June 15, 2009

Summertime and the men are stinky...

Sorry, that just popped into my head at the gym yesterday, where the unspoken rule is, Don't pick the stairmaster next to anyone with dark sweaty hair. Ah, summer. Time to answer tough, life-changing questions, like, 'Should I diet or buy long shirts?'

But it's small town Sunday again, courtesy of Wendy, and once again I'm digging out old vacation pictures. I actually lived in a Japanese small town for 2 years but that was before digital cameras. These picures are from our 2002 Japan vacation, when I was a gauche young girl with freckles, do-it-yourself bangs and one eyebrow.

Me and Takumi-chan

Japanese Barbeque

Mt. Fuji (Fuji-san)

Japanese Graveyard in Kyoto
Attack of the Deer in Nara
Shrine with a Symbol that Once Meant PeaceShibuya (or maybe Shinjuku) - Back to Civilization!

13 comments:

  1. Great pictures!! I need to get overseas!!!

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  2. Great pictures. It was interesting to see a graveyard so different than the kind I am accustomed to. And all those people! Yikes.

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  3. long shirts are hard to find

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  4. Beautiful photos! I love the photo of the intersection.

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  5. You have a much broader small town experience than I. Thank you for sharing. :)

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  6. How exciting! We used to have Japanese exchange students when I was growing up, so I've eaten a lot of Japanese food. Still can't handle the seaweed flakes, and umiboshi is disgusting.

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  7. That little boy is adorable! And you do NOT have just one eye brow.

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  8. When I saw the title, I thought this post was going to be about how much stinkier Germans are -- don't you just love riding in a crowded bus or S-Bahn with a bunch of sweaty Germans at the end of a HOT summer day?...
    OK, maybe I'm just jealous -- I'm wearing a sweater because it's barely in the 50's today...

    Great pictures of Japan!

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  9. Wow! It looks fabulous. I would love to travel there! P.S. I finally got back to the tag :)

    Shawna's Study Abroad

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  10. Love the graveyard -the headstones look like miniature tower blocks.

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  11. Your photos are amazing! Thanks for sharing!

    PS: I don't think you had one eyebrow either.

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  12. Moshi moshi!
    I totally thought the headstones were skyscrapers. I wanna go to Japan.

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  13. the picture of that cemetery was surreal.

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