お久しぶりです！

I haven't updated in a month!  Yikes!  I've been taking pictures, but I got backlogged trying to organize all the pictures from one event to put up.  I give up.  You'll probably get like 5-10 posts of Nikko, then 3 posts of Fuji or so... I dunno.  Anyways, here's some pictures!

This is "Yuba Udon" - a specialty dish from Nikko.

A statue in the parking lot of Nikko - the shrine to Emperor Tokugawa.

"Toshogu" - the name of the shrine.

The group that I went with from work!  Koyanagi, Hashimoto, Ookushi, and Isaac!  Thanks for a great time!

One of my first shots on the grounds that I really enjoyed.

That's all for now, I'll be putting up more this weekend!

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Miyuki is a friend of mine from school.  We were pretty surprised a couple months ago when we realized we would both be in Japan at the same time.  In the same city.  Her family lives in the city where I'm doing my internship.  It was great to be able to meet up with her on the other side of the world!

I also had some Baskin Robbins ice cream that was amazing.  Mint chocolate chip with cookie dough pieces in it.  I was blown away.

Bug

I was exhausted biking home on Thursday and passed a couple of flowers that I thought "Wow that's cool, but I'll take a picture of it later."  Then I saw this bug and I knew I had to take a picture.

No idea what it is, but it is pretty.

Clouds

A little tribute to my brother.  He's too busy taking care of his kids now to take pictures of clouds.

This was taken a few days ago, but I've been super busy and couldn't upload it until now.

Dance!

I went to an AWESOME dance in Shibuya tonight.  It was a church activity and TONS of fun.  I was pretty late, apparently they all made T-shirts beforehand because it was a black light party.

Now for pictures.

I also met up with some mission friends.  A great way to end the day!

Do Yuna Tokyo?

You know? Alright it doesn't quite work like that, I know.  But!  I was able to have an awesome night in Tokyo meeting with one of my childhood friends!  Yuna and I hadn't seen each other in about 10 years, but thanks to the internet, we were able to meet up in Tokyo!

We had a great time, I couldn't believe how fast the time went by!

Drill Dust

I was drilling a plastic rod at work today and these perfect swirly things were made.  I held on to them for the whole day in order to take pictures of them.  Then I threw them away after I had my pictures.