DIAMOND PRINCESS AT SEA FROM TOBA TO OSAKA

Welcome champagned on Formal Night.

Then dinner at Sabbatini's.

Frescobaldi wine from Tuscany was featured. But we instead had Bertani Amarone from the Valpolicella region of Verona, Italy.

With white wine and gin martini.

Appetizers.

My grand soup.

A misti assortment.

A couple of shrimp dishes,

My dinner of mushroom risotto and ossobuco.

Panna Cotta dessert.

On to karaoke.

Final stop at Skywalker's Night Club

Only 3126 steps on Day 2 of cruise.

We arrived in the Port of Osaka the morning of Day 3. We are berthed almost alongside the largest aquarium in the World, Kaiyukan. I've been to Osaka at least 50 times. Here is my posting of almost exactly two years ago, which described this city, and showed a photo of whale sharks in this aquarium. They are today called Kai and Yu

Went early for lunch, so breakfast was still being served. A concoction of rice, miso soup. hash, sunny side egg and natto. to start, with a Bloody Mary.

Second course of ramen, etc., with a beer.

We of course spent two days this past spring in Osaka for their world's fair. Day One and Day Two. We stayed at the Marriott Miyako Hotel, located near the top of the Abeno Harukas 300 meter (984 feet) building, which was the tallest skyscraper in Japan until the Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower was completed in 2023 at 1067 feet in Tokyo. Two photos, with the shiny Abeno Harukas in the photo to the left and a sunset view from the top.

Tomorrow, our departure from Osaka for Taipei, Taiwan.

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