I really should be cleaning..

[rkold]

Because tomorrow the painters are coming to do the dinning room and I need to clean it up enough for them to pain and I have to leave for the train at 6:00 pm and I haven't packed yet. But instead I am sitting on LJ because I am a bad person like that.

paleonaturist is sure to get a kick out of my non-doll Sato pictures lol Same with cc_lemon) BTW don't expect a lot of doll pictures cause after falling into the lake my arm hurt a lot and I was not going to carry much with me unless I thought I needed it.




Unlike in March, this time when I went to Owakudani I made sure to dress warm enough, of course this time it was not freezing cold lol




behind those clouds somewhere is Fuji-san


yum, sulphur fumes!




the traditional food to eat in Owakudani is hard boiled eggs cooked in the sulphur/water. They turn black and sell for like 400 yen. Here they are loading up the egg ropeway to send out a new delivery of them to the tourist shops closer to the ropeway station. I did not try one as I hate hard boiled eggs with a passion.




Happy Japanese tourists eating their eggs








The lake I fell sort of into later in the day


Hakone jinja








we didn't go down to the shore since we wanted to make a bus




more of the lake lol



No pictures from yunessun, though you are allowed to take them in the bathing suit area, I was just not going to risk my couple hundred dollar camera. ^_^;;


Fuji-san, of course


If I ever go to Japan in season, I am so climbing it.



As usual I fail as a doll owner and my pictures from Sato are probably not going to be interested in them lol


My membership plaque for my Yo Tenshi Yuh (Kanon) and paleonaturist's as well. For those curious, yes my family name is misspelled ~.~


illicit non-flash pictures of all the Sato One Offs






















Look cc_lemon you're here to with Miranda.


The SwD Mamu I no longer own. ^_^;;; but they spelt my name right! I wish I was there for my Yuki (Gino)!


chocolate_chip from hands down my favorite part of that day, KARAOKE!


My least non fail picture of Kyoto station


Kyoto Tower, Tokyo Tower's uglier and lamer cousin


Fuji-san through the clouds from the plane. I flew from Nagoya to Hakodate thanks to my Air Pass discounted ticket. It's faint cause the weather was not very clear but you can see it.


Towadako from the air. ee970 and I drove alone the edge closest to us when we went to Hirosaki!


I think this is the Shimokita Peninsula from the air, if not it might be Aomori



Right after that I got in trouble for taking pictures from the plane lol


The next set of pictures will be some places that are a little more off the beaten path. Lots of people go to places like Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hakone, and Kamakura. It's not that people don't visit these places Oirase was crawling with Chinese tourists, but if you visit say Japan Guide things in Tohoku are just less popular because they are often harder to get to and involve buses.

I also need to share some pictures from April/May at some point since I realized I don't think I shared pictures of Sakata (watch me pretend to be in Okuribito (Departures) and unknowingly get hit on) Haguro-san (sacred mountain of the Dewa Sanzan, the other two were closed on account of snow) a few pictures from when I rented a private bath in Zao Onsen, and Yonezawa (burial place of Uesugi Kenshin)

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[cc-lemon.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous, gorgeous photos! Every one of them could be a post card shot! And I definitely loved the ones of the Tenshi wall. I really would love to see that wall in person some day.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I heard rumors that the plaques are not always the same since they have so many people, but I don't know if this is true or not. I never would have thought to look but chocolate_chip mentioned she saw my name. I was pretty amused, it's not just tenshi though, FCS is there too and I think Genji and probably something else. I think it is more things bought exclusively at Sato. I've requested to have my name for some of my FCS once I found out about the list but I've never seen myself listed before.

Thanks, I've been practicing a lot with my camera in an attempt to get better. I managed to get some really nice ones in Tohoku and Hokkaido. :D

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

WTF, why can't you take pictures from the plane?! I want to see pictures from the creepy tunnel thing~

[rkold.livejournal.com]

No idea, it might have been because we were getting ready to land soon? It was weird because United had no problem letting me take pictures on other flights. I'm thinking it must have been the landing, but coast was just so pretty from the air.

I don't have any tunnel pictures. I did sort of 2 creepy tunnels >>;; I took the one between Hokkaido and Aomori in the train, but because it was so dark I wasn't even sure when we entered the tunnel or when we left lol

The creepiest tunnel for me had a no picture policy and was under Zenkoji in Nagano. My knees would not stop shaking afterwords.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Darn, I really wanted to see it. BTW, I just paid for my first 3 imps. :P

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

I also fail at commenting, apparently.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Oh, which 3? From the lab or private? BTW a lot fo time I am happy to frimp things so let me know what you want XD;; I also like to decant sometimes.

I'm such a sad addict and weeping inside about missing the Trunk Show tomorrow. I've been trying desperately to get some things from it.

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Spooky, the November 13, and the peppermint yule. Paulette gave me some stuff to sniff, and I'm totally addicted now. I'm especially loving Nyx.

(Private, of course. I'm gonna make a list of stuff I'm interested in to post on my lj, probably.)

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Some people like to buy imps from the lab, I tend to not, just bottles.

I am supposed to be getting a bottle of original Spooky but it hasn't come yet. I need to ping the person. I was thinking of getting the reissue, usually I can tell the difference between resurrecteds but sometimes like both.

I want a bunch of rares. ~.~

I've not tried Nyx, I've had bad luck with 13s and tend not to like them. I need to work on selling the bottles that didn't work ;;_;; Are you a foodie, or do you not know yet?

I'm a huge foodie for scents though I like some florals. You'd be amazed how many people are into BPAL and it is sooooooo addicting.