This arrived in the mail this week from the wonderful Steph!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I have watched the first 5 episodes and they have helped me get through a bad cold. Ewan makes everything better...
The Hamamatsu Kite Festival was amazing! Neighbourhood teams flying huge kites, trying to wrap the strings around each other and tug until the friction caused their opponent's strings to burn, sending the kite to the ground. Drums pounding, horns blowing, teams chanting....
(Above) The photo that started it all. It was all Aaron's idea. A self-taken photo of the three of us. The rules? You couldn't smile or look at the camera. Let the insanity begin...
(Above) I thought the sleeping kittens I saw with my dad were bad. Here they are sleeping in rocking chairs. Very disturbing.
(Above) EEEEEEKKKKKK!!!!! MUKADE!!!!!
(Above) One of Aaron's famous model shots
(Above) This guy was just walking the streets with his homemade cell phone sword.
Tiffany was very excited by her egg-wrapped sausage!
Pirate ship!
(Above) It was just too tempting...Aaron taking a model shot....He didn't realize until afterwards that I was there! muuhuuhhaaahaaa!
(Above) Tiffany was very excited about her green tea ice!
(Above) What boys are for... carrying your stuff.
(Above) Aaron greasing up the grill in preparation for our delicious dinner.
(Above) Tiffany in front of the onsen. Both Tiff and Aaron were brave and experienced the wonderfulness of the onsen.
Hida Village
(Above) Aaron talking to his mom, who called to check if we were okay.
(Above) Becky and her friend Shay were in Takayama at the same time, so we hung out at the Hida Village together.
(Above) These two were obsessed with feeding the fish.
Tiffany wanted to make sure that the lone duck and the tiny fish got some food.
