My Lump

I got beat up...by a metal pole. I just turned around and there it was.



And this is after about 20 minutes of icing my wound. I'll keep you posted on my condition.

Bamboo and Beppu: A Photo Blog

So...as you may have read on Tori's blog, we went to Usuki to check out the bamboo festival last weekend. I don't have much to say about it except...COOL! It was really fun. Here are a bunch of pictures.

The day shots are from some castle ruins from earlier in the day...before we had to run away from our Tsurusaki stalker (an old lady who wanted to eat pears and chat all afternoon).















Then...the next day, we went to Beppu again to do some Christmas shopping. We finished early, so we hung out in a beeeeautiful park. At the end of the evening, we went down to the beach and I had to take some pictures.

















(That orange orb in the sky is the MOON. Oooooooh, neat.)


And that basically wraps up the weekend.

Hope you enjoyed!