A more visually appealing post.

So, while I'm at it, "rabbit, rabbit" and all that. Happy December. (And Happy Birthday, Mom! Figured I should say that early to make up for your gift getting there late.)

I've got some more pictures to post from a field trip for the Seminar class. I went with the early group on Saturday; we visited the cool places, like the shrine with hundreds of stone buddhas and a spot for viewing the surrounding mountains and valleys. Praying manti were everywhere; I'll have to ask Ruby for copies of her pictures, since I was too busy handling them to take any photos of my own. I also found a few gravesites, though I'm not sure it would be kosher to post pictures of them.

We had a small BBQ and spent the night at Nishigoshi. We stayed up really late playing games, but I think everyone eventually got some sleep.

Sunday afternoon we went to a kabuki theatre just to have a tour and walked down to a small museum for those paper hats they make for the festivals. They're so intricate and beautiful; unfortunately my phone was out of juice by then, so no pictures at the moment.




My favorite part of Sunday was the park with the stone pinwheels. The windmills themselves were very cool, but there was also a slide! The first part you had to push yourself along, but towards the end it was so wheeeee!


I've got more pics, but it's a lot of the same thing. I'll have to make some kind of photo page where I can dump them all.