Early, early today (about 4am), some of my team members went to visit one of the local (read "only 30 minutes away") fish markets. They said it was totally gross and really smelly but they got the freshest sushi that you'll ever get! I was too tired, so I didn't go, but they said it was a blast.
Later today at 2:30pm a bunch of us went to Asakusa to do a bit of shopping and sightseeing. Since I went there the week before, I was able to guide them around a bit and made sure that we got some manju (a yummy hot, sweet red-bean paste filled pastry) before we left. I was able to do a bit of shopping, as well, and got some presents for my family. (wink, wink!) For dinner we went to this totally out-of-the-way tiny restaurant. The old lady waitress/owner didn't speak any English and we didn't have any Japanese speakers with us so we had a bit of trouble at first but in the end we all managed to order something.
Afterwards, some of us went on to hit up the town a bit more with one of Greg's Japanese friends that he met last year. I forgot where we were, but we visited this HUGE building in Tokyo that I think Taiwan uses for something or another and went to the 45th floor where they had a neat observatory and gift shop where I bought this really neat little ink stamp thing that has my name in kanji, a Japanese form of writing. (gasp! wheeze, wheeze, wheeze! Was that all grammatically correct? Long sentences are fun!)
After that we decided to try and visit, BA-DA-DAAH!, the only Burger King in all of Japan (which happed to have just opened yesterday)! We finally get there (it took quite a bit of walking) only to find that there's this HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE line there and this employee guy who's handing out fliers says that there's about a 2 hour wait so we decided to skip BK and go to good ol' McDonald's. I was so happy to sit down for a bit.
Sheeeewwt! I still haven't put up many pictures. Ok, here's the deal, then. I've put a number of photo's onto my photobucket account so, if you want to, you could go over there and look at them directly. Just head on over to my photobucket page and see what's going on!
Well, I guess that's it for now!
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Hey! I hope everything is going well in Japan. I just got home from Canada. I'll be praying for you guys!
~Bryan
Huzzah for fresh Japanese food and kanji! At the McDonald's, what were the menu items like? I've heard that they're different over there.
Sorry I haven't commented lately, my life got rather busy due to a huge project... It's finished now, though!
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