We arrived in Osaka by train and luckily weee able to checkin to our hotel a bit early and head to see Osaka castle grounds. It was a beautiful day so lots of visitors and food vendors and performers welcoming them. I was amazed the only street performer<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/936481564?h=9803589428" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> setup just as we walked up and he happened to be playing a few of my favorite instruments to hear!
Fast overview, we catch a train to Osaka this morning so we are packing up to leave our three night stay in Nagano. We found gorgeous cherry trees in full bloom in white, dark pink, and light pink everywhere we traveled yesterday. The evergreens that have been beautifully pruned are truly inspiring. Many places daffodils and phlox and little hyacinths and muscari are blooming. The Nagano region has snow capped mountains and was home to one of the Winter Olympics. A little shop we walked into had a variety of glass beads along with a few stones we love such as amethyst and celenite and in interesting small display of one tuning fork and crystal kits - Michael spotted it first. I had to hear the bowl in the photo - it is very lovely! It was fun to find sound healing instruments as we went! We logged over 14,000 steps our first full day and 8 miles yesterday. Michael has enjoyed the Onsen daily and I finally joined (because it was convenient and before 10pm) yesterday at the Snow Monkey park. Yes, I bathed in hot mineral monkey hair water 😂. The snow monkeys drink from and bathe in the hot mineral waters. It was pretty cool hearing the geyser , the rushing mountain runoff and enjoying the stone outdoor onsen and watching the monkeys! First thing I did this morning was grab all my oils for my sore feet! Praise the Lord again for Peppermint and Gary Young!
The tired couple on the train from Tokyo to Nagano after a 14 hour flight and a 5:45 am airport ride and another 2 hour connecting flight. We arrived at our hotel and will spare you the room details for now. We came to see cherry blossoms and were greeted with this amazing orchid display! We woke up 5:30 am local time to a beautiful view of mountains as this small city sits in a mountain valley. The best part of this morning is the hotel breakfast buffet is truly wonderful with many fermented food condiments, great coffee, and a very delicious refreshing fresh beet banana smoothie! Next we will walk a half mile to a castle and the cherry blossoms forecast is today full bloom best viewing! Another adventure we would never have had without Young Living deciding Diamond retreat would be to Okinawa where the ginger grows :). Stay tuned to follow the adventure.
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