안녕히개세요, 일본!

It was Halloween and our last day in Japan. It was off to Osaka Castle!

Cool tree. 

Entrance. 

There was a pretty park type area on the way to the castle. 

I see it!

More little school children with their matching caps. 

Castle. 

Haha. Group picture. 

View from the top. 

Swag. 

Children EVERYWHERE!

Pretty pond. 

Gorgeous. 

On the way out. 

We passed hundreds of high school kids on our way out. They were so excited to say hi to us in English. They were waving at us from afar. It was so cute!

You can see a bunch of them waving in this picture. 

Adorable bus that was in the parking lot. :)

That's all folks! After the castle, we headed to the airport and made our way back to Seoul. Such an awesome trip!

OH WAIT! A few side notes about things that happened at the airport. We saw 4 very attractive, well-dressed boys across the way while we were checking our luggage. They were saying goodbye to a few people and bowing and waving goodbye. We deduced that they had to be Korean. We were somewhat staring/stalking them for a little while. It turned out the we were right behind them in the security line and then the immigration line. One of them spoke to one of us and we found up that, yep, definitely Korean! They looked as though they were K-Pop idols. They then proceeded to run towards their gate as they announced a flight to Seoul Gimpo was having it's final boarding call. Many of us are very familiar with K-Pop but we didn't recognize them. We have since been keeping a lookout for newly-debuting groups to see who they were. But, no such luck yet.....

Also, a couple of the girls in my program ran into Bow Wow at the airport! They even got a picture with him! Life is so random sometimes. 

Gotta love it.