Today marks my second anniversary of living in Japan ( Read more... )

The good, interesting pictures! Yay!

Our last two days in Taipei were the most interesting. On Wednesday, we headed to downtown Taipei to see Taipei 101, the world's second tallest building.


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Part One here

On Monday morning, we left tropical Kaohsiung and headed back north to Taipei, where we spent the rest of our trip.

After we got to Taipei, we discovered that there was a floral exhibition at the train station nearest to our hotel. Rather, it was over, but all of the gardens were still there.


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 We left Naruto early on Saturday morning, and landed in Taiwan in the early afternoon.  We made our way through Customs, and immediately hopped a bus to the High Speed Railway station, where we took a train to tropical southern Taiwan and the city of Kaohsiung.


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 Some pictures from this year, taken today in Tokushima and Kochi prefectures.    Hopefully I'll get more tomorrow.  :D


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 The first thing we did Christmas morning was go to Tsukigi Fish Market.

However, the place was SO CROWDED, that the only picture I have from there is on my phone, and it's of B eating sushi.  >.<   It was a really interesting place.  SUPER crowded.  A lot of the barkers trying to get you to eat at their stall were dressed as Santa, though, so that ( Read more... )

After visiting the temple in Asakusa, I wasn't feeling well, so we went back to our room and I crashed out for an hour. I felt loads better after waking up, and so we decided to go to Shinjuku. It was amazing!


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 I finally got (half) my pictures uploaded from my trip!

Day One:

Got up pretty early (6:30) to get ready and catch a bus to Kobe.  This is Slopey.  He takes us from the bus station to the bus stop on the expressway.  Once in Kobe, we grabbed some tickets on hopped on a shinkansen (bullet train) to Tokyo.  The tickets were expensive, but the ( Read more... )

 It's been awhile, so have some ham-hams.

Sadly, Lando Hamrissian doesn't like posing for pictures, so this one was the best I could do.  Ham Solo has the milder personality, and so tolerates it for short periods.


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Today B and I took a drive in the mountains of Shikoku, and snagged some pictures. I didn't take many because there weren't many places to pull off on the side of the road... you'll see why in one of the pictures!

The pictures also don't do the colors justice. Especially since I didn't manage to get a picture of what I think were Japanese maple ( Read more... )