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- Hey guys, it's Micaela
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- Hi, I'm not Micaela.
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- She's not.
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- I'm Rachel
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- Don't be fooled by the red hair, she's an imposter.
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Don't shoot me, she's the copy and then the guys like-
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- Every show ever.
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- Copy right, every clone show ever.
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- Over the past few days Rachel
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has been staying here with me in Fukuoka City.
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(cheering)
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We've been kind of keeping it a secret until now.
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- It's my first time ever coming to Fukuoka, ever.
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I've been hearing about it so much.
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Everyone I've ever talked to who has been to Fukuoka
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I've asked them about it and they're like,
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"Oh Fukuoka is great" and Jun and I are trying
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to figure out where we want to move, cause we have no idea
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like with YouTube and stuff we could really move anywhere
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in Japan we want, it's just a really difficult decision.
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So since I've been hearing so much,
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I decided to come down here and scout out Fukuoka
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to see if I should bring the Jun.
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- So Rachel has been here for a few days already now,
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the first day you came and we went and got pancakes.
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- Oh my God that was the first thing we did,
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it was breakfast.
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I've already had breakfast at six a.m.,
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but it's time for second breakfast.
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- [Micaela] Second breakfast!
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- At eleven, this is breakfast time.
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- [Micaela] Sounds good.
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- [Rachel] Yes.
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- [Micaela] I took Rachel to bibliotheque in Vioro
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it's in the basement first floor of Vioro
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and it is my favorite place to grab pancakes,
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they have like these nice fluffy buttermilk pancakes.
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They're very thick and they serve berry sauce,
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whip cream, cream cheese and ice cream, I think.
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Rachel went with the eggs benedict pancakes
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and she had her egg fried cause she doesn't like runny eggs
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and I got my ultimate favorite which is berry cream cheese.
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Ooohh, a lot of pancakes are hit and miss in Japan
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because they can feel like spongy or dry
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but these ones are just thick, they're moist,
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they're tasty and I like the way that they're decorated
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and I really like the atmosphere of the place
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and then, we went shopping in Tenjin.
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- Yes.
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- Yes, Rachel told me that she really liked recycle shops
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so we headed to Daimyo to check out some
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of the recycle shops in that area.
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I like it, I like the navy blue.
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I think that would look so cute.
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(upbeat music)
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In Daimyo there are a lot of select shops,
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a lot of boutique shops.
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Some of the recycle shops are a little more expensive,
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they're not very, but there was one shop
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that you really liked.
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- Yeah, that one wasn't even a recycle store, right?
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No, it was just a normal one.
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- [Micaela] It's a select shop.
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- [Rachel] I liked the style of the clothes they have there,
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it was all quite unique and it was like,
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cute but still kind of like um-
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- [Micaela] Elegantly?
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- [Rachel] Matureish?
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You know so
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- [Micaela] That was a really cool store.
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- [Rachel] Yeah.
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- And I didn't find the prices there
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to be too expensive either.
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- No, no.
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- [Micaela] Aside from shopping, we also went
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to some of my other favorite spots in Fukuoka City.
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- Oh it's so big, I love it.
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- [Micaela] Yeah, it's really pretty hey?
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We went to Canal City and we checked out a little bit
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of a fountain show, we checked out some shops there
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and then we went to Ohori Park, which is one of
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my favorite parks in the city but
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by then it was getting kind of dark.
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- [Rachel] Yeah, it was like around dinner time.
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Both of those places were really beautiful,
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I'm a super huge nature person.
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I swear it looked like there was a marathon
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but just so many people in the city go there to exercise
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that there would be dozens of people jogging past you,
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like every thirty seconds.
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It was a big park so you really
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get the feel of being back in nature.
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- I love it there too, so I'm glad you liked it.
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The next day, unfortunately, was really rainy
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so we didn't really do much.
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We hung around Hakata Station and Tokyu Hands
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and then we went to the VR Zone arcade,
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which was kind of interesting.
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The first thing we're gonna do is try Mario Cart.
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- They're really nice, they said they'll like hold
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the camera for us and film.
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- Yeah so we can like, see our reactions and stuff.
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Yeah, we did Mario Cart and it was intense,
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it was so funny you can't really tell looking at the clips
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because we just look like a couple of dorks,
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we look like a couple of dorks with goggles
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but they had these hand sensors they put on our arms
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so when we're driving and stuff we can see our hands
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or like if we're waving to each other in the virtual world
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we can see our hands and then you use your hands
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to grab items in the game and then throw them
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so it looks really really funny like to people
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who are watching from the outside
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but in the game it was intense.
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- [Rachel] It feels really realistic,
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one of the items was a hammer too, so you grab the hammer
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and you get a couple uses and you're trying to steer
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and then while you're steering you're hitting people
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with the hammer but then I'm sure people watching you
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are just watching you go like ahh, it looks really dumb.
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Ah man it was so much fun.
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Did you hit people with the hammer?
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- [Micaela] I didn't, I was trying at the end but then like,
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- Your guy, you knocked me out so you finished in third.
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- [Micaela] Yeah, I threw a turtle at you at the end.
