Please look, peruse, and ask me to talk about things and people and places.
Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Elder Couzelis?
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
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. Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Just one day? Not enough! Where were you for the rest of the trip?
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
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?
Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :
Annie -- thanks for the photos. Way fun! And welcome home. Kristine Card
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by Annie: 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?
Nope that clinches it I suppose, though are you sure he lived in New York after his mission?
Which mission in Japan were you in, that might help.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
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!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Thanks, Kristine! It was fun. In that transcendant, eternal kind of fun way.
BlackBlade: I'm pretty sure he lived in New York the whole time - he was working there as a programmer.
We were in the Tokyo South Mission (God rest its soul).
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote: so we took a bus and toured Nara for the day.
Urayamashii!
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
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.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Oooh, that was fun, I don't even know you and I looked at all of them!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:Originally posted by Uprooted: Oooh, that was fun, I don't even know you and I looked at all of them!
That's OK. I don't even know you and I posted all of them.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
I really want to go see the tulips in Yokohama now!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
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.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
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! Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Saito Yuki?
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
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.
Posted by pfresh85 (Member # 8085) on :
Neat pictures. Some of them reminded me of my own trip to Japan (particularly the Takahata Fudo one). Thanks for sharing them. Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
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.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
A little shameless bump for the weekday crowd
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
sweet! cool pics Posted by Tara (Member # 10030) on :
Oh. I thought this was going to be pictures from a shuttle mission.
Still cool. The tulips are amazing.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
It WAS a shuttle mission.
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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I could probably confirm it if you knew his last name, his name escapes me right now.
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