Over Golden Week, a series of adjacent holidays in early May, Miranda and I went hiking! It was really beautiful and relaxing. We were on our way up the trail when we came across a little rest area. There was a restroom, and what looked like a Tennessee country store, with Dolly Parton playing in the background! It was a really fun hike, and we got to traverse a massive suspension bridge.
The carp here are in celebration of "Children's Day" or "Boy's Day." Just like the carp swims upstream with strength and courage, so too will all the children have strength and courage next year! Or that's the symbolism anyhow.
So high!
This child looks like he's pondering the terrifying height of this bridge. Me too buddy, me too.
Some friends of my family, the Godfreys, were travelling across Asia this spring, and we got the chance to meet up with them in Osaka and have dinner! It was great to hear about their adventures, and fellowship together. Thanks Godfreys!
We went to Ise, a city on the western coast of Japan. It was a field trip planned by our dormitory RA's, and it was okay. It felt very tourist-y and restrictive. We were put randomly in groups and we had to stay with them the whole time. My group was nice, thankfully, and we had fun shopping and walking around a shrine.
We got to harvest pearls from oysters! So fun, and a fun souvenier!
You should bow when you enter the shrine and when you exit.
The views inside the shrine were amazing.
I got to drink orange juice out of an orange! They cut and mixed the orange juice up right in front of me. Then they added like a cup of orange juice from another bottle, and the orange actually didn't have that much orange juice in them, and it was kind of expensive. Fun, but disappointing.
Japan is full of vending machines. Here are a few of the more bizarre ones: 31-ice (aka Ben and Jerry's), suchi, and even raw wagyu beef!
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