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Archive - January 2010 |
Yup, this whole house thingy began 6 months
ago in San Diego when we found this house online. After lots
of controversy and problems surrounding the purchase, we
made it happen today. The house needs tons of work and much
of the repair progress will be chronicled on this page. We
needed to get the numbers from the electric meter and rode
our bikes four miles each way in forty degree temperatures
in the pouring rain with much of the stuff we purchased for
working on the house. It pretty much sucked but no choice.
From tomorrow going to being working on the house.
Click for complete information about the house |
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Nope not talking about food. Today was the
Japanese version of the Super Bowl. This is American
Football with a few variations. The rules are basically the
same as college football in the United States. The two
leagues consist of a collegiate league and a corporate
league. The rice bowl is the culmination of the season with
the top team from each league competing for the national
championship. When the players get injured, they run out and cover
them with a blanket and walk them off the field. They
covered one of the players with a honey bear blanket but
could not take the picture in time.
More pictures of the football game - (newest pictures added at the bottom of the page of this link) |
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 Happy New Year - We would like to wish all of you
Happy Holidays and a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New
Year. We should soon be in the new house and
will be posting even more pictures along with some videos. We really
appreciate everyone checking this site and especially all
the email from our friends. Really looking forward to all of
you visiting us in Japan.
More recent pictures - (newest pictures added at the bottom of the page of this link) |
 Nara
Park - Today we headed back to Nara Park to see a
couple of famous temples again. We saw lots more deer and
plenty of people. Within the park, many yatai were set up. A yatai (屋台) is a small, mobile food
stall in Japan typically selling ramen or other hot food.
The name literally means "shop stand." Many of them were
selling hot sweet potatoes and senbei which is a snack you
can feed to the deer. Nara Park (奈良公園, Nara Kōen) is a
public park located in the city of Nara, Japan, at the foot
of Mount Wakakusa, established in 1880. The over 1,200 wild
sika deer (シカ or 鹿 shika) freely roaming around in the park
are classified as a "Natural Monument." The park is also
home to the Nara National Museum and Todai-ji, where the
largest wooden building in the world houses a 50' tall
statue of Buddha.
More information about Nara Park |
 Kōfuku-ji
Temple - We visited the two most famous temples in
the park. The first temple is called Kōfuku-ji. Kōfuku-ji
(興福寺, Kōfuku-ji) is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nara,
in Nara prefecture, Japan. Kōfuku-ji, along with several
Buddhist temples, and other sites in Nara, received the
distinction of being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site
under the name: "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara." The
picture is of the five story pagoda.
More information about Kōfuku-ji |
 Tōdai-ji
Temple - Tōdai-ji (東大寺, Tōdai-ji, Eastern Great
Temple), is a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of
Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall (大仏殿 Daibutsuden), the
largest wooden building in the world, houses the world's
largest statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese
simply as Daibutsu (大仏). The temple is a listed UNESCO World
Heritage Site as "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara",
together with seven other sites including temples, shrines
and places in the city of Nara. Sika deer, regarded as
messengers of the gods in the Shinto religion, roam the
grounds freely.
More information about Tōdai-ji |
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