...well, if I was sunburnt on the 21st, I'm extremely so today. The day (birthday!) spent cycling and swimming on tiny Taketomi Island was wonderful, and everyone was really sweet about it being my birthday. But, ow. One of my friends compared the colour of my back to roast beef - a little crude but not far off the truth, sadly! Still, despite coral scrapes and terrible burns, if Hokkaido was chill, Okinawa was epic.
We had the perfect number to travel with, and our hijinks - from beach photo shoots to being chased with sea cucumbers to izakaya hilarities always brought about uproarious laughter. It was definitely one of my busiest holidays; in retrospect, hard to believe that we did all that we did in four days! We were always moving (when we weren't sleeping, that is.)
...perhaps a little heavy on the conbini-food intake, but it gave us tons of time to make human pyramids in front of classic castles and race down the coast to watch whale sharks in a massive aquarium. Sea, sun, sand, and the occasional car of gorgeous J-guys? No complaints here! ^^
It was a holiday of scenic routes and rally stages (on car and on bike for both of the above, much to everyone's amusement); of epic omiyage shopping - largely on Naha's Kokusai-dori, as we dashed from awning to awning in the midst of a tropical storm. Of finding the most authentic tacos we could (some of them came with instructions on how to eat them, I kid you not.) It was a holiday of dancing, of wandering, of shared smiles, of laughter, of teamwork, of evil navi systems and of more snapshots than I can imagine.
Good times. Now to get around to posting those pictures!
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