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nice photos
I'm glad you are having wonderful time in Japan !

Snow men are cute.
Hello Jennifer I am glad that you are having fun there. By the way, the picture of "stop aids" is from a Japanese comic book which title is "Black Jack". If you read all of it, you can get a lot of medical knowledge...

Happy New Year, Jenn and Jim
hey jim...nice toque

Great stories and pictures as always, glad to hear you had a wonderful New Years Eve Love Mom xo

Way To Go!
Jenn! Congratulations on your marathon, way to go!! I know this is so one month ago, but I am just catching up on your blogs now! Miss you tons xo Laura

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A friend of mine is blogging all her escades on archelogical digs in Egypt on here,so out of curiosity,I did a search of Japan . You are only one of the peeps in Mie.I have spent so much time in Tokyo ,and Osaka,that a blog from either of those might not be as interesting to me. I have not been back since early 2007.I am very homesick...but I don't have the money to go back any time soon. I spent about a week in Mie,just going up and down the coast line. Suzuka,Yokkaichi,Tsu,Ise ,Matsusaka,Toba... Not sure what your experience there has been,but it was odd for me,because I am so used to a big city. I live in Shinjuku when I am there,and I always do at least a week in Nishi Umeda in Osaka. So Mie was....different . I highly recommend a trip to Toba.Its a haul,and you have to get on the train back by 7-8,or you're out there all damn night,but cool stuff. The lovers rocks,2 aquariums,Mikimotos museum and the ama pearl divers.Some of those women are in their 80s,and they still dive in 30 degree F weather.Then has a nice fried ebi dinner. Mmmmm.... Yahhh,homesick. Mie ,however,was one of the most boring places after dark. The cafe is Tsu closed at 6 pm..... No lights,no internet cafe for 15 min by cab.It was exasperating. I would walk along the main shopping drag by day,and 2/3rd of the stores were closed. Parking lots everywhere,with no cars in them. And at night,no street lights.The pitchest black night I've ever seen,but I'm glad I did it.I try to see a place I've never seen before each trip.id like to do some Northern coastal areas at some point. I prefer the south there.I hear Sapporo is nice,and I've been to Nagano,but there are some interesting places on the nothern coast of Honshu. And the kitkat bars there are like the pocky.Seasonal flavors.They come out once and you see them for 4 months,gone. Some pocky is regional. Kobe wine,Nagano grape... Last year I think they had pumpkin kitkats.I know they had pumpkin pocky at one point. And have you tried yatsuhashi yet ? I loooveee the traditional spiced ones,but interesting special flavors come out at certain times of the year. Chestnut in fall,sakura in spring..Mmmmmm. I hope you have a great experience.I love Japan to death despite the....slightly tainted underbelly for us gaijin. I hope I get to go back soon. I hope you don't mind if I pop in to read your blogs now and again. Xxoo Miss in NYC

excellent pictures as always
Jennifer great pictures... why dont you buy a mattress and a new heater? or can you get it fixed? what about portable electric heaters dont they have those? mom

I remember my first typhoon... it was August, and the power went out, so I was stuck inside my dark, humid apartment all day long with nothing to do. So of course I went outside and took video. :) Have fun visiting Jim!

your pics
these are really great shots...sounds like you are having the time of your life!

i thought you were only borrowing that shirt for new york... greeeeat