An Ultimate Update

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I apologize for the late update. I thought hmm fill out my expense report or update the blog. You can guess which one won at at this point. I have been working hard. I still have no pictures of the plant, but I want to make sure I can take pictures of the plant before I do anything. But I do have a great update for you. It has been about a week. So a lot has happened. Besides work I have found some time to go out and see the sights. Randy, Rich (our buddy from Cali) and myself went to the Hard Rock cafe. There were a lot of locals there celebrating birthdays. So I got pictures of them dancing as well as some pictures of thier shrine to Elvis (Cami that was just for you). Randy and I went to an all you can eat and drink place. It was a paradise for men. They had mini grills on the table and you grabbed all the meat you wanted and grilled it yourself. On top of that you had high tech beer taps, wine, sake, soda, and juice. It was all you can drink!! Though.... all the buttons were in Japanese.

Luckily the guys at the table next to us took pity on me and showed me how to get a drink. I had poured a couple of bad drinks and they could not stand by and watch me fail over and over again. They did not speak english, but they did not need to, we spoke the universal language of pointing and laughing. Sadly I did not get pictures of this joyous event.

Fastfoward to the weekend. I had to work on saturday, but Randy was free to explore. He took the camera and got a few shots. Some of them are very artistic and show a softer side of Darth. Others... well I posted some of the others, use your imagination to think of which ones he took or had an influence on.

Sunday there was a festival that we had to attend. There was a lot of music and food. The day started off with a band of little kids that rocked harder than most of the bands in the US. These kids just rocked HARD! After them there were some Belly dancers. I took all the pictures that I was ordered to. I was thanked by being called out by the MC, who asked "Did you get a lot of pictures? Good ones?" In front of the entire festival. Oh well.

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Photos

Dance Dance Revolution
Our waitress lead the dances every time. We had the YMCA and a couple of others. Birthday parties are definatly fun at the Hard Rock!

Hail to the King
Cami THIS IS FOR YOU!!!!

Randy Part 1
Randy took this great picture of this walk way. This walk way is on top of a mall next to the bus station. The top has water running over it and gives a great view of the city.

The Tv Tower
Every big city in Japan has a TV tower and here is Nagoya's

Randy Cont
He got this nice picture of a artist at work. He has a soft spot for art.

Randy Goes on
This is just a feel for how packed it gets in some stations. Imagine this times 10 and you have Nagoya at rush hour. Times that by 10 and you have a glimpse of what Tokyo can be like on a slow day! :)

Darth Goes to the Museum
Darth went to check out the Monet paintings. I am jealous because I have yet to be able to do that!

For the Kids
Here is the Pokemon center of Nagoya.

Behold Randy the artist
This is a good picture.

Randy Jams out
Here is a nice Jam for your saturday day.

Randy Ummmm
So he took this picture, it has artistic merit, I think......

Flowers For Jan
Jan, here are some pretty flowers!

They Will Rock You!
These kids rocked hard!!! They seriously were good. I was blown away.

Japanese Belly Dancers
I took one of each dancer. Then I was called out for doing so. I was under strict direction by managment.... not naming any names. However, I can be biased on my favorite.

Belly Dancers !!
I bet you can guess who was the better dancer.

2nd one
Here is the second belly dancer.

3rd belly dancer
Here is the third and final belly dancer.

All Three of them
Here they are for the grand finale

Sound Wave
They had a cool name but did not rock as hard as the kids or the dancers. Still they gave it a good try!

My co-workers
Here are two of my co-workers. On the left is Pantiba from Hong Kong. To the right is one of our wonderful interrpertors Michiko!

More Flowers for Jan
Jan these were very pretty!

Another Side of the castle
The festival took place right outside the castle. A great view no matter where you went.

The Co-workers Part Deux
Here they are again. But what a great background.

Comments

[Jan]

Noe/Randy Thanks for the update and for the pictures of the flower gardens. I noticed that your interrpertors are in more than one picture. Good going Noe. Randy the Monet exhibit looked interesting. A soft side of Darth. How could you ever let that be known!!! I'm glad you are finding some time for Japanese culture. Get that 787 stuff in line, my stock depends on YOU!!!!