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Well, let's start out by saying that today I found myself wearing pink Pokemon ears and eating Turkish food. All at the same time.

April Fools!

Oh, wait...no. That was true.

I've been pretty busy this week, having guests here and all. This weekend was not a regular relaxing weekend. Yesterday we went mad shopping, to all the fun places around here. Nothing picture worthy, though I did finally get that artbook from "Howl's Moving Castle." It's got storyboards and sketches. Very very cool!

But today was the exciting today. It was a little rough going for me at times, because I felt really sick all day. Which was so unfair. But we headed up to Nagoya Castle after we ate a bit at Nagoya Station. It was a beautiful sunny day, and although the sakura isn't quite in bloom yet, it's getting there and there is grass and greenery and leaves. The price had doubled since January because now they have all this stuff set up. And for the Expo, they've taken the Golden Dolphins down from the top of the castle and put them in this specially built exhibit. We waited in line for ten minutes so we could have our special ten seconds with each dolphin. We couldn't take any pictures, which sucked, but we did get to touch them for luck. I've never felt that much gold before. However, no pictures. However, the castle was beautiful. It was so nice to be someplace a little quieter and greener than the rest of Nagoya.

They also had an exhibit up of some bonsai. Some of it was really beautiful, and I thought that Dad would appreciate these.

After Nagoya Castle, we headed to a legendary place of amusement, the place that every Japanese spoiled, disobedient child dreams of. Pokepark! A special ten-minute walk amusement park delight full of Pokemon! Yes, that's right. It's free to go in, but expensive for everything else. The rides and stuff are absolutely adorable, though. We all bought character hats, and here are Amber and Aimee posing.

I'm sure Aimee will post pics of me with my little pink ears. :) I don't even know the name of the Pokemon whose ears I wore so charmingly. Here are some pics of the rides.

While there, we were a bit hungry. I was dying to have an ice cream sundae in a pokeball, but instead we had some Turkish kebab sandwiches instead. Pretty tasty. The guys at the booth were from Turkey, so they spoke to us in an odd blend of Turkish, Japanese, and English. All in all, a successful day. Stay tuned. More craziness will follow. It always does. :)

Posted by Mandy at April 1, 2005 08:25 PM