Saturday, November 29, 2008

Joy and Brian

Hello!!!

Some of you may know that my friends, Brian and Joy, have moved out here to Japan. Currently they live in Zushi which is near the Yokosuka Base where Brian works for the Navy.

I went down last night (Friday, which was also Thanksgiving day for America)and we all got to go out the dinner. Afterward we walked to their house which is a good 30 minute walk from their house. Pretty crazy. What was even weirder was that right before I got to their station some random person gave them a Fugu which is a type of blow fish. . .in a 1liter bottle. It was a baby so it was tiny but they had NO idea what it was or what really to do with it. Joy said we should toss it out into the river on our way back but Brian and I thought they should try and keep it. Maybe Joy's idea would have been better because by morning it was dead. . . sleeping at the bottom of the bottle all upside down. It was kind of sad actually.

Today, Joy and I headed to the Navy base since I've never really been on a base much. Once at the Fussa base in Tokyo but just to go to a house for lunch but never to walk around really. It was interesting. We went and got a piece of American pizza for lunch and we got to go on Brian's boat and he gave us a tour. Oh, he had to work that day. We also got some rootbeer floats at A and W which was weird. It was weird to basically be back in America essentially. Really weird. And there were no stop signs or lights. I saw one light on the base and that was about it. weird.

but here are some pics for our day.


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Brian has issues with smiling. . . he has to make himself laugh. Weird huh? :)

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Take 2 :)

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The poor Fugu. . .

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Joy and their house!!!!

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Walking to the station.

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The leaves are changing. . . a bit late but still beautiful

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That is the river JOy wanted to toss the Fugu in . . .

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Koi in the river! Huge koi

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Us at the station

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Brian's boat

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Brian trying to smile again :) hahahhahahha

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ghahhahahhahhaha

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The Washington. . a huge aircraft carrier

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With Brian we always take two pics. . .the first one was nice. .

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It's the second one that came out odd. . .ggggrrrrrreat.

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good ol American pizza

Monday, November 24, 2008

Disney Sea

Hello Everyone,

Sorry it has been awhile again. Today I went to Disney Sea with my friend, Mai, from work. We had a lot of fun. It rained from the middle of the day but it was okay since a lot of people left after that.

Disney Sea was pretty cool since I'd never been there before. I liked it ALOT more then California Adventure!!! 100 x's better. It had more of the Disney feel to me and it has some pretty fun rides in it. Indiana Jones is in this one and so is Journey to the center of the earth, Tower of Terror, etc. There are different lands like there is an American land which is pretty cool but a change since we were in Japan. We went and saw a Broadway performance while we were there too. It was a Christmas Jazz performance.

I do have to say that the shopping is better in America and I think that some of the food is much better in America. . .like dinner type meals are better in America BUT snacky type foods are better here in Japan. But in America all the lines are very short compared to JApan. . .I had to wait for 2 hours for the Broadway show and even the line for food is extremely long.

If you come to Japan I definetely recommend going to Disney Sea. I haven't been to Land since I'm sure it's very similar but I hope to go before heading back to the States but we'll see. Maybe I'll get to go when my folks come out to see me.

Here are some pics.


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Everything was set up for Christmas

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my ticket

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How cute is the monorail!!!!



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I wanted one of these handles

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More Christmas decorations. . .tinkerbell

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Travel to the center of the earth mountain

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A little cute boat.

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People


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The World :)

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Mai

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Me

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cool area near the Center of the Earth

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Us

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Me eating a black sesame churro!!!


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Mai eating one too

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Funny sign for a ride

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snake head
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thought of Aubs

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Us on the train inside Disney Sea

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Cool toilet sign

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The Titanic

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Christmas

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Triton's World

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Coolllll

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Dang it!

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at night

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The world at night

So I just uploaded all those pictures and for some reason they came in thumbsize and I'm too tired to upload bigger ones.. . sorry. :(


Melody