Adventures in Japan

Mizu

Carla did not come with us to Miyajima, she hopped on the bullet train so she could work for two days. We soldiered on in her absence.


The day we spent in the museum was a much warmer day than this day we spent mainly out of doors and near water.

The weather was not nice was, but Miyajima was. It was also full of deer, which I was not expecting. So even though Nate missed out on Nara, he still got in some prime deer taunting.


The big thing to do out Miyajima way is to take pictures of the big red gate out there in the water. So we snapped some pics of that.



And of this big pagoda.


And of this... thing.


In order to walk in this... place, we had to take off our shoes. And put on too small slippers. It was cold. After that, we decided to break for lunch. Lunch was tasty. It was about this time that I noticed that my camera was having some serious issues. Not so much the camera as the memory card. It turns out that it was just too big. My old camera can't keep up with all these new fangled memory cards.


After lunch, we poked around and took more pictures of stuff. It seems they have an aquarium out there. An aquarium that closed just before we got there and wouldn't open again for another week.

Also: GIANT SPOON!


As the sun began to set and the wind picked up, we decided to get outta there. So we did.



What else did we do that day? Oh! We karaoke'd. It was good stuff. The highlights of this time out were Trev's Morrisey, Nate's Grandmaster Flash, Nate and Kim's duet and... at least one other thing.


After Karaoke, it snowed. Nice, big, thick, fluffy snow. It ain't seen snow like that in years. At least two and a half yonks.