This is the last day of 2006. The weather was about 6 degrees today quite nice. We had to check out of our hotel in Kyoto today so we left our luggage at the hotel while we rode around Kyoto for a few hours. We rode down a little mall which actually wasn’t so little. This was the first lot of shops that we saw in Kyoto because the other days we rode to different shrines and temples. We didn’t have a lot of time today to ride far away so we just rode to the mall which was close by. We found a place called Mister Donut where we ate breakfast. It was absolutely delicious. We tried a few varieties of donuts and it only cost for Steve and I around 600 yen. This filled our stomachs up! After breakfast we looked in some shops in the mall. Marie and I bought a little coin purse. Steve and Marie found some jackets that they bought for 10000 yen – quite cheap. After the mall we returned our bikes that we rented and made our way with all our luggage to Osaka by train. It took around 30 minutes. When we got to Osaka we had about an hour to explore the North side of Osaka before we met up with Yujin’s family. We went to a restaurant that they booked for New Years Eve. The food was very unique and different to what we are used to. It was like the Great River Korean where you cook your own food on BBQ’s.
We tried raw beef which I was hesitant to try but tried it and thought it was ok. We tried tongue, stomach and some other beef. It was all delicious. After dinner we went to a little tiny pub. It was very cute but we were the only ones in there. 
It was weird because you would expect on New Years Eve to see lots of people everywhere, but where we were it was very quiet. Most people were at shrines and temples. We left Osaka at around 1am and Yujin’s dad drove us back to Wakayama where Yujin’s family live. We are staying in a guest house which is beautiful and the countryside around us is awesome! We will be in this house for next 3 days.
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