The Last Bangohan.

Host family took me out for unagi (eel) tonight. I have never had such tasty eel in my life, it was glorious. Warm and a bit crunchy on the outside and delicious. And behind the restaurant was this really intense garden with HUGE koi fish and everything. It was kind of amazing. I take that back, it was ridiculously mind-bogglingly awesome. Awesometastic. Phenomerrific. Sensationalistically fantawesomerrific.

Yeah, that’s enough of that.

The sake was really good, too. Although it was warm and some of the steam (?) I mean it wasn’t steaming but I went to drink and breathed in the fumes a little through my nose and it like. assaulted the insides of my nostrils with fire and some pitchforks. There was definitely stabbing involved. It was… an experience, haha. Managed not to react, though, so I didn’t embarrass myself.

Okaa-san bought cake that we ate afterwards, too. And there was coffee. Host family, you know me far too well.

Hmm, random assortment of things here.

First we have loot from the Mitaka Ghibli Museum, and then some from the store in Nagoya. I got some little keychains, and the rings from Howl’s Moving Castle because that’s one of my favorites and they are just so pretty…. I want to put them on a chain so I can wear them like a necklace, because yay. And they don’t really fit my fingers, eh heh. also a keychain of the gem from Castle in the Sky, which I’m going to copy Caitlyn by turning it into a necklace as well, once I find something suitable.

Another gift from my host parents, a really cute koi handkerchief. I love the colors, it’s so bright. They also gave me the dishes and stuff that I’ve been using all year, those are all packed surrounded by lots and lots of clothes.

Lol, took a picture of my last ￥万 (“man en,” roughly $100. $125? A lot) before I spent it sending those headache-inducing boxes. Urgh.

One of the boxes was pretty much full after I put the minion dude that I got from my brother for Christmas in it. Love ya lil bro, and the present is all kinds of great, but packing that thing was less than enjoyable. It doesn’t squish atall.

And here we have The Boxes. That caused all the trouble. And were pretty gosh darned expensive to send home. And awkward to carry down to the post office. Bluh. At least I’m all packed up now, I just gotta get my bum to the airport tomorrow. At 5:30. /sob

Wow these posts are really boring. Imma just chalk that up to the Returning Home Blues. I have them. They are the most oceanic shade of ultramarine.

(Katie, what are you on? The ocean is definitely not ultramarine, you utter dollophead. Learn your colors. Geez.)

more from the day I went to Yokiso with Caitlyn and my host family.

caytinnagoya:

Closing Ceremony Shenanigans

(The second guy talking is Nanzan’s president ‘o’ did I ever tell you I finally figured out the Nanzan and frogs thing? The president’s name is Michael, which they write in Japanese as Mikaeru. Mi can also mean 3, and kaeru (while also meaning to return, which leads to a completely different frog pun) means frog. So. 3 frogs. =V)

there’s Andrea, me and Cathy, Katie and Alex. After we got pictures with Ide-sensei, Office-sensei (Mitch? is that what we decided his name was?), and Mutsukawa-sensei (not that you can see him, hiding the the back =T)

Woooo Grajitation!

Micchan is his name, duuuuh. He tells people to call him Mitch, but I don’t remember his actual name. Still kinda upset about that. 

Also the group that kept steadily getting larger, ahaha. So many cameras.

caytinnagoya:

Mitaka Ghibli Museum - 1 of 2

Not many pictures here, as photography wasn’t allowed inside =< Totally worth going though, the building itself was gorgeous.

Anybody who’ll see me in person and wants to see what the inside looks like, I bought a bookset that has photos of the museum I can show off ‘u’

(more pictures of me, nooooo)

AWW YEAHH GHIBLI MUSEUM! This is relevant to my interests. So glad we were able to go to this place, it was awesome. So many cool designs, and Miyazaki-san actually designed it himself. He paid attention to little things, like having the raised platform in front of the desk so little kids could take their own tickets. The ticket to see the short films, which are only shown at the museum, are actual film strips from one of his movies. He also wanted the museum to be enjoyable for long-time fans as well as those who didn’t really know about his work. And then there was also general information about animation and behind-the-scenes stuff.

Such a cool dude. Such a cool place.

Sooooo cooooool.

Plus, did you see the statue from Laputa(Castle in the Sky)?

Soooooo cooooooool.

caytinnagoya:

Tokyo DisneySea - 2 out of 4

As to be expected, Disney’s attention to detail is phenomenal. These little leaf piles were the cutest thing

(and as you can see, we broke down pretty quickly and bought rain ponchos)

/sigh

Another derpface to add to the collection………… Some day, I am going to make a normal face when people try to take a picture of me.

Some day.

^{why is it only when it’s someone else’s camera, when someone else has the power to make the decision whether or not to upload, that I make the derpface?? WHY?}

(I was too happy about the ice cream to make a normal face. My excitement transcended Traditional Happy Face. The happy face did not properly express my joy.)

caytinnagoya:

Tokyo DisneySea - 1 out of 4

The very next day, Katie, Cathy and I woke up for a 6:40 shinkansen to Tokyo, and we spent the first day at DisneySea. I got less pictures than I would have liked, as it was raining all day =< The rain meant that the longest wait time for a ride was only 15 minutes, however, which was fantastic

The last few pictures are of before the Indy Jones ride, and if Cathy ever uploads the ride picture we bought I will share it, as we bought it mainly because our faces were perfect

Aw, bro, you got some awesome pictures of the Indy ride. Reblabbing so I can have them, too. *sidles in, snags snapshots with a stupendous quantities of stealth, absconds sneakily, photos securely snatched*

We need that photo uploaded pronto man, your face was excellent. There is nothing in the world quite as wonderful as impromptu derp.