Bowling

I got invited to join the folks from the matsuri (the festival I played Taiko drums in) for a night of bowling in Towada at Eagle Bowling Lanes. How could I refuse?

Rokkasho Salmon Festival

Greetings and salutations, true believers. Welcome to my post about the Salmon Festival in Rokkasho (just in case you missed the title...)

I drove up to the coast to visit with some fellow Canucks (Tom and Ashley from BC) and catch some fishes with my baaaare haaaaaands. Now, the salmon count was down this year, so it wasn't a 'salmon catch' per se, but it was a good time. As I was saying, I drove up to their place and met up with them Saturday night. Tom was working in the tourist booth helping English speaking folks get their bearings and had already done one round of catching with Charlotte earlier that day. So, when I got up there, it was time to prep the fishies and make up some dinner! Tim (my neighbouring JET) was also in town to visit with his friend Juliann, and Katie was in town as well. Quite the crew! Now, on to the fiiiiiish:

Here we have what will soon become delicious pesto salmon.

Birthday Weekend~!

My coworkers surprised me... several times... with cakes!!! :D Yaaaaay cake! Friday cakes are great, but Friday *Birthday* cakes are best. Didn't have anything really planned except for getting together with Mel (who I haven't seen in years... since she ran away and joined the JET programme) on Saturday.

Guts shoooooow! (Doo good?)

Monday of the long-weekend was Sports Day in Japan and Thanksgiving in Canada. So I decided to go and support a fellow JET in his MMA fighting debut. I made the drive out alone and managed to not get lost (yippie!). Made my way towards the 八戸市　公会堂 after Skyping with my family who were just finishing a Sunday evening Turkey dinner. It was super nice to see everyone who made it out to my parents for the meal.

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Beef and Garlic adventures!

Greetings and salutations! Tim, Katie, Juliann and I set off for the wilds of Takko for the Beef and Garlic festival last Sunday. Here's the deal: you bring some food & cooking utensils (we picked up some 'shrooms and yakisoba) then head down to Takko-machi. Grab a grill, buy some of the beef and garlic available and toss it on.

You can tell they were expecting a good turn out from the base... heh heh heh

Since I seem to be in Suzie homemaker mode...

Garlic mashed potatoes, honey garlic chicken and grilled asparagus...

Small potatoes plus good sized clove of garlic.

To the Book deposi-- I mean Mall!

Hey folks,

It's not for lack of trying that I haven't sent a package back to North American full of strange things, it's that I  haven't quite found the right things to ship back just yet. Now I get to see many strange things, but they're just not... the *right* strange things. I went down to the Shimoda Mall with David and Tim and here are some of the items we came across at Village Vanguard.

Hello Kitty Airfresheners.

Hmmm...

One of my cousins, who's pregnant with her first child, posted something on facebook that made me realize what a great day I'm having.

She posted a picture that said "I'm making a human. What have you done today?"

First of all, the typhoon that had been coming closer and closer all weekend ended up going around us. So I did not get washed away, nor did I need to take a canoe to work.

As I rode my bike to work this morning, I was greeted by this sight: