Monday, September 17, 2007

Visitors is fun

Strats and Anna came and visited for a week, I didnt have any time off so while I was at work they did stuff like going to Nagasaki on the 5 1/2 hour local train by mistake and hanging out in Nagasaki for about an hour beofre coming back, haha awesome. Anyways...

first night i took them to an Izakaya and fed them
i had fun with towels
Anna liked Magic World
then we went bowling, everyone had great form
except old man McAlpine......

this one time I bowled and then turned my back to the pins and I got a strike, then Strats did the same thing and so did Anna, it was amazing!!! 3 back turn strikes in a row, is that a world record or something!!!!
the next day i took them to Taiko practice......
but before hand we went pedal boating!!!!!
hey look at the tall maori man play the short drum!
afterwards we took a mean groups photo, note my badass helmet with a daffodil in it

then we went out of course, i like this group of photos all taken at the same(ish) time
I also like this sexy photo of me
the next day we went to Nokono, island which was rad
we hired bikes and Straton and Anna posed like honeymooners
we went to a beach with a mean as pontoon and did bombs and shit but i didnt take any photos......I did take a photo of the nice view though


at the end of the day we ended up at this really cute cafe which served toasated sandwishs and vitamines juices (see picture for correct spelling) and stuff, it was really awesome, such a relaxing place considering how close it is to the city

also they had this mean as old school shave ice maker, we thought it was just for show until the friendly owner fired it up and made us a free shave ice!

then this saturday we went out in Kokura (see post below) which was cool as drunken fun


thanks for comings dicks

The large motherly statue

So, this weekend (actually just Saturday) was pretty crazy, it was Straton and Annas last night here so we went out and stuff and I even got to DJ at Grassroots which was super fun and then we went to karaoke until 7:30am (!!!!) which was pretty neat and I got back to Kurume at about 10am and have been pretty much sleeping/watching stuff on youtube in my bed all weekend. so i thought today i better get out and do something, so I decided to go venture out to visit "Narita-san" and "Jibo Kannonzou".
Its big. "Jibo Kannonzou (the large motherly statue) was built in 1983. It is 62 metres high, the largest Kannonzou in Kyushu". Shit that means there is a bigger one somewhere else in Japan!!

This is a crap picture cos it cuts off the head but I really wanted to show the people so you could get some perspective of how big it is (you can click on the photo to see it bigger dick)

going in........

I was literally the only person in the statue the whole time, which was kinda fun and also kinda weird and creepy at the same time.....

At the top the view was pretty good although you could only look out of these little tiny 20x20cm windows.

Birds flew past.

At the bottom under the statue you could go here (again I was the only person there).

There was a life size diorama of people worshipping Buddha...

....and of animals worshipping Buddha.

and cool tunnels...

and a scary skull lined entrance to some room that I didnt go into cos I am a scardey cat...

outside I did some god poses by myself (yeah, I'm awesome!)

oh and this Dinosaur made of tyres....

.....and Godzilla made of tyres is fucking awesome!

Butter Sucks

I am never buying butter again, just look at my toast!

From now on I'm only buying spreadable spreads, like margarine and marmalade.

Butter sucks.

Also i just noticed theres a "upload video" function on this now, lets try: