70 degrees today!!!
After lunch we made our way to a cave carved out in a mountain. Its origins date back to WW2 but thats really all we got from the Japanese. This is where Sake is stored and aged. It was actually beautiful until we spotted bats flying around....
We started out our morning with a tour of a local small hospital. There is universal health care in Japan and like Canada they are going through a doctor shortage. We met with the chief of staff who is also a Rotarian with the local Rotary Club.
We then moved onto a museum in Sukarasuyama. The museum housed their "floats" used in their main parade which occurs in the summer. WOW!!! They are some floats... We also saw a little play depicting the parade、 as well as a movie showing real footage of how they put on the parade every year.
We presented at the lunch meeting of the Karasyama Rotary Club....This club is quite small, but did an awesome job hosting us today. Our presentation in Japanese also went over quite well. Its interesting to see the looks on their faces when we start talking Japanese. They say that they can understand everything we are saying. This boosts our egos a tad! This is a picture of Dustin (otherwise known as Handsome Baby ) in action!!!
After lunch we made our way to a cave carved out in a mountain. Its origins date back to WW2 but thats really all we got from the Japanese. This is where Sake is stored and aged. It was actually beautiful until we spotted bats flying around....
So picture if you will...5 GSE members checking out the bats and taking pictures....bats maybe not liking the flash of the cameras too much...2 bats flying at the members....and 5 members running, screaming down the cave tunnel, and many Rotarians laughing more than their face off!!! Oh, I am sure they told stories about us when they got home to their families!!!
We learned that when Babies are born in Japan, usually parents buy a large bottle of Sake for their children, the year the child was born. It is aged for 20 years and then the bottle is opened on the 20th birthday of the child!!! If you look at the top left hand side of the picture you can see a picture of a child attached to the bottle of sake.
After being scared out of the tunnels by the bats we made our way to taste the sake! Some we liked and some not so much...
Kampaii!!!
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