bwb's blog » japan http://www.mojud.com/blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:46:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My Favorite Thing I Got In Japan http://www.mojud.com/blog/2010/03/14/my-favorite-thing-i-got-in-japan/ http://www.mojud.com/blog/2010/03/14/my-favorite-thing-i-got-in-japan/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:02:30 +0000 bwb http://www.mojud.com/blog/?p=1032 It is awesome, I feel like some sort of frog ninja in it.

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Fun times.

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Explanation of each picture and comments if you click through to the picture…. These are roughly in chronological order of the above trip outline too.

Super weird subway ad. Temple in Tokyo... Fire from the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima in the temple. Burning for the hope nuclear weapons be abolished. Cool shot of crows, just got my new camera don't blame me. Park in Tokyo, although more a swamp I thought (uuneo) Cool tree lights at Uueno park. Closeup of tree... Tree lights part 2. Subway map, just above ground. For a color blind person this was like having a heard attack, luckily it wasn't too bad. Scenery as I head north on trains. Weird 50 yen piece, hole in it. Train scenary as I move north, lots of snow. Panoramic of my ice breaking boat. Coast near Abashari. Ice Breaking Boat Boat Again... Ice Slushy, global warming has killed the actual ice. More Ocean ice... Ocean was beautiful. Ice ice ice, on the freaking ocean. And more... And more! Shot from deck level... panoramic for fun's sake. My little japenese room. Bed is so comfortable, I like the windows too. Little kid table, everyone in japan is sitting at one. Snow White Japan Style You are right I have no freaking idea what this says either, says snow white. Ummm, i promise I won't set you on fire comb? Jap Vending Machines Boss Temple Kyoto Temple or palace arch. Closeup. Palace in Kyoto, Royal one. Kyto palace panoramic. The fort section of the palace area. Beautiful gardens too. Ariel shot of palace area. House In Kyoto Colorado Coffee in Japan? Saw a few of these. Painting I liked. Beautiful temple in the moutains. Tons of these, was amazing. Dragon washing area. Dragon spit water. Wash your hands first, then water to mouth and spit out. To be clean before going into temple. Note to self, water from the spout, don't drink the water people spit in, lesson learned the hard way by a laughing priest. Cool shadows... I just got this camera don't blame me for all these shots. Hiroshima, a very somber exp. One of few buildings in Hiroshima that was partially standing, rebuilt out of ruiens as memorial. Thank you, I will! Ferry to the island, I have video of the rolling motions if you want to get sick. My awesome hike. Weird sign. Beautiful beautiful place. And more of this amazing island... Cool stairs down the path. Very old tree. So amazing and tall, I wish you could see a person to see to scale how massive this tree was. Bridges are awesome And more of this amazing island... Monkeys, I have a hilarious video of them scaring the hell out of me. Totally walked into a wild pack of them in the hike. And more of this amazing island... Tall Tall2 The trees were just amazing, curvy, just like the movies that the director made who was inpsired by them. Curvy trees. And more of this amazing island... Path along the water. And more of this amazing island... Me. Me 2 so you can see how big the tree is. Info on one tree and another! Sorry NBA, Japan made you a bus association. View from place I stayed. View looking back at island and huge moutain forest area. Kagoshima - huge freaking volcano just sitting there. Taken from train stop. Southern country side. Southern country side 2. Cutest thing in Tokyo. Temple in Tokyo and Gina taking a picture. Gina and Eunah reading prayers left, some were very funny and or moving. Prayer tree. Prayer tree... Police cars in japan have weird lights? Eunah really really loves dogs and needs to get one! They were both very happy as they got some delicious crape with chocalate and cream cheese and it was pretty delicious. This will haunt my nightmares. So cool Royce had a used clothing store, on the 3rd floor of some back alley. Super weird place. No idea? Awesome building! hilarious hilarious hilarious Cool ad... This was super super intimidating, so so so many people. I agree, party welcome! She really needs to get a dog! Tokyo department store trying on funny hats :), although not sure what this was as we were as confused as the english description. Haunt my dreams. Cool design cool design 2 Cool scuplture at night with glowing eyes, buddhist demon i believe. Couldn't capture it well though. Weird mural. Part of mural. Chocalate sparkling water, ya, it was good though. Day trip to try to see mt fuji but fog too thick. Pirate ship? check I swear to god i will never touch doubtful things... Gondala ride! Tree tops. Helish landscape! WEird sign Saying goodbye and one last photo! one more hilarious picture! Awesome moutain landscape (even though we couldn't see fuji) From Gondala, sorry eunah blocking you with my big head! Awesome bad ass pirate ship, couldn't ride it as had to leave though :(

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Weird egg sandwich... good though! Delicious soup. Stuff dough thing like hawaii! My Fav Meal! Box Meal 1 Box Meal 2 Yes I do put ? on food items. Train Menu Uplifting? Box Meal 3 Random collection... It was interesting though... Yum Desert? Rice With Crab Flakes? Crab Flake Closeup Menu From Fanciest Meal I had

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My favorite Japanesism yet:

Ben: Do you have sandwich package x? (to train trolly girl)
Train Girl: (in broken english) Sorry we are out, do you want rice with crab flakes on it?
Ben: YES!!! (and i was thinking why did she even ask!!! I love rice with crab flakes on it!!!!)

They were delicious.

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Work is going well, and just got really busy as we took on some additional business which is quite fun!

Travel wise the year is looking awesome. In a few months I’m taking a few weeks vacation to explore Japan! Then in April I’m going to Italy for a short weekend trip as Iris got a bid to Paganello (massive ultimate beach tournament), and I’m going to play with her mixed team. Extra fun as it should be a lot of Arkansas people and hopefully Daniel and Joel go. And then me and a friend scored tickets to the World Cup in South Africa which I will be going too in early July. South Africa is being nuts on airfare pricing but its a once in a life time opportunity, so worth it.

Oh, and I’m trying to complete the 100 Book Challenge for 2010, which means I’m trying to read 100 books in 2010. So roughly 9 books a month, so far I’m almost done with my 4th and almost on track. I’m posting mini reviews as I go too.

Also, here is an interview we did a few months ago for Work, I’m pretty proud of it as we don’t sound like idiots. Although I did repeat a lot of words over and over and over, oh well, she was really nice and it was fun!

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