Hello, lovely people of LiveJournal. For those of you who don't read lokaichan, I should inform you that on the 17th I arrived in Japan and have been pretty busy and crazy for the past four days. Also, my laptop isn't working so right now my posts may be few and far between.

I had to write about today, though. Today I made ( my first pilgrimage to Takarazuka since I've been back. )

I mentioned to mon_bouche a while back that I might do a post like this, and today I was looking at all my photos from Japan and felt inspired. Two days before I left Japan, I went to Takarazuka City one last time and took a bunch of pictures, and now I shall share those pictures with all of you. ^__^

( A place that is dear to all our hearts... )

[Note: Again, cropping out everything but the 'Zuka bits makes it fairly short...]Yesterday was my last trek to Takarazuka. I honestly was feeling really sad about about leaving, and I found myself just wandering in a big circle inside Quatre Reves looking at everything one last time. Fortunately I was good enough to resist at least a few things, ( Read more... )

[Note: This entry started off with descriptions of the barbeque/party I went to with Frank and Paul for Frank's kyuudo (Japanese archery) club.]The party was on Rokko Island, which is where John lives, so we figured we'd call and harass him. Unfortunately, by the time he got to the party, it was already ending. T___T;; So after some talking we ( Read more... )

[Note: Dahahahaha I can't believe it's only been three months since I wrote this. Re-reading my first comments on Takarazuka is really funny to me. ^^;; And obviously anyone reading this journal shouldn't need an explanation of the basics, but I'm leaving it in there because I want these backlogs to be mostly un-tampered with. And because it amuses ( Read more... )