More pics

Strange things on Japanese Trains and funny warning signs

A couple of Americans

Trains are very clean ( i think this is a repeat, oh well deal with it)
Don't poke the Shidoshi, or anyone over there
Don't get on the train..maybe that's why they are so clean
Furry animals will point out your strange magical hand powers

One fo the palces we trained at, a very nice place, the outside of it is the picture below this doofus standing here

Trains here are very clean, and everyone just falls asleep
KFC in Japan
Sushi place, they take out the fish and show you how it's made

Some more shirne pics

Purifiying fountain

Cleansing, mostly becuase people were passing out left and right while we walked by

Been here almost a week...wow

Big Coy fish

If only I could bring some of this bamboo home. It's everywhere.
Beleive it or not we have this every once in awhile here. Not that it isn't good, but I'm not always eating raw fish
MMMMMMM Octopus...yep I ate that. Didn't taste like chicken
Starbucks in Japan

And a few more

The man himself in the center, Soke(Grandmaster) Hatsumi, with Shidoshi Amblo to the left, and next to the left HSE Darren Horvath who allowed us to stay with him

The other side of the Honbu, it gets crowded fast in there
Mikyo Shrine
Guardian Oni (Demons)

Some more pics

For the most part Greg and I cooking. There have been a lot trips to the grocery store.

We come here for tools, be it contruction or someones decontrcution

The Honbu, were we train, this is just the far wall.

Day 4

It's midnight here, we had a little problem getting online and that is now resolved, but as I have time I"ll be posting pictures. We're having a great time over here so far Here's a couple

The trio (Me, Our instructor Shidoshi Jessy Amblo, Greg)

Mad amounts of money...Like a hundred bucks US

One of those features on that control panel is to heat the toilet seat, bet you wished you had that everytime you freeze your ass off on the pot

More ot come later as I ahve the time, I have about 50-75 pictures, I"m just really busy here doing stuff hehe.

First Post

Alright, hello everyone. Here it is, the site that I've talked about making for a few weeks now and I finally sat down and thought really hard, and after painstakingly creating a name and format, I've finally finished the site in the 3 minute period it normally takes to create one of these. Yeah I'm a friggen slacker. I hope to use this a a kind of journal for myself and Greg at the moment to just give updates about how the Japan trip is going and the numerous tortures we will be put through. Perhaps even a picture or two. This trip will go from the 9th-22nd of January. Hope you enjoy