Watch, Read, Listen
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for your amusement….
Just a few photos taken on recent (October) outings for your amusement! "U R so cold and hard"????? Ummmmmmm……okay. (bought this at a store called Morning Glory that sells lots of stationary type stuff) Not sure why this hit my funny bone. I think I find it funny because it's a laundry detergent advertisement on…
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UN Day at IST
October 24, 2012- Today is UN Day at IST! Apparently, the United Nations (UN) was founded on October 24, 1945 so today we're celebrating its birthday! Kind of makes sense considering this IS an INTERNATIONAL school with people from All Over The World. The students were asked to come dressed up in either their home-land…
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Huh….they don’t seem to trust themselves????
October 23, 2012 - Look at what our neighbor (the one that is causing all the "rubble delivery" right in front of our house) is having installed: Video surveillance cameras pointed at his house. Soooooo…. HUH! I'm not sure what to think about this. I haven't seen any other video surveillance cameras in…
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Library Club Assembly…
October 19, 2012- Today is the Library Club Assembly….and Dress Up as Your Favorite (book) Character Day! With Daddy's help we turned Ava into Pippi Longstocking (we *just* finished reading Pippi …for the third time!!!! Thanks, Sally!). Annika dressed up in black as Kamikaze (apparently a thief in the How To Train Your Dragon series).…
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A muggy whale
October 26, 2012 – I couldn't resist buying this mug at the flower market (yes, I bought tea cups at the flower market. Isn't that where you'd buy tea cups????): PS. I'm not done with the Japan trip posts but I need to take a break from them! I need to make sure and post…
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Got an empty space??? Create a dump site!
October 12 & October 23, 2012 – The row houses (I think that's what they're called???) on the other side of the street from our house are getting renovated/updated/whatever done. Guess what that means for the space *RIGHT* in front of our house???? trash including broken glass. October 23, 2012: Yep…those are lots of glass…
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Amusing drainage issues….
October 12, 2012 - Some of you may remember that Tianjin experienced one of the worst floods in the past forty years in early August. I think I may have mentioned that some of the houses with basements in our area were flooded as a result. Fast forward two months or so at a…
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Shirakawa-go
October 2, 2012- Here are some photos taken from our stroll around the town. We didn't have a purpose or a goal…we just wanted to see what we could see and return back to the inn when we were done.
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Shimizu Inn
October 2, 2012 – Well, the lady running this inn…which I'm thinking is more like a minshuku (a Japanese style bed and breakfast) than a ryokan but I could be totally wrong…has just checked us in. We're the only guests staying here tonight (but we'll be here for two nights). Set down your luggage and…
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Arriving in Shirakawa-go
October 2, 2012 - We got off the bus, grabbed all our luggage, we're armed with a map of the village and now it's time to set off in search of our next inn!! Let's go!!! To get to our inn we'll have to cross this suspension bridge. Looking back towards the bus station….there's…