Work week... nothing exciting.
Phone commercials here are awesome!
7/24 Thursday:
EARTHQUAKE!!!
Ok... maybe not that major. Anyway, at 12:26 AM there was an earthquake that measured at 6.8 in the north-eastern part of the main island of Japan, which is pretty far from where I'm living... so it really only measured around 3.0 here... but I still felt it :P
Not the best map... I would be somewhere near the bottom right corner of Japan.
7/25 Friday:
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| From Japan 116 |
Mmmm.... peach danish!
Not just any peach danish mind you... "Oishisa mo BIG!" (Yummy and BIG!).
7/26 Saturday:
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| From Japan 117 |
"KAGIYAAA!!!"
Hmm... I think Tamayaa sounds better... Anyway, another fireworks festival! This time in Tokyo. So I found out about a fireworks festival that was happening in Tokyo today so I decided to go see it (since the one I stumbled apon last week was awesome). On the way there, I saw that there were people next to the station in Yokohama playing Taiko drums and (currently resting) portable shrines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoshi Mikoshi). I watched that for a little while (and took some videos). You could really tell they were having a lot of fun. There were two Mikoshi, one was carried by the men, and the other by the women. When they eventually carried them off, they put a little kid (who was wearing almost nothing) on top of the front of the shrine, kinda cute. After that, I went on to Tokyo. It took me a bit to figure out where I was going, but I eventually reached Asakusa. Boy was it crowded. I grabbed a shot of Asakusa's magnificent gate and headed in the direction of the masses of people (there were arrows pointing which way to go, which helped some). This fireworks display is displayed a little differently than the one in Yokohama. Instead of just sitting somewhere to view the fireworks, people are herded across two bridges to view them, with two different fireworks displays on two different sides. To put this graphically: * = fireworks, | = bridge.
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If that makes any sense... anyway, across the first bridge you can see the Asahi Beer Tower (Asahi is a beer company in Japan), noted by it's gold wavy thing on top. Little hard to take pictures when you are being told to keep moving across the bridge. Unfortunately, once you reach the other side, it was hard to find a good spot to actually see the fireworks (too many tall buildings). Eventually I found a spot that wasn't bad. After a while, I headed towards the other bridge and took pictures as I crossed that one. I somehow timed it just right that the fireworks started when I was crossing the first bridge and ended as I crossed the 2nd. Not much else after that, so I headed home. When I got back I decided to take a picture of Ice Cream Soda, yup, that's right, Ice Cream flavored soda... it was actually pretty good, kinda like Melon soda.
7/27 Sunday:
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My "ghetto" drapes.
Heh, finally got around to taking pictures of my silly drapes. I'll get back to that in a second. First, some more fun foods. I bought these kids treats you can make. The first one is kinda neat, you mix to different packets of some powdery stuff with water and then take some plastic thing and fill it with the stuff from one of the mixtures and make little balls from the droplets into the other mixture. Then you mix a 3rd packet with water (I messed up, it should have just been one scoop of water, not several) and create a foam and eat the droplets with the foam. Tastes pretty good. The 2nd candy was simpler to make, just mix two packets of powdery stuff with one scoop of water and eat that with the candy pellets (VERY suggary... a little too sugary). Now for more pictures of my room. First, my futon... not exactly comfortable. Next, the rest of my room (I originally was sleeping where the TV is and kept the TV in the right corner and the table in the left corner. Got tired of leaning my back against the closet door, so moved stuff to a better location. Then, my drapes... if you can call them that. I originally bought the white see-through ones... which didn't really work, cause they were see through (go figure -_-). Then I eventually bought the two small drape-like things and hooked them where the drapes were supposed to hang (the hooks for these were turned the wrong way and there were only two... so I just forced them in). Since my sliding window-door is only see-through from the top part, these (mostly) covered them. Then the rest of my room, and the cute little panda cell phone strap I bought in Yokohama Chinatown. You will notice that it's a little dirty. That's because I found out a little after buying it that, it's not really meant to be used... it got dirty just after using for one day (made me sad). Last is the awesome "soft twist marshmallow" I love. I used to only be able to get these things when we went to Victoria (Canada) for New Years (long ago).
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