http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com My adventures in Japan! Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Late last month K and I visited Swan Lake to take a walk, a fairly regular occurrence except that I remembered to bring my camera. XD There were a few more swans there this time, I think because this is along their migratory path. I often wonder why ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/12/18/recent-trip-to-swan-lake/   Wheh, been a while. Lot’s ‘o school and work >< The Terms this year are blah, this Sunday the term I’m currently in ends, and Monday the new one begins. >< This last term I took and interesting class called The Psychology of Persuasion, and this coming term I’m taking ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/11/08/oirase-gorge/ Yarr Matey!  Well, it was actually on the 19th arr, but I worked so I didn't have time to get online at home arrr. XD Here's my Pirate name grr :D what's yours arrr? Mad Bess Bonney Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/09/21/talk-like-a-pirate-day/   This weekend we took another trip, this time to Yamadera Temple in Yamagata Prefecure.  It's a famous holy site because it houses a 1100 year old flame in a Buddhist temple brought from a big temple in Kyoto, which was brought from a temple in China, and it's been burning ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/09/15/yamadera-temple/ The third day of our trip we headed back home, but on our way we drove to the Abukuma-do caves.  The caves are right next to the Hoshi no Mura ("Village of Stars") Observatory, but we didn’t have a chance to go to the observatory.  ; ;  But ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/09/11/fukushima-day-3/   The first place we saw on our second day of the trip was Goshiki-numa, the 5 Colored Ponds.  We started off at the foot of the trail which has a nice visitor center and restaurant.  Bishamon-numa, the first pond, which was a beautiful blue and we saw some people feeding ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/09/08/fukushima-day-2/ Last week K and I went to Fukushima Prefecture for a couple days.  We had a fun time and saw some really nice stuff.   It was kinda rainy on the way down, but it made some cool looking misty mountains.  When we got settled in we went to ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/09/07/fukushima-day-1/ I made this a couple months ago on my other blog  and finally got around to posting it XD  Hope you enjoy! For those using Firefox I've noticed there's an issue with it playing the music.  The music is very soft for the first 5 seconds, then gets louder, if no sound ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/09/04/a-scenic-journey-through-northern-japan/ Video clips of the 2008 Aomori Nebuta Festival. I apologize for the somewhat lengthy pauses between the videos.  If I didn't include them, half the time the videos skip the first half before it catches up. http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/08/29/nebuta-videos/   Yay! Got my computer’s CD-rom working, the old one had gone bad XD Almost a month ago now I went to the Aomori Nebuta festival for the second year, this time with a friend too. It was a lot of fun, hot, but fun. ^^ I finally got my new camera ... http://blog.sanriotown.com/kawaii_ninja:hellokitty.com/2008/08/29/nebuta-matsuri-2008/