Pictures

I mostly just wanted to post some pictures of things we have been doing, or shots we have taken that we didn't use.

This is another beautiful garden around Nikko. I can just picture a Shogun strolling through the garden trying to come to peace.

This is another picture from the temple in Nikko. They carry these shrines during parades when they hold celebrations or festivals. I can't even imagine what that thing must weigh. They dont build things out of small wood here. I also wouldn't want to think about carrying that thing up the hills around here.

I don't think we included a lot of pictures of the planes from the friendship festival that we went to. I was amazed at how close we were able to get, and I was also amazed at the size of the jets. I have seen a lot of jets flying overhead when I lived in Phoenix, but they seem a lot bigger when you are standing next to them. And the cargo planes that they have seem enormous once there are a bunch of people standing next to them.

For all of you car lovers, I was really excited the first time I saw a GT-R in a parking lot. It is even cooler looking in person than it is in all the magazines and pictures.

This is a typical doorway in Japan. You know that if they had anything like this in the States that they would all be broken or stolen, but here, I think people just take them as they need them and then leave them for the next person. You will never be without an umbrella in japan.

I don' know if we have shown a picture of the window of a restaurant yet, but this is typically how the food is displayed and in some instances we have had to walk our server outside to point at what we wanted. At times I feel really foolish that I don't know Japanese.

One of the stores in the mall sells stretchy business casual pants, and they are all sold in tubes. I was mostly amused by the manaquins on display.

Because everyone rides bikes here, they have started making underground parking areas for bikes, and they even installed a bicycle escalator at one store just so they had a way to get them out easier. There is also a picture of what the bike areas often look like.

Well, I think that is it. The program keeps freezing up, so I hope you appreciate the pictures that I was able to post. Have a good day and keep reading the blog.

Quinn