Ok, so every day while at mount zao, we would go to family mart to get snacks. I would also look at the toys, and there was one small strange box which had the nintendo logo on it! I had no idea what it actually was though, and despite its cost i finally bought it! So here is my first unboxing.
Ok… awesome… lets start it all off with a blurry photo! this is why i have so many followers.
Lots of little useless things here!
The nintendo seal of… no tampering?
Blurrrryyyyy, but still, what have i gotten here :S
Some sort of weird yugioh card game!!!??? there are rules but i cant read them, you seem to have your own hand of cards, as does your opponent, and in the centre are lots of other cards, who im sure are battling!
Ok, im just going to post everything from my time in the snow since its better than having like 6 posts with only 3 things each!
We were staying at Mount Zao, which for you filthy weeaboos out there, is host to the five color pond from love hina (though i never took a picture)
The hotel we stayed at had hotsprings, and so, we had our hotspring episode! Again, i have no photos, but leave it up to your imaginations and blood filled noses. It was just like in my little girl cartoons; we were separated by gender, but that was not enough to stop the power of desire. Piles of sweaty of japanese men piled on one another so as to peer over the wall into the lands of estrogen. The first to reach the top of the wall slowly peered over, only to have his glasses fog up and and high pressure torrent of blood shoot out of his face, causing the meat pile to collapse in a giant cloud.
Also, the hot springs can be HOT, like burn burn hot!
MMMMmmmmm tasty snack!
This was the road i walked up multiple times each day so as to strengthen my weakened knees. It was a nice walk and sometimes would snow, which was also nice!
Iced over manhole! prevents 93% of ninja! GUARANTEED
There are gutters hidden out in the snow for rivers to sneak around in!
IGLOO!
Proof that i watched anime on japanese television! After this show was one piece.
Dinner at our hotel was the BEST it was banquet tier! Each night was something different, and always always always tasty! Breakfast was buffet but also had variety, including desserts!!!!! desserts at breakfast always makes people happy.
Table after the gorging phase.
Apparently the trees, when covered by snow, look like monsters. I sat through 20 minutes of boring ski lift to get there and THESE are the monsters…
Its buddhas necromancer brother again!!! looks pretty short doesnt he!?
thats because he is covered in a billion snows!
picture from up in the ski lift
Daily bird.
Snow looks nicer when there is a blue sky
The snowman: Christophe Davidson, our sorely missed brother
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The next day all three had amazing bowl haircuts due to the snow
That is where we were skiing!
On the final day of skiing, i decided to get a toboggan instead: this was the best decision ever. You can go super fast, and when you crash to stop, it doesnt hurt as much! though i still got massive bruises on the backs of my shins :/
Ok, so, first day on hoth, time to get skis and see if i can outrun that yeti.
Snow world by day
Snow world by night!
Whats really strange about those two pictures, is that i hadnt planned to do a contrast, and also, they were consecutive photos! so i hadnt taken any others alllllll day!
So… Skiing… I’ve never done it before, ill admit that. I am also not very good at learning to do it as i soon found out! There are 3 basic maneuvers in skiing: turning, stopping and gotta go fasting. I managed to get one perfected, and another i managed in my own special way.
It starts off all peaceful, going kinda horizontal across the snow, things arent too bad… 4 years olds are zooming past, but thats ok, they were learners once too (probably only hours prior though)
Reaching the edge of the slope, ok homey, time to slow down, youve got to turn around and go back the other way! No problem!
turning…. turning… turning.. okok, currently am facing straight down the slope…. instinct kicks in… GOTTA GO FAST! There is no more turning, only the human shaped engine of destruction that is me going down the slopes. I observe blueshift, i know i have broken at least 3 sound barriers, goodbye yeti! go eat someone else! but now i really need to stop! basic training never covered stopping unfortunately, and its not like i can just press brake or hold back on no joystick! I engage my built in stopping mechanism by falling to the ground.
Now, im sure you all did that when you were younger and know its a bad move. I am now learned. Falling over does not instantly take your velocity to zero, you still have your friends momentum and inertia to chill out with… and so i did as i skidded down the snow, tumbling away. One leg decided that since it had a ski attached, it was more than likely born to be a helicopter and attempted to spin its way to freedom. It was forgetting that i still had a knee attached, though tried to remedy this by ripping it apart.
A few tumbles later and i was free of both skis, having left them in my path of ruin.
So yeah, skiing isnt really my thing… the next day my knee was megahertzing and sometimes decided it didnt want to hold my body up no more, instead choosing to let me stumble around stupidly.
Yeah… this was another day of just sitting on the train, and then a bus, and then a smaller bus…
Instead ill tell you about the best breakfast food ever! McGriddles!
This is the bacon egg and cheese variant. looks just like a bacon and egg mcmuffin right? NO YOU ARE WRONG WHY WOULD I WRITE ABOUT IT IF IT WAS THE SAME
okokok, you cant really see it, but the bread…. is actually PANCAKES! and there is maple syrup in it!! Oh man its so good, and it has like 80% of my sodium and cholesterol requirements for the day, so it is HEALTHY!!!
Getting to the snow also marks the last day of my JR Pass which i havent really talked about. It is basically immunity from paying for most of the trains, buses and ferries in japan! It is expensive to get, but actually paying the fares (if you are doing even a few trips to different cities) is much more.
