Getting reorganized

Our new departure date is getting close - only 11 days, not counting today.

I am walking a lot this week and bought a new pedometer with a 14 day memory. I have worn out two of pedometers since I started walking and bought another that did not work well - did not like the functions on it.

Yesterday, we rescheduled the reservations for the bus and the accommodations for the first two nights. Since we are leaving on Sunday, the Shinkansen schedule is different and there is no early high speed train. This means that we won't arrive in Osaka until 11:26, rather than at ten thirty as in the original itinerary. This in turn will mean a one o'clock bus departure and an arrival at the start of the Henro at around 4 p.m.

Temple #2 where we will stay Sunday night wants us to check in before five and Temple #1 closes the shop at five. I suspect that when we include the walking between the temples, we will not be able to buy our outfits until Monday morning.

Another change is that on Monday night we will stay at Temple #7 rather than #6 as originally planned. Before calling I had planned on staying at #7 but they were taking a day off so we had to change to #6. This time when we called #6, they were taking a night off so we made the reservation at #7, which seems to have a few more features for Ohenro-san.

In any case everything is arranged and we are all set to go.