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| Our little International booth. We had signs
for Australia, Britain, Canada, and the US. I drew the British and
American Flags, but our flag only had 6 stars. The girl leaning over the
booth is Chantelle from Canada. |
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Our little game. The kids had to stand a few
feet away and throw a football through the hole. See the sign below it?
I drew that as an explanation. It's very nice I think. |
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| Another bike parking lot. I am standing right
in the middle and look how many there are. It's insane, there must the 7
billion bikes in this small town. |
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Had to get a picture of this. We watched a
concert in the 7-11 parking lot, lit by the headlights of a car. Have I
actually left the South or not? |
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| A kid came up to me and said "sign
please" since they are amazed at Western Signatures. So I said
"ok", then he turned around and screamed "SIGN", and
about 3 dozen kids surrounded me and were screaming "sign
please" and fighting who would be next. I really felt like a star,
it was great. Then BJ came up and I finished and snapped a pic of him.
It took too long to get the camera out to get all the kids around him
though. |
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Jeff in Aizu has the coolest pad. There is
another room off to the right, and he has a huge bathroom and shower
room. My whole apartment could fit in there probably three times. It
makes me sick, plus he only pays $80 a month rent. Arrrrgggghhh. |
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| Meg wanted to see how the cheesy Chinese type
hat looked before she bought it. She didn't buy it. |
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Cute little kid with a mohawk. He just stared
at me while the flash warmed up for the pic. I could tell he was
thinking "what is this guy doing, snap the dang picture
already". |
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| A huge monolith in the middle of the woods. I
think they carved it out of a huge rock and just kept carving it down
and then engraved the letters. Of course it was done in something insane
like 400 AD, probably by slaves. But it was huge and in the middle of no
where. |
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Samurais had to crawl through this cave from
the other side of the mountain to this side to avoid being killed. Even
though moments later they looked from the mountain and saw their castle
burning and killed themselves. It was actually a rice field behind the
castle burning. |
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| Nice contrast of old tradition and modern
convenience. It cost $2 to ride it up. I should have paid. |
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A really old shrine in the woods on the side
of the mountain. The front had a really cool carving which is partially
visible in the picture. |
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| A portable shrine in the parade at Kawamata. |
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This way to wizz. |
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| The Aizu castle. It was built in 1300. How
could they possibly have known how to build things like this back then?
You can pay to walk to the top, which we did. the inside was more modern
than the outside with stairs and such, but still cool. There were parts
where you could see the old old parts. |
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Why on earth does this little 1/4 ton truck
need 6 wheels? What does that allow it to carry another 100 pounds? The
whole thing is maybe 8 feet long, it can't possibly need all that
support. |
