Next weekend K and I are going on another tour, yay! But other then that not much is up between school and work. Oh, I figured out I have 88 credits completed, so that leaves 32, so technically I only need 10 or so more classes till I’m done with my degree. Buuut, I think some of them aren’t usable for the degree program I’m in here >< I’m still working on finding out how many more classes I officially need. At most I’m thinking 20 classes, but I sure hope not XD

Here’s some random pics of stuff I picked recently that I finally got around to photographing XD

This one is a hand towel I picked up in a gift shop when we went to Hiraizumi.

This is a Koi-nobori. Koi-nobori are flown around the middle to end of April till May 5th, the 5th is Children’s Day, but used to be known as Boy’s Day. The koi-nobori are flown in hopes of that the boys in the household will grow up strong and healthy. -wikipedia, Koi-nobori

Mine aren’t near as big as the real ones get, I got mine at a store in the mall on the pinwheel, inside the tube that the pinwheel is on was filled with little rock candies. I’m guessing you buy them as presents for boys on Children’s Day because not a lot of houses put up the large ones. Also a lot of people live in apartments now a days so they really don’t have anywhere to put them up.

These are gashapon machines in a local mall. I wrote about them in an earlier post More Random Stuff. This is just a small section of the area they’re in, and some places have rows and rows and walls lined with the machines.