jade wasn't feeling all too well the other morning, and so i went down to the hotel restaurant and had a free breakfast. i sat with renee, one of her backup singers. she was from san diego too, so i felt pretty comfortable with her. everyone else in the band was from germany. they were all real nice though, and the pianist, philip invited me to go see the nagoya castle with some of the guys. totally sweet. we walked a distance of "only two kilometers" to a shinto shrine, where the guitarist holger (?) showed me the cleansing ritual before entering. we all walked around a bit taking pictures of things, and then went to the park where the castle was. apparently, it was a japanese holiday, so there were a lot of people at
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