Nasty Conjugation

Tonight we went to a sushi restaurant and ate some fish sperm.

Wait.

Tonight we went to a sushi restaurant and ate some fish sperm.

I just had to say that twice.

Hello, gentle creatures of the forest. I’ve been silent on my site for a while. Inevitably my excuse is that we’ve been really busy, but it’s true! We have! We return to the United States in three weeks, so we’re venturing to squeeze as much adventure as possible into our final moments here. We have lots of pictures to show you, but they will have to go up incrementally or you will never be able to slog through all of them. Expect pictures of our private kids class soon.

The following bit of writing is part of something larger that I have high hopes for. The main character is not myself, even though it is written from the first-person perspective. The experiences, however, are largely gleaned from Holly’s and my own. Please enjoy?

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Instead of Day 6 I should probably just say Final Day, or perhaps Day Omega. This is it, folks. The trip is over, and I’m done writing about it. The last pictures are uploaded, so feel free to look at those as well. Expect to be subjected to plenty of pictures and stories when we get back to the United States, but for the time being you don’t have to hear anything else about it. Please enjoy, and thanks for reading about our trip!

Pictures of Day Six in Miyajima and Hiroshima.

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Well, our days of derring-do are coming to a close, but there’s still two full days of excitement and adventure before we board a bus for home. On Day Five we visited Himeji, home of the White Heron castle, and finally ended up in Hiroshima, the ultimate destination of our journey. Read on, true believers, and don’t forget to look at pictures of a castle on our Flickr page.

Castle, castle, castle.

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My apologies for the lateness of this post, friends and relatives. I recently got distracted by other projects, work, and being sick, and I neglected to continue with the chronicle of our adventures across Japan. Well, let’s have an end to that! Without further ado, here is Day Four of our trip, wherein we discover the hidden joys of Nara.

SPOILER ALERT: The hidden joys of Nara are deer.

I posted the pictures for Nara last week, but if by chance you missed them, take a look!

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