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- You're such a jerk
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- [Micaela] Sorry.
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Yesterday Tatsu had some free time so we hopped in the car
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and headed out to Saga Prefecture to check out
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the flowers blooming at Mifuneyama Rakuen,
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which is a very famous flower mountain.
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- [Rachel] Flower mountain.
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- [Micaela] It's flower mountain.
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Rachel is here to visit us and this is somewhere
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that Tatsu really, really wanted to take her
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so Tatsu's been planning this whole trip.
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Thank you, it's so pretty though.
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- It's really nice.
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- It's nice to get out into the mountains
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after spending two days in the city.
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(calm music)
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But we didn't shoot so much there as much as we did
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like a photo shoot.
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- [Rachel] Yeah, we were having too much fun
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taking a lot of pictures so the camera kind of got,
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we started off filming but by the end we were just like,
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let's take pictures here!
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- [Micaela] Let's jump in the vines!
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So we're shooting Rachel in the flowers,
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she's being a very gracious model.
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Now she's doing a great job and Tatsu's getting
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som really great photos too.
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Well except for that one.
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Oh my God, she's like consuming those,
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she's like a flower dinosaur.
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- Am I a flower dinosaur?
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- [Micaela] One thing I think is really interesting
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this time is that having Rachel here I didn't take
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her to a lot of Japanese food restaurants
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but one of the interesting things about Fukuoka City
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that I think makes it so easy to live in as a foreigner
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is the variety of foreign food available here.
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(speaking Japanese)
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(Mexican music playing)
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- [Micaela] I love this.
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(laughing)
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- Oh it doesn't fit.
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That's something, when you move somewhere else,
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you're eventually going to miss some of your home food
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and it might even be weird food that you never even
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ate much at home but you're gonna get cravings
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so eventually you want something from home
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and that's why I really wanted to try out the foreign foods
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here because if we do move here I want to make sure
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that I have food that I can get that I like really
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really love when I'm in that super intense crave
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for Tai food or Mexican food or like an American burger.
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I specifically wanted to explore all of those foods
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that I'm definitely gonna want at some point.
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- Yeah, yeah, so that brings us back to today.
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Today is actually the nicest day out of the four days
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that she's been here, it's finally sunny!
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- Now I'm super intrigued by how beautiful the city is
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in the sunlight with all the trees and everything
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and now I'm hooked and I'm like I have to come back
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and explore more of this in good weather.
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So maybe it's perfect that it ended up this way
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because it's forcing me to come back
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because I need to see more now.
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- Yeah, so now we're heading out to Itoshima
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which is one of the most popular areas in
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Fukuoka Prefecture, it is one of my favorite places
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to spend the warmer days because it's all ocean side,
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there's tons of really cool cafes and when the weather's
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great you can just go down to the beach,
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you can go swimming, there's water sports,
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there's music festivals, there's all these really cool
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things happening out in Itoshima
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that I think Rachel will absolutely love.
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- [Rachel] I'm so excited to see this place.
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I want to come back and swing here.
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- We are living our best life in Itoshima today.
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- Swinging on the trees we are in front of the ocean.
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- It's actually like the best spot to swing,
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if you're gonna swing anywhere.
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- [Rachel] It's a really good swing,
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it's a little crooked though.
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- But you're supposed to do it this way though,
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so it like drops off so if you do it facing the ocean
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you feel like you're going really really high.
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- Oh dang.
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- You should try it, go try it.
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- [Tatsu] What if we disappeared?
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- [Micaela] Should we go hide?
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Did she notice we're gone?
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She doesn't even notice we're gone.
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Okay, she doesn't care, we tried to hide from Rachel
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and she like turned around and noticed we were gone
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and she didn't even care.
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(laughing)
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Dammit!
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- I think this is my favorite part of the trip.
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- [Micaela] It's a lot of fun right?
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- Yeah it's way better facing that way,
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you know the way you're supposed to face.
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- [Micaela] Yeah, when you're facing the ocean
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it's really, it's really nice.
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It feels like you're going so high.
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So we are at Current which is one of the most popular
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restaurant's here in Itoshima City on the coast
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and it is a beautiful day, we've got a beautiful
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sea side view and we just ordered lunch
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and I'm really excited to like see what comes out
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cause the menu changes um depending on the season,
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depending on what ingredients are available
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so you never really know what you're gonna get
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until you get it but it's always good.
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Right now, our Fukuoka amaou strawberries are in season
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so it's kind of not so surprising
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that they've included strawberry with the ham.
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I just love when foods are presented
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with tons of bright colors.
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Tatsu got pasta, Rachel got pork with mustard
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and they put this cute little like flower on top
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and I got the Itoshima pork with the balsamic soy sauce,
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I'm not gonna be able to eat all this,
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Tatsu wants some of it so I'm going
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to be sharing this with Tatsu.
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It's pretty much tradition, like an unsaid tradition,
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that if you come here you have to take an Instagram
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photo in front of these angel wings.
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Just cause it's something everyone does.
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- [Rachel] Are we getting food?
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- [Micaela] Yeah, let's go to Al Pacino.
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Heaven is a banana waffle.