We found this park last summer, we were originally headed there because we were told that it had turtles. We didn’t find any turtles but lots of crawdads, and for my kids who have never seen a crawdad (me either!) this was a neat experience. There was also a Japanese dad & his son there fishing for them so it was neat to watch them as well. The Japanese boy even gave a crawdad to Bubby. The biggest [Read more…]
Japanese Kokeshi Dolls
I think the one souvenirs that almost everyone leaves Japan with is a Kokeshi doll, and I’ve even seen some leave with LOTS of them. We’re leaving with 2 and newer style one and a scroll one, I’d like to get 1 more before we leave….an vintage/antique or ‘real’ one. The scroll ones have been nice for us Americans as I’ve seen them used at many going away parties where the friends and co-workers [Read more…]
Japanese Festival Parade
These pictures are from the last years (2007) Misawa Summer festival‘s parade. It’s neat because they carry these huge floats down the street. Some of the floats are a bit creepy with the huge fake ‘people’ but others like the Stitch one are really neat. Check out the linked site for more information on the parade. The lady with a cart is selling ice cream.
L
Snowboarding in Japan
Snowboarding is something fun Boo and Mr. B have gotten to experience here in Japan. Living here in Misawa provides several mountains that aren’t too far for snowboarding/skiing during the winter months, so they were able to go quite a few times. Boo really enjoys it and I’m sure he’ll miss it when we move to AL. I don’t know what he likes better the snowboarding or afterwards resting in the [Read more…]
Our First Winter In Misawa, Japan 2006
Our first winter here in Misawa consisted of LOTS of snow. One of our friends has been lucky and experienced 2 mild winters so far and I’ve been meaning to show her pics of our first winter, so here they are C. Of course our first winter we didn’t yet have a snow blower and after a morning with the sidewalk pic, Mr. B decided we’d better get one. So it was great for the rest of the winter but [Read more…]
Hotokegaura
Hotokegaura is located on the ‘hacthet’ part of the island in the Shimokita Peninsula. They are rock formations that have been carved by the wind and nature. They are said to resemble Buddahs. We’ve only seen them from a birds-eye view and this is one place I want to go back to and walk around before we leave Japan. The first we seen them was on a 12-hour day trip around the whole hatchet part [Read more…]
Miss Veedol Beach
Miss Veedol beach is close to Misawa. It’s kinda confusing because there is Miss Veedol beach and Miss Veedol Swimming beach, this is NOT the swimming beach. Unlike in the states you can’t just go to the beach and go swimming here due to strong rip tides, we are restricted to only swimming in swimming beaches where they have large concrete barriers to prevent you being carried away by the rip tide. [Read more…]
Fukuchi Water Park
We went to Fukuchi water park in Hachinohe today, it’s about 45 mins to 1 hour from Misawa. Much closer than Kenji world (3 hours) and cheaper too. It was only 1000 Yen for adults ($10) and 500 yen ($5) for the kids. The restaurant there was okay, it had some weird (Japanese) food choices but the kids were happy with white rice and french fries, plus for 300 yen you could get an all you could drink [Read more…]
Earthquake!
Wow last night (or should I say this morning) at approx. 12:26 am we were woken to the biggest earthquake we’ve felt yet here in Misawa! Praise God no one was hurt here locally and there was no major damage! Needless to say waves of terror went through us as we bolted from bed and ran to grab the kids and head downstairs. It was a 6.8 Earthquake that struck the prefecture below us and the news [Read more…]
Mt. Fuji
Mr. B and Boo were lucky enough to be able to take an Itt trip to Tokyo to climb Mt. Fuji. They had a great time and made it almost to the top of Mt. Fuji. Unfortantly the weather wasn’t very cooperative and it ended up being rainy and chilly and they had to stop because Boo was getting too cold and another member on the trip became hypothermic, so Mr. B decided they’d gone far enough. Boo was [Read more…]