February Vacation 2010

Johnny came for a visit last week and we took a week in Nara and Kyoto Japan! We did alot and saw alot, too much to really describe very well, so I think this will be a mostly photos post. One thing that might need explaining though, is that Nara Park is home to a few thousand deer, that are very comfortable being around humans, and that tourists often feed crackers sold by street vendors.

Hope you enjoyed them, sorry I don't have the energy to write any hilarious captions... maybe next time!

Earthquake!

So I was up late chatting with my mom on Skype and there was an earthquake! Just a little one, and it lasted less than a minute, and Tim slept right through it, but I found this cool map online, and the epicenter was just off the coast but SUPER close to Toyohashi!

That's all for now!

Christmas and New Years

Happy New Year everybody!

I thought you guys might want to see some pictures of the Christmas lights around town!

 

 

 

 

Tim had a little break from school right after Christmas, which we spent exactly the way you might imagine we'd spend it.

It was wonderful. 

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years!

Fall Summary : November

So for the most important November news...

We saw New Moon! For those of you who don't know this, I am a huge Twilight fan. The books are the literary equivilent of movie theater popcorn. Guity please reading with no nutritional value, I love them so much it's embarassing, and even though my inner feminist hates the message, hates the characters and hates the premise, I still love them. I thought the first movie was pretty bad, but loved New Moon, so much so that I have started to re-read the series eince the movie re-ignited my love for the books.

Yes that is my reflection in both those pictures, I took them with my cell phone.

This picture is of the escalators, they go up 5 floor, and our theater was on the 5th floor. It was awesome.

We also went to Nagoya, for some shopping and dinner, which was fun. Nagoya is a huge city and can be really crowded, so we try to schedule our trips for to avoid the crowded subways during prime hours. It can be scary crowded at times, at least for a small town kid like myself! So we try to avoid the biggest stations and busiest parts of town. Here are a few pictures from the same park we visited on our anniversary in June!

So that's it, we're officially updated on the past few months! Thanks for reading!

-Ruth and Tim