Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Da 4-Day Weekend

This weekend was filled with adventure, plungers, craziness, and life threatening problems. Oh yes, and pumpkin carving-ness.


Friday:
The rabbit plunger in the face shooting!!! Followed by eating of the Hambagu, then more violence!!!


Saturday:
Road Trip To Yamadera (山寺)!!!

Sarah – Driver
Jiin – Navigator
Annie – The Sick One
Alex – The Sick One’s Translator

Sarah and Jiin picked up Annie and Alex up from the Matsushima-Kaigan Station @ 9 a.m. Then enjoyed the 3-hour car ride filled with Chinese music, apple eating, and lots of fun!!! We arrived around 12-ish and then we did the whole climbing up to see the Mountain Temple! As we walked up, some Japanese people cheered us on saying, “Ganbatte!” (Try your hardest!). Climbing up to the top didn’t really take that long, but we all took our time and took many pictures. On the way down, hunger began to takes its