The next day we were picked up and brought to church by a woman named Michicko. She works at the World Friendship Centre in Hiroshima and knows some of the people at KAC/Connexus so we were connected to her. We didn't understand anything of the service except for the familiar tunes in the Christmas hymns. After the service we stayed for lunch which was followed by some amazing musical performances from some of the people as well as a gift opening. Here is Mark and Michicko. She is a really kind woman. She also organized a tour of the Peace Park for us as well as meeting with an a-bomb surviver.
That night we went out for some sushi. The first restaurant we tried we walked in and said "sushi?", the waitress said "no,no" and walked with us for about three blocks to a different restaurant that served sushi. We were pretty impressed...what service. So, at the sushi restuarant we had no idea what to order so we asked our waitress to bring us what she would recommend (we said this in Japanese using our "Lonely Planet" book). After watching them take some fish out of their tank we were brought this plate. Some of it was really good...but some of it also almost made me gag.
The next day, Christmas Eve, we took a ferry to an island just outside of Hiroshima called Miyajima. There were deer walking around every where. I'm pretty proud of myself that I had the courage to pet one.
Here is a famous structure just off of the island. It's on all of the postcards...I forget the name of it.
We hiked up one of the mountains on the island. It was so beautiful and peaceful! Almost no people around which is something we don't experience very often. There was a sign that we shouldn't feed the monkeys...but sadly we didn't see any. The hike was really difficult though...so many stairs! We were pretty exhausted when we got to the top but the view made it so worth it! It was so beautiful!
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