Change of Plans
In this entry, I mentioned I was going to be by myself this weekend & was thinking about going to visit the coast. Well, that kind of changed! After doing some research, I found out getting to either Minami Sanriku or Kesennuma would involve a lot of train switching & over 4 hours of travel, one-way. I kind of abandoned that & thought about going to Ishinomaki or Matsushima. Ishinomaki is a city (much closer!) partially destroyed in the tsunami, &, well, you should know Matsushima. :)
After more thinking, I decided to just stay in downtown Sendai, afterall. (Y agreed with me - turns out he was a little freaked out with me going to the coast by myself, in case another big earthquake struck.)
So I went with Yasutomo, & we parted ways at Sendai station. I decided to take the path I used to always take before we started dating: every Sunday, I would take the subway to Sendai station then walk through the shopping arcades to Kotoudai Kouen then take the subway back. :) I picked a pretty good day to do it, too! Parco is doing a special Jang Geun Suk "room" right now. (The line was massive!) They're going to do a temporary JUMP store next week, too, but I don't think I'll be able to go. :( When I reached Kotoudai, I saw a bunch of tents set up, so I went to take a look. They're going a Tohoku fair! Large booths were setting up for each prefecture in Tohoku (I couldn't find Aomori, though, LOL.), & then seperated again by major cities. They were selling famous foods, handmade goods, & giving some free stuff. A lot of it was to support the reconstruction effort. :) I got a "Kokoro - Hitotsu ni narou" bracelet. <3!
Now, now, now, in this post, I was asked to take some pictures, & I did, yay! I also took a bunch of pictures from today along with the things I bought. (Since Yasutomo is gone for the weekend, we didn't do our usual Friday night grocery shopping, so I had a little extra money. >;])
Pachinko - ganbare!
& here I am, driving to work, yay,
The amount of greenery dramatically increased as I get closer to my junior high school.
Just walking out of Sendai station. (BTW, all the construction was there before the earthquake!)
It smelled good!
At the Tohoku fair, they had a small petting zoo!
The booths.
Popular characters for the cities/prefectures. Where's Musubimaru?!
The stage schedule.
Today's goodies. :) A tomato-shaped timer to use in class, stickers for game winners, a fridge walrus(1), a necklace holders, Disney's Vinylmation(2), & nanbu goma senbei from the fair.
The characters I got + walrus. :)
& stickers.
(1) - You put him in the fridge, & everytime you open the door, he says something. Apparently, he starts getting chatty if you leave the door open for too long - eco-friendly!
(2) - Do Disney stores in America have these? They started coming out last year here. I've been wanting to collect them for a while, so I finally decided to start my collection today. :)
After more thinking, I decided to just stay in downtown Sendai, afterall. (Y agreed with me - turns out he was a little freaked out with me going to the coast by myself, in case another big earthquake struck.)
So I went with Yasutomo, & we parted ways at Sendai station. I decided to take the path I used to always take before we started dating: every Sunday, I would take the subway to Sendai station then walk through the shopping arcades to Kotoudai Kouen then take the subway back. :) I picked a pretty good day to do it, too! Parco is doing a special Jang Geun Suk "room" right now. (The line was massive!) They're going to do a temporary JUMP store next week, too, but I don't think I'll be able to go. :( When I reached Kotoudai, I saw a bunch of tents set up, so I went to take a look. They're going a Tohoku fair! Large booths were setting up for each prefecture in Tohoku (I couldn't find Aomori, though, LOL.), & then seperated again by major cities. They were selling famous foods, handmade goods, & giving some free stuff. A lot of it was to support the reconstruction effort. :) I got a "Kokoro - Hitotsu ni narou" bracelet. <3!
Now, now, now, in this post, I was asked to take some pictures, & I did, yay! I also took a bunch of pictures from today along with the things I bought. (Since Yasutomo is gone for the weekend, we didn't do our usual Friday night grocery shopping, so I had a little extra money. >;])
Pachinko - ganbare!
& here I am, driving to work, yay,
The amount of greenery dramatically increased as I get closer to my junior high school.
Just walking out of Sendai station. (BTW, all the construction was there before the earthquake!)
It smelled good!
At the Tohoku fair, they had a small petting zoo!
The booths.
Popular characters for the cities/prefectures. Where's Musubimaru?!
The stage schedule.
Today's goodies. :) A tomato-shaped timer to use in class, stickers for game winners, a fridge walrus(1), a necklace holders, Disney's Vinylmation(2), & nanbu goma senbei from the fair.
The characters I got + walrus. :)
& stickers.
(1) - You put him in the fridge, & everytime you open the door, he says something. Apparently, he starts getting chatty if you leave the door open for too long - eco-friendly!
(2) - Do Disney stores in America have these? They started coming out last year here. I've been wanting to collect them for a while, so I finally decided to start my collection today. :)