We went to Arctic Circle for lunch which was next to the miniature golf course we had a burger and shared some curly fries we got soft serve ice cream for dessert mmmm, last year we went there just for ice cream and i asked for a banana split and they couldn't understand what i was asking for so i had to say it in an American accent but this time they knew what i wanted so it was ok!! lol Miniature Golf was really fun even though i lost I did get two hole in ones which i thought was [View Full Entry]

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Today me and Lynn went to visit April at the bar she works in it's called Sean Bolan's it's an Irish Bar which serves Irish beers and plays Irish music 24/7 it was really funny as there was a welsh lady working in there made me laugh because she's welsh working in an irish pub in America lol! I couldn't figure out her accent at all! April let me try a Shirley Temple which is grenadine which tastes like cherry and sprite which was nice! Oh yeah on the way there we saw two baby deer drinking from the stream so [View Full Entry]

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FINALLY our new website is ready for public eyes. www.sailpacifica.com Some of you may know that Dave and I have been planning to do some charters on our catamaran. Our website not only has all the info about the boat, our schedule, how/what/when to come sailing with us, but it is also the home of our new combined blog. Many of you like to have the email notifications when I update the blog. Unfortunately I'm not able to register you on the new one, you will need to do that yourselves. Just go to www.sailpacifica.com and click on the Subscribe link [View Full Entry]

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Pinch Punch first day of the month!!! Today we went to a Tea room no joke we did it English Style, April and Lynn's mum treated us and their grandmother and their fake aunt (who is a really close family friend who they call their aunt lol) to lunch at the Tea by Two Tearoom it was so cute they were asking me if we had tearooms like this one back home and i was like maybe about 50 years ago lol! They had specialised tea's the first one we had was Razzleberry which was green tea with raspberry flavouring and [View Full Entry]

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I am absolutely exhausted right this moment but with good reason at least; hopefully this entry will make some coherent sense and I apologize if it doesn't. But today has been wonderful in every sense of the word. I had my second Kansai Gaidai reunion with my friends Quill and Aurora. Quill flew in this week to visit her for a few days, and they asked me sometime back if I'd like to go sightseeing around Washington D.C. with them. Of course the natural answer was "yes"! I love them both so much, and it really felt good to feel like [View Full Entry]

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Great start to the morning was dropping my suitcase on my foot and making it bleed it was a heavy suitcase lol!! I'm a girl over packing is what we do best lol!! Anyway so the twins April and Lynn came from Fallston Maryland where i will be staying for the next week to pick me up at lunchtime, we then went to the camp where we met three years ago to say hi to the people who work there full time, then we left for the four hour journey home joyous!! lol We stopped off to have a late lunch [View Full Entry]

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I’ve been doing some reflecting. This time on the day I returned from Japan. Today marks exactly one month since I left my home there in Osaka. The memories that I have in photos, in dreams, in conversations with people I met there are still very close to my heart, and I think about them a lot. Perhaps today’s thoughts were stirred by talking with Nozomi, and posting back and forth the way we used to say “kawaii!” “kawaikunai!” at one another before lapsing into peels of laughter. Perhaps it they were brought up by talking to Felix about how people [View Full Entry]

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The subject to this entry has nothing to do with the entry itself, I just wanted something a little dramatic as an introduction: Currently listening: Hong Kong by The Gorillaz (for the incredible guzheng) Just listened: Leaves in the River by Sea Wolf Currently reading: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk Just read: The Road by Cormac McCarthy I am in Columbia, Maryland, outside of Baltimore, lying prone in the front yard of Sam's uncle's house. The time is getting nearer where the trip takes some unique turns: Tim is going to Scotland for a week and a half and I am going [View Full Entry]

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I got a job? I got a job! Well, sort of. I signed on with a temporary hiring agency today, that promises they'll be able to find me a job very shortly. The sorts of work they hire out for are fairly basic, mostly clerical, data entry, receptionist sorts of positions. They did promise me a minimum wage as well as possible bonuses from themselves for stellar performance.. They also said that depending on the number of hours I work then I'll be elligible for extra things, like free health insurance and other benefits until I leave the country. And a [View Full Entry]

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“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” - Mark Jenkins Currently Listening: M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts Recently Listened To: [View Full Entry]

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