Pickin' wildflowers
Trip Start
Aug 20, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 01, 2009
Juso,
Japan
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Cool shot of the Umeda skyline
As I may have mentioned before our apartment is about a 2 block walk to the Yodogawa River. This is the river that separates Juso from Umeda which is downtown Osaka City. Another teacher mentioned to me one day that there was a wildflower garden along the river where you can go and cut fresh flowers.
Me in the flower fields
So, I somehow managed to convince KJ to go check it out with me. Despite the fact he thought the Japanese police were going to haul us away, he went and I cut us a nice bunch of flowers while he snapped away on the camera.
The purple field
There were purple ones and orange ones although they looked to be the same type of flower. At one point a very nice Japanese woman and her daughter walked up to us and offered to take our picture together in front of the flowers.
The river and river bank
Of course she didn't speak English and we don't speak Japanese so we were just crossing our fingers this wasn't a scam! But since Japan is most possibly the SAFEST country in the world, she politely snapped a few pictures of us and then we offered to do the same of her and her daughter.
The picture the nice Japanese lady took of us
After all was said and done she smiled, said thanks and walked away. Japan is such a funny country. 
