Pictures in retrospect

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Gundam go go!

On Odaiba, they have a life size Gundam (and by that I mean life size if a Gundam were real.) It was so cool! We went there after going to Muscle Park and it was this huge event. We got in line so we could go between its legs and touch its feet and I took pictures of it from all angles and it was so amazing! I loved it! It even lit up and spoke and turned its head and had the thrusters on the back and it was just SO COOL! And I wasn't the only one who thought so, all these other Gundam affectionados were gawking at it and taking pictures and screaming about how awesome it was. A real life Gundam!! It doesn't get any cooler than that!

Nikogaku!

Probably no one will get that reference except my father. But anyways! There's this awesome Japanese show, ROOKIES, that I adore and love and oh my god! There's advertisement for the movie everywhere! I saw an advertisement for a restaurant with Ruuto Saitoh (The teacher in the show) and I saw the poster for the movie and when Jenna and I went to the games last night, I saw a claw machine with the ROOKIES uniforms,but it was closed, otherwise I'd have spent quite a bit of money trying to get one of those! I even got a water bottle JUST because it had the advertising for ROOKIES on it! Heck yeah! I'm being such a fangirl spazz here. But I love that show so much! I'm almost tempted to go to the movie, but I'm not spending 1500 yen to watch something I won't understand. And we went to the 'red light district' and I saw a batting cage place just like in the show, so I made Jenna go with me, and when I went inside to hit the balls, I pretended I was Shinjo, since he's my favorite, but when I kept missing the balls, I started pretending I was Hiyama since he can't hit balls very well either. We're going to go to Harajuku today,to see the Harajuku girls and to go to the D-Boys store, and to meet up with Naoki and Mihoko for dinner(I'm so excited to meet them!) and I hope I can get some more ROOKIES merchandise!
Also, when we went to the 'red light' area last night, I saw so many hosts outside taking a break from their duties and they. are. CUTE. I smiled at them and I think one smiled back- or at least acknowledged us-which was nice. No wonder women pay them to hang out with them.

Kamakura Buddha

This is a copy of a photo my grandfather has, from when he went to the Kamakura Great Buddha in 1949.

It's still standing!

The day we bought the tickets!