New Pets

Some new strange, unusual and friendly pets. First the strange and unusual Salamander, I think we have babies swimming around in a ceramic vase in the yars, either that or maybe they are tadpoles- we will see. Friendly- the little pigeon couple that started coming around the other day- we threw them some bread and leftover popcorn then they started showing up every afternoon at about the same time so we kept feeding them. Today they came and landed on the fence where they watched me thru the window, I got some old bread for them and they ate again, then they came back a second time later this afternoon. As long as they DO NOT bring their friends I will continue feeding them, once the friends start showing up the food will stop- I only want the 2 of them :)

Cherry Blossoms in Ueno

Was on the way to Kamakura today when I decided, what the heck- Let's just go all the way to Ueno and see tons of Cherry Blossoms. They were in full bloom- it was spectacular!!!!!!!! and on the way home we could see the Tokyo Tower all lit up............ That's the reason I like unplanned days like this, where you just cancel all activities for the week, get up when you want, leave the house when you want and come back before it is time to go to bed- this is the reason. Today was GREAT!!!!!!! Go to my other blog spadazzle.blogspot.com and click on my flick to see more photos- Enjoy!!!! oh- also a funny guy wearing really goofy glasses and selling food :)

Cherry Blossoms

We went to Ueno last week while in Tokyo- The Cherry Blossoms were 60% bloomed. There were tons of people just walking and taking pictures of the flowers, picnicing on cardboard box tables and drinking lots of beer and other liquor.

Kindness in the Tokyo Subway Poster

Please do it at home! I love these posters- this one is to remind people to give up their seats to people who need them :) Cute.

THQS

Here are some pictures from the New Years trip to Tokyo! Pictures include New Years Mochi Decoration at the hotel, The Tokyo Tower 2009, New Years Fortunes at the Shrine and A Japanese Building in Ueno

Yokohama at Christmas Time

Went to Yokohama over the weekend. Photos include- View of Mt. Fuji from the ferris wheel, a Christmas Clown and a sparkly, mirror like singing Christmas tree ( we made it just intime to see it start sparkling and singing!)

Japanese Movie Extras

Well, we were in a Japanese Movie yesterday in Kawasaki! Very interesting to see how much work goes into making a very small part of a movie! I tried to take pictures but the only one they would let me get was the one of the Bento lunches. It was a good experience, made some extra money, got fed 3 meals, snacks, drinks and met a lot of foreigners from all over the world- among the ones we met, Bosnia, France, Canada, Scotland, Australia- the only requirement was that you were not Asian (I am guessing they already filled those parts. WOW!!! It was a crazy day- made it home around 11 ish! Here's the picture showing the area in Kawaski and here are the Bento lunches- I had some sort of stew thing :)