Let's eat!

This is a pic from a while ago when we went to a Sumo tournament.... makes you wanna start eating right? We could all probably use a few more pounds on us.... how else can we be expected to be sumo wrestlers? Just one question for you.... don't you wan to get a diaper looking thong? 

Mt. Fuji

  Well I finally got some pictures of Mt. Fuji at the beach near our house.  Joy and I are hoping to climb to the top in a couple months.  You can only climb it during a three month period in the summer because it's too cold and windy the other nine months of the year.

  

You may have noticed in the photo of Joy's last post that I have stitches above one of my eyes.  A week ago I was wrestling around doing jiu-jitsu with a friend from my ship.  I got him in a pretty good position on the ground so he tried to roll out of it by trying to throw his foot over my head but instead of going over my head it landed on my forehead.  I didn't think anything happened but he stopped and I told him to keep going.  He just sat there and said I should go look at it because it was bleeding.  I said I don't care, let's keep going, but he insisted that we stop because I might need stitches.  So it was worse than I thought and I went to the Navy hospital where a few very inexperienced young seamen got to "practice" stitching my face, luckily I only needed three.  When I got home I questioned whether or not it would've been better if I didn't go to the hospital and just let my skin heal on it's own.  Joy says the same thing.

Tokyo

So it just took me forever to get signed in here. I created a new business email with gmail, and then when I went to sign into our blog my new gmail account was there, and I thought, "Hmmm that's weird. I thought I would still be signing in here with my other email". Well, I was supposed to continue signing in with my other email, but it took me a while to find that out cause everything was in Kanji and I didn't know what I was clicking on! Eventually I found a spot to turn it all to English... so here I am. SHeesh!

So last weekend we went to Tokyo to visit our friend Melody and do some site-seeing. We went to a couple of different places and this at this place in particular there were WAY too many people. It was fun to see some new places, but I am not one much for the city and crowds.... hence the reason why we don't go to Tokyo often :) Spring is pretty much here and soon all the cherry blossom trees will be blooming. We saw a few and they are quite pretty. Can't wait for all of them to bloom.... should happen in the next week or two! 

Busy, Busy Busy!

So I have obviously been busy lately... and I am still busy now so this is going to be short. The weekend before last we went rock climbing. Lots of fun! This last weekend we went to Tokyo to visit our friend Melody and had some more fun seeing the sites. I am in class this week and really enjoying it. I have had a LOT of people contacting me about family portraits and such. So here is a sample of todays work... really fun, and VERY easy doggies to photograph!

I had a photo session this morning and it went really great. This is just one of many great images :)

An Adventure

So yesterday I had quite an adventure. I dropped my car off in the morning at the shop to get some work done, and they said it would be done by the afternoon, so I thought "Great! I won't have to ride home at night in the dark." SO in thinking this, I wisely left the bike lights in the car. Well, they call me later that afternoon to say they made a mistake and they won't have the car ready  until tomorrow. Oh well, no big deal, I thought I would be riding my bike home initially anyway. I didn't remember until it was too late that I needed to get the bike lights out of the car. I didn't get off work until 8pm, it is dark, cold, and it has started to rain. Sounds like fun. It takes me about 40 minutes to ride home. Everyone I work with lives on base and none of them really have a car anyway. So I am stuck. I could take the train, but I would probably spend twice as much time walking in the rain if I did. So biking it is. I tied a plastic bag to my backpack and hoped for the best. I made it home in one piece, but it was freezing!

At first my hands went numb. I was trying to wiggle them often so they would work when I needed to use the break. Then, by some miracle they were warm and all was fine. But then my legs were freezing. I am getting soaked cause there isn't much of a bike lane on  most of the roads here so I am in a ditch with water going everywhere. Then I realized that it is not just raining but it is freaking snowing! It wasn't sticking, but it was snowing and I was cold. It was interesting though. I made it home and I jumped right in the shower to warm up. I think the snot dripping down my face the whole time kept me pretty warm so hopefully I won't get sick. You can see in the video that my toes are bright red, and you can't really see how wet I am cause I was soaked all the way through. There was more snow attached to my clothing, but by the time I got the camera most of it had melted.

Snowboarding in Japan!

So we went snowboarding on Saturday. It was SUPER fun! We went to Kandatsu, which is about 4-5 hours away. I worked at the Outdoor Rec Center up until last Friday and ORC does a lot of trips for the people on base. It is a bit cheaper to go with them cause if we went on our own we would have to pay a million yen in tolls. So we went and had a great time. It began with a small disaster. We got up the first lift and Brian goes to strap in and his binding broke... he went down the mountain to get new ones, but they didn't have the right kind. He was able to fix it himself somehow and went to strap in again and the other broke. Ugh. All the while I am with some friends who have never been before, trying to teach them how to snowboard. Finally around 10:30 or so we made it down one slope and found Brian and he had just fixed his board. SO off we went. The board worked good the rest of the day and we had a great time!

He's gooood.