Japan-Round1-FIGHT!

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Hey guys I'm back!  I was in Tokyo having weddin' photots taken...guess what?? No photos for ya! You'll just have to wait for the right time.  Until then, I will spoil you with these pics I took during the trip.

Mmmm..Airplane food. I'm a freak when it comes to airline food. I usually eat EVERYTHING and I normally love it.  Dunno why.  Here we have some fish with beef, Japanese style!

So here we go.  That kid next to me had some serious issues.  He was scracthin' his thing (I hope and pickin' his nose which I think he ate)  Gross boy.  Don't underestimate the corner of my eye.

It took us an entire day to reach our location.  I ran into AnD's very own Daniel Wu in the terminal when we just arrived (probably the same flight).  He was all geared up for vacation to Hawaii...I sure wish I was headed in that direction, but the photos were way important. 

Once we arrived we took a bullet train to our next stop "Shizuoka".  Mom's gonna hate me for saying this, but everytime I visited Japan as a kid I've always wanted to ride the bullet. She would always point at the JR line and say just ride the train, its the same thing.  So this day was like a dream come true. hahaha

Yea, a childhood dream come true!  Time to ride the train!  Whoop whoop.  This sucka hauled ass and only took about an hour, which would've taken 4 by car.

Let's GO!

I never travel without a gaming machine. In this case I brought my itouch, my dingoo and my DS. hahaha.  Now I could never be bored while waiting.  I was mainly playin' around with the itouch.  Maybe I should do some game reviews...some very interesting games which the DS and psp better watch out for.

The place we stayed was really like a small town.  I think we were the only two walking on the streets.  We had a few days to kill due to weather changes and walked wherever we could walk to.   First place we had to find was FOOD!  We walked into this random place:

I was so lookin' forward to the food, but couldn't eat much until after we took the photos.  Ida and I found this local restaurant that serves soba noodles.  mmmm...freakin' so good.  I had the fresh tuna sashimi on rice.  mmmm. 

I was in heaven.  mmmmm...

So was Ida.  A simple dish, but mmm, mmm, good.

The place also had a self service area where we could choose some appetizers (as MissScarlet says, vampire food)  we staked these babies and ate em' all.

It rained a little, but that didn't stop us from checkin' out the joint.  Found a fun gaming center and I got totally addicted to those coin machines....you know the one where you drop coins on the tray and try to push out more coins.  I could live there.

Here's a map which is even more cool cause Mt Fuji is on it. We noticed a posting for a zoo.  I couldn't believe it, we had nothin' else to do, so we decided to check out the safari.

Before doin' that we spent the day at an outlet.  Its a lot like the U.S types.  Best part??  I couldn't believe we found a Cold Stone.  Holy crap...I'm in heaven again.  I had to get the 'Like it' size.  I wasn't allowed the "gotta have it" Size. hahaha.

After the outlet we ventured into this BBQ styled rest....the food was amazing.

mmmmm.. Let me cook for you!

That's right.  Playing cooking mama on the DS has paid off.  Finally.

Okay, today we took a cab to the safari.  Taxi drivers probably make more money than actors.  We took a 30 minute ride that costs us almost 700 hk dollars.  What the hell.  The place we stayed had no buses going to this place.  I'll explain why in a minute.  The pic above is one of the tour buses that takes you through this safari.  I never knew it would be like Jurrasic park.

We were given a few trays of food.  What's this raw meat?  We were going to feed??

Awww...This bear reminds me of Mario.  We got really close and even fed the bears!  Crazy.

We got to feed the lions as well.  We used prongs to give them the raw meat.  I should start using those when I feed mario snacks.  As you can see, you could stick your finger through the cage...but really?

Awwww....IT looks like Mario.

I had to post this pic only because I wanted to say these words:

Mami got an ass like a donkey, with a monkey,

look like King Kong. 

The animal that actually resembles mario the most. 

Awww...It looks like Mario.  He'll probably end up lookin' like that soon. hahahaha.

Somebody taking a tan and showin' off his balls.

Awww...It looks like Mario.  No, maybe it looks more like me.

Okay, keep doing it.  Awww. It looks like Mario sleeping. 

Simba's pride...now locked away.  Simba was hungry and pissed. 

Now this is why you couldn't take a bus.  You could only enter the park with your own car.  There is no public transportation to this place.  Every animal seen pictured so far can be just inches away from you.  There were plenty of rules and security, but would you really want to drive your spanki' new pimping BMW next to a cheetah or hell even a rhino?

Feeding the animals made me hungry too.  So afterwards we found the best sushi bar yet.  You even order by touch screen.  The only thing missing was wifi connection so I could order via itouch.

Still hungry at this point, but I gave up so I can eat at other places. 

Here is that coin machine I was explaining about earlier.  Mario one is the best!  We won an extra bucket full of coins...only to lose them all later.

Here's a night view from the hotel room.  Mt Fuji is right in front of us.  Can't you see it?

Okay, here's a better view. Yes, we were that close. 

Alright, I can't end this without at least one picture with the cherry blossoms.  We got to the place with perfect timing with all the cherry blossoms out. 

Oh alright. One more.

Yea! 

Stay tuned for Round 2.  Comin' up soon.  More food, more cherry blossoms and an awesome night with AnD friends from Japan! 

KANPAI!