It looks pretty nice too!
Ok, now since ive actually completed all of snow world, i can tell you now that i will be squishing it up into like 2 posts since there arent many photos!
To get in the mood for todays post, press play while reading! no, do it.
So today sean and i went to shirakawa-go, which was the visual inspiration for the town hinamizawa, the setting for higurashi no naku koro ni (lit trans: Mind fuck express)
Wait… i dont remember it looking like this in my little girl cartoons…. FUCKING WINTER
Ok, so this was my first time touching snow, eating snow, slipping over on snow, freezing my hands on snow etc. I am happy with snow.
ANYWAY time for the anime pictures, before the rest of them that i took!!
Rika and Satako’s house!!! The bottom has that stupid temp wall up because of the snow, but trust me, its the right house!!!!!
The bridge
Water wheel… i guess
Wait… whose shrine is this??
Well how the fuck am i meant to know if this is the right one???
Yeah… i think i got the right one
Anyway, thats kind of it for the pictures from the anime, now just enjoy the pictures.
Shit man, i should be an animator!
My first snowball… apparently i do it wrong since i apply mega chakra compression so they are solid blocks of ice.
I don’t wan no trouble!
Vlad, I think theres some snow still under the car you can use
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Daily bird
NO! poor telephone line ;_;
WUT… this was right outside the elementary school…
On a related note! While walking along the main road, a bus full of schoolgirls went past; one waved at me, so i waved back. Then.. ALL OF THEM started waving! Another thing on my japan to do list completed.
These things turn snow filled roads into regular roads
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Mice are a threat to all life
So that was the day!!! on the way home i bought a new flavour of mentos
Apparently its chinese apricot or peach or some shit… but it is poison. i hate it.
Hope you all enjoyed today! Tomorrow is umineko mansion! for reals this time!
ALRIGHT!!! Another day with animals!!! This time its magic monkey mountain in kyoto!
Always start the day with torii
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Keep this in mind
All these monkeys are just sitting around! they are everywhere! you arent meant to look them in the eyes or touch their food because apparently theyll go crazy. I guess thats true because i saw a few spaz out for no reason during the day!
Oh shit nigga, wut you doin???? This monkey just kept licking the rocks…
Forever alone
you can see all the city from monkey mountain, stupid monkeys dont appreciate shit though.
Haters, hating, etc
This little monkey couldnt reach the water with his tiny head, so he would stick his hand in there, then lick the water off it!!
Oh i didnt mean to intrude! (They were actually fighting, but as per usual, my pictures tend to see what i want to see)
You get to feed the monkeys if you go inside the magic monkey feedin house! for 100￥ you get a bag of cut up apple, and you go and hand it to them (which… you know… youve already seen in the video…) NOW, some of the monkeys are rude little rat dicks. If you give them one piece, sometimes they just start screaming till you give them more! Others chase off the babby ones. Other than that they are polite and dont snatch, since they know i have so much apple.
Then came the weird part… near the end of my third bag, some of them were still coming back for more… but they didnt have space for no apple, they were still chewing it slowly, bits falling out of their mouths, like they were old people or something… and still they reached towards me wanting more of that apple, they just had to have it man.
He is protecting his jimmies from unwanted rustling
Moss
The shuriken in the centre indicates this is a common shortcut taken by ninja
FUCK noone told me about this!?!?!?!?
No Visit.
Bamboo forest!
A shrine for getting a girlfriend ;_;
WHOOOOSH
This isnt even an advertised diorama.. .someone randomly made it on the side of the road…
bamboo forest!
wut
mandarin crop
ANYWAY that was the day! Later sean and i went to nagoya to get ready to go to shirakawa tomorrow! and we decided to see what movies they had on the pay channel!
Cool movies yo, got your thor there and wait… is that?
It plays golf with the bathing suit!!! My favourite! thankyou japan!
The plan was to go to shirakawa-go, but after looking up how to get there i just ended up getting angry and decided i would leave it for now.
NEXT plan was to go to the umineko mansion in tokyo! so i hopped on the shinkansen for the 3 hour trip!.. I left at 3:30…. so i got there at like 6 when it was already closed.
So i went to akihabara for a few hours before my train back to kyoto and went to a retro games store there! played some virtual boy, mario with a steering wheel controller etc.
Also bought some cards that were mario themed, they are much better than the crappy code gayass ones i bought a week ago! i havent taken pictures yet so i have nothing for today. My bad.
This is the only picture / video i have of myself in japan! I think if this is all i have to show for my trip, it will prove i had a great time. DEER ARE AWESOME!!!
So today we went to nara! home of todai-ji shrine and a huge buddha and lots of deer!!! Here come the pictures!
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So what do you feed a poor lonely deer?
Deer crackers!!!! i tried some, they arent too bad… like old people wheat biscuits.
Fight Fight Fight!
Deer feasting on a fallen child
Male deer aiming to be alpha
Arrested for crimes against the crown
Gaaaaay
Just goes to show what a simple drybrush can do to change a model!
What the deer and i did that day, i can never speak of again.
Torii
Kua Lanjiao?!
Largest wooden building in the world!??!???
Buddha had a necromancer for a brother apparently… god damn
CRUSH TINY HOUSE!
Buddha is HUGE
Fuck off PacMan
Another dirt crop well underway
This was my favourite deer, i have like 10 photos of her
