March 2006

Ya so Hannami is a big deal here . The cherry blosumes come out and people go to the park and get drunk. No Really. I Japan there is a oneness with nature thing, but there is so little real nature here. So what to do? Well how about cram into a park, a small one. The Japanese way is to cram together in small places, trains, buses, and parks the tighter the better. I wont even get into my morrning comute which is way chill compared to most. Here are some pictures of the chaos. Knotice the Drunken Japanese every where pretty flowers and pizza delivery men. check it out. OK so I lost the Hannami pictures while exchanging my old phone for a new one and then back to the old one. Oh well here is a picture of what it looks like minus the crowds beer and pizzamen.

So I haven't posted anything lately cause I have been busy with my new job. It is pretty tough to think you know all the tricks and then find out you don't know shit! I do miss Panache a little just cause I had it soooooooooo easy there. But you are never going to make it to the top takin the easy road. So whats been going on Me on the train. I am smiling cause I got a seat. The first pics that came up were from our great strawberry picking adventure. In America you pay about 1 dollar for a quart of strawberry's that you go out and pick your self. The price maybe slightly higher now but that is what I remember. Japan as always is a little different. The adventure starts as most adventures in Japan do getting in a car and driving a hour. After that you pay 15 dollars per adult and 10 dollars for kids to go inside a green house with a small dish that has a some icing in it and eat strawberry's for 30 minutes. This is Japan at its funniest. Here are some of the pics of that and well it was fun for Eric so I didn't really mind that much. I saw a angel in Shibuya crossing. So there are a bunch of other things going on aughh Eric and I went to the Gotemba outlet mall and I took a bunch of pictures. He really likes having his picture taken. I had some time off before I started my new job and Eric and I went to a English class together at my friends English school. We had fun and I my friend said Erics English is good but he should start going to English school soon..... I am working on it. For anyone in Numazu or Gotemba interested in English lesons please check out Brents English School and Bar "Speak EZ" Brent has a very innovative approach to scheduling and teaching. Check it out! Anouther day we went to my friends bar and watched the band set up and after that we went to a game center and played a few games. Finally I went snowboarding in Hakuba Japan. It was really cool. I still suck at snowboarding and I smashed my self up the first day so bad I did not want to go back the second day. I went with my bro Scott and he was awesome. Here are some shots of us as we climbed to the top of the peak for a photo op. Oh ya and finally Eric and I went to see Ultraman! It was pretty cool. There was like a fun part where they clapped and sang along and then there was the show where a bunch of Ultramen jumped and kicked and fought thier way throught there enemys. It was fun here is a pic of Eric with Ultraman.