水曜日, 4月 26, 2006

GOLDEN WEEK - Here we come!!!

Watch out Kansai Area, here's comes the Girls!!!

Friday night Shanna, Beth, and I are taking the over night train to Kyoto for a 8 day vacation. We'll do little day trips to Osaka, Nara, Himeji, and Kobe. We'll check out USJ (Universal Studios in Japan), see some great temples/shrines, eat some yummy takoyaki and okonomiyaki, and do LOTS of shopping!!!

Have fun to everyone else going places or staying home for Golden Week - C'ya in May!








WARNING!!!!

After much contemplating about posting these pictures on my Blog after knowing certain peoples PARENTS check this....I thought.....OH WELL - What's a wild party without some wild photos!?!

Thus, last Saturday SHAME had the SUPER 6 Birthday Party for some fine Niigata folks! It was one wild/crazy party....so FAIR WARNING ABOUT THE PICTURES TO COME!

BUT Happy Birthday to Natasha, Joyce, Troy, Tomohiro, Mary, and Patrick! Hope you had/have a great one!!!

Natasha living it up!!!
Natasha and Joyce (two of our Birthday Ladies for the night)

Tomohiro (one of our Birthday Boys for the night)

The Swanky VIP Room which had a lot of entertainment going on that night with the Albirex Basketball Team!




hehehe Yeah!

火曜日, 4月 25, 2006

Agano N' April

Agano is Beth's stomping ground! This was my first time to visit the wonderful city that Beth calls home - not too shabby!!! :)

The girls hanging out by the lake.




These were all taken at Hyoko Park. It has a famous lake that is known for Swans since in the late summer/early fall they flock there like crazy. Beth says the whole lake is covered with them!


Classy, ne?!?



月曜日, 4月 24, 2006

Agano's Eikaiwa

This past weekend Shanna and I got invited by Beth to join her Eikaiwa (Adult conversation class) she has once a month. Bascially we just talked about ourselves for an hour and 1/2, but afterwards the ladies were kind enough to take us out for a very traditional Japanese Lunch.

This was our waiting room at the Ikarashi House. It's an old Japanese home that was turned into a restaurant.

This was our menu. It had like 5 courses. Amazing!





This was probably my favorite dish! It's a liquid tofu heated up with a small burner. You then add a sauce to it and chow down....quite yummy!