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Nice pictures, I think the Elder in your last photo, wearing glasses and grinning was in my singles ward about a year ago! I could probably confirm it if you knew his last name, his name escapes me right now.
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So beautiful! I got to spend one day in Japan at the end of my honeymoon. Your pictures make me want to go back for a much longer amount of time. Posts: 1635 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Not ringing bells, what was his first name if you HAPPEN to know? I know that you know it is not likely seeing as missionaries don't refer to each other by their first names.
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It's frightening how many missionaries' first names I know.
But rather than put his whole name out on the internet - he's from upstate New York. Is that where your singles' ward was?
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I went to Thailand on my honeymoon. We got to spend about a week on an island resort off the coast of Phuket, and then we spent two days in Bangkok. On the way back home we had an 11 hour layover in the Osaka airport, so we took a bus and toured Nara for the day. Great fun, but definitely too short!
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quote:Originally posted by hansenj: I went to Thailand on my honeymoon. We got to spend about a week on an island resort off the coast of Phuket, and then we spent two days in Bangkok. On the way back home we had an 11 hour layover in the Osaka airport, so we took a bus and toured Nara for the day. Great fun, but definitely too short!
Suddenly I don't feel bad for you that you spent only one day in Japan! Phuket is the epitome of beautiful vacation localities!
Annie: Different kid it would seem, my parents and two of my sisters live in Tokyo, specifically Shibuya. But if you didn't go to the gaijin ward you probably didn't know them.
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Shibuya is (was) in the other mission, so I only got to go when we had to change trains. But when we did we made 5-minute pitstops to press our noses against the glass looking at the Shibuya intersection. I swear I saw Godzilla once.
For being a "Tokyo" mission, I was always in very non-Tokyo areas.
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They have a tulip festival every year around Yokohama Stadium - it must have been early April, I think. There were SO many varieties of tulips there. It was amazing.
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Umm...I just talked to Paul, and apparently there's a friend of his family who was a Japanese Pop star in the 80s who has a mansion in Yokohama...Looks like we have a place to stay when we go down there! Posts: 1635 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Yep, that's the one...her older sister sort of grew up with Paul's mom in Hawaii. Yuki's older sister would hang out with Paul's mom when their family came to Hawaii to go to the temple (because there wasn't one in Japan at the time). His mom didn't know Yuki, though, cause she was very young.
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Fun. Her husband is awesome and hilarious. And her kids are the cutest things ever. I'm a little jealous you can stay with them.
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Neat pictures. Some of them reminded me of my own trip to Japan (particularly the Takahata Fudo one). Thanks for sharing them. Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
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What's so rad about the Spacerocket soda? *curious*
Just last week, at the grocery store, we saw a new kind of soda. It came in plastic containers with metal tops that looked like the traditional aluminum cans, and one flavor was tamarind, which was actually quite good. I never thought of tamarind as a soda flavor.
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Mexican brand Jarritos makes tamarind. It's one of my favorites.
And bubble rocket doesn't necessarily taste very good (although "space flavor" is far superior to Bubble Man II, another of its incarnations), but the packaging (black bottle with bright primary colors) makes it by far radder than any other pop on the Japanese market, ramune included.
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These are crude forgeries to build me an alibi. "Oh? last year? I was in... Japan. Yeah, that's right. Japan."
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