Being in Japan is a little like the unwritten rules in baseball, unless you are in baseball or follow it pretty closely , you don't know the rules. I actually bought a book about Japan that had some stuff that even Erica didn't know about. ( red lanterns outside a doorway means neighborhood pub, blowing your nose in public is frowned upon...but all those other disgusting noises they make are OK?) It is cherry blossom time in Sasebo, just beautiful, not sure why we don't plant like millions of these trees everywhere.We took a little field trip to Nagasaki and Kumamoto. I'm jumping around here, but hey , back to being in Japan... everything is small, except the money (1000 yen = $12 around there) so the cars are small , the roads are skinny, the doorways are short, it sort feels like your in legoland...in an ashtray, cause everybody smokes. Everything is really clean,on time ( which is helpful to try and figure out which train or bus your supposed to take ) and polite. Japanese people are not the friendliest people around, unless they're drunk, then pretty friendly until fall down time....so friendly for about a half an hour.
Nagasaki atomic bomb museum ..is what you would imagine. The castle in Kumamoto is world class, just beautiful. It sort of seems like all japanese cities were designed by the same guy...shopping area here, call it ginza,restaurants next to the shopping area, big beautiful park in the middle some where and then plain bordering on ugly offices,apartments, hotels and then huge ostentatious pachinko bars that look like they are on fire, just all the cigarette smoke coming out of them. Almost everyone backs into parking spaces, do you think people that don't get tickets?
Anyways we're back home now, all jet lag screwed up. Slept like 22 hours the 1st night and then 4 the next, UUGGGHHHH.
love and warm thoughts from home
carrie and glen
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