A Fine Farewell

Well, I have had a crazy good time here in Japan. There was a lot of bad blood on this trip, but I hope that we can all get over it and just appreciate everything that we saw. I would like to thank our travel leaders and everyone else on the trip. Especially those of you who took photos for me! Hope you enjoyed my blog!

Just when you thought Godzilla went soft...

All of a sudden, it seems that Godzilla has gone soft. I mean look at him, covered in flowers, then listening to BRITNEY SPEARS! Common! This is just pathetic...

But then, out of no where, he attacks Stephanie!! Hooray! The big green guy is back! After taking care of her (i had to again censor the carnage), he turned against the small plastic toys on the table! He is pure evil!

Visiting Japanese Monuments... And A Bus.

So these are my feeble attempts (or sometimes the attempts of other) to get some good forced perspective shots of Godzilla. None of them really worked out that well, but I thought they were cool anyways.

<--This first shot is from the largest pagoda in Japan. I actually did not have enough money by this time to get into the gates to see it up close. But the people who went in said it was nice, so that is good enough for me!

-->Next we have a picfrom the golden temple in Kyoto. I think that was probably my favorite thing to see there. It was just this pristine, lustrous temple amongst the green scenery. Ofcourse, Godzilla had to ruin it by walking into frame (the bastard), but hey, you try to control a radioactive monster!

<--Finally, we have this random pic of Godzilla next to a bus. I don't remember why we even did it, but here it is... published for the world to see. What a waste of blogger.com's server...

THE BIRDS! An Alfred Hitchcock tribute.

This was a spontaneous thing when we were at a temple market in Nagoya. I saw all these pigeons in a clustered area. So, I put down Godzilla amongst them. At first nothing happened, but then this random Japanese guy started tossing bird feed on him! Next thing I knew, Godzilla had collapsed. His pride may have been hurt, but at least he came out alive... unless he got bird flu...

Japanese and not so Japanese Cuisine

I thought that I might dedicate this post to all of the interesting things that we got to eat in Japan. The sheer range of what I managed to actually eat still amazes me. Even Godzilla couldn't stomach everything we encountered, although he was a huge fan of sushi.

<--Here we have the second dinner in Tokyo. Some of it was absolutely amazing. The tempura was excellent, the sashimi was good, and I was not even sick of rice yet. Then there is the second little square from the left. No, that is not Godzilla's throw up... we were supposed to eat that. The best guess I came up with was some sort of brain.... and knowing those Japanese, probably from a fish... Now, not everything was entirely unfamiliar. I must admit having gone to McDonalds... several times. But Godzilla had an even better time there. He tore into the food, including a Big Mac (with an overwhelming number of pickles though...), some fries, and a coke. If you want to know more about McDonalds in Japan, check out Sivi's Blog.