More Japanamia

I spent a good chunk of time while I was in Japan planning all the great posts I was going to write for my blog. Now that I am home, time has slipped away from me - so I'm going to write the condensed version.

The first full day, Arnel took me to Nara - this funky little area that has a ton of temples, shrines and DEER. About 1200 to be exact. And when I say they are everywhere I mean it! The area is crawling with deer. You can walk right up to them and pet them. I made the mistake of buying some deer cookies and had to deal with a bunch of deer headbutting me and biting me... Learned my lesson! Don't feed the wildlife!!

That night, we met with a bunch of Arnel's friends at a bar and drank and ate a bunch of small different dishes. I tried chicken cartalidge (what??!) and pork fat.. as well as some other more palatable options. We were gonna do the Asian thing and stay out until the first train at 6 am back to where Arnel and Keiko live but decided to head home around midnight. Then decided to go to Karaoke. So around 1 am, we grabbed some more beer from Arnel's and hopped on bikes. Interesting trying to navigate on a bike when you're half drunk! The karaoke place was in an arcade, so we spent a little time playing the stupidest games we could find - the dancing one, a silly hand rhythm game, an arm wrestling game, etc. Then spent a few hours singing all the classics at karaoke (just the two of us) like Boys II Men. We sounded SO good! Noone in Korea will go to karaoke with me! I wonder why...

The next day, we got up late, went and then (surprise!) Arnel and Keiko were getting married!! We walked over to the city hall where they signed all their papers and I got to be one of their witnesses! Very cool! Thanks for letting me be a part of it, Arns and Keiko (or should I say K.J.) ;)

Anyways... more to come! I just got home and need to go to bed now!