Now this is what I call a welcome. Dancers, drummers, instrumentalists and comedians. Very colorful costumes and they were there for a good hour performing for us. I hope to see more of these welcomes as we go around Japan.

Cheju is the largest of the Korean Islands and I was quite surprised that it has a couple of very large cities. We didn’t have enough time in port to do it justice so I must come back to Korea. It was clean and the people happy, unlike the Chinese. We only had 4 hours there which is strange. I will see if I can get an answer on why we were there such a short time.

We saw the most awesome performance called Nanta . A combination of dancing, acrobatics, juggling, and comedy all set in a kitchen where the cooks are preparing a wedding feast. The instruments were knives, strainers, pots, pans, bowls, water bottles, etc. They billed it as the Marx Brothers meet Benihana. Vegetables were being chopped in rhythm and were flying.

The cherry blossoms were in bloom so hopefully we will see the same in Japan.