The First Morning

The first day I arrive, we decide to go to the Tsujiki fish market. It opens early in the morning so we woke up at 5:00am to get there on time! That was quite a feat for me for anyone that knows me!

The fish market is a gigantic warehouse. Imagine an area of a couple walmarts. Except all the merchandise is seafood! Inside there are carts, weird drum-cars (see the video), and people running around like mad to bring the daily catch in.

1. View from the center of the market

2. Doesn't he look friendly?

3. A bunch of little Fishies!

4. Tuna is Expensive!
5. Lobster! Yummy!

6. Shrimp to throw at Jordan!

7. Clams!

Here is a short walk-through video I took in the market:

After the fish market we decided to visit a sushi bar next door to have breakfast! Mmmm Jordan and Flat Coke this is what you can enjoy if you come visit us :)

We wanted to get the freshest items so we told the Sushi chef to order the items for us. We got a few items that we never had before. Here's some of the selection we had (I didnt take a picture of all of them):

1. Sweet Shrimp (Ama Ebi)

2. Another type of Shrimp

3. Sea Urchin!

4. I think it's Clam...

5. The salmon was only $1.50! Cindy would love it!

6. Baked Eel. Jordan can Handle this!

7. Don't know what it is!

8. I think it's squid tentacles!

Everything tasted great and was super fresh! I forgot to take a picture of the Salmon eggs. But for anyone that's had them before in the U.S. they are usually extremely salty. The ones here were not salty at all and they were great! It may be because they are fresh and don't need to be preserved? I'm not quite sure why.

We had quite a few items that we weren't quite sure what it was. This won't be the last time that happens either!

So... Did this post make you hungry???

You know you're getting old when...

Ok Jordan, heres another post for you! :D

You know you're getting old when you go and have some drinks on Friday and you don't get carded when you're used to getting carded every time.

Then, on the weekend you go to Del Taco for lunch and you get the senior discount!

What's going on here?!?!?

Beginning with the end.

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I have a big, black, uhm.. Appendage.

... And it's not a finger, a toe, an arm, or a leg.

So I went out for a bite to eat with Cindy today. Actually, I had already eaten dinner. But Cindy was going to skip dinner so I insisted that she eat and I went to meet up with her and ate a second dinner. Maybe I shouldn't have because...

After dinner she thrust upon me what felt like a long, black, rubbery appendage. It was BIG. Like it was LONG and WIDE at the same time... At least along with it was some gooey liquid. That helps take care of the sting.

She also gave me uhm... a longish item with a hook on the end leading to an egg-shaped bubble. Hmmmm....

OK. So Apparently... It still has batteries in it!

I also received what feels like a round, flexible object about an inch in diamater kind of like a ring.... What the heck would she do with THAT?????

Theres a long, bullet-shaped item, but unfortunately it seems impotent. I guess it must be getting a little too old.

Ok this is SO wrong. I hope no one digs around in the trunk of my car.

CINDY YOU BETTER COME BACK ALIVE!!!!

Sneaky Previews

There are some really cool people out there that demanded I did this little thingy (you know who you are!!!) So, for you cool people: this is for you!

For anyone that doesn't know what's going on -- I took a trip to Japan three weeks ago, and I'm going to use this to share the photos I took.

You might ask, "What exactly will I see here?" Well here's a little preview. We will be exploring questions such as:





What is this Woman doing?







What is going on with this statue???






What are these monkeys doing???









What is THAT?








Why is Hello Kitty giving us the finger?




I'll talk about these, and other fun things that I ended up seeing in Japan!

I will probably start off a little slow since i have a lot of photos to organize (and im still waiting for photos to get to me that other people took). Plus, a certain person will soon be away for 2 weeks :( and we wouldn't want her to fall too far behind!

But I figured I should set this up now and give you all a little preview!

Hope you all like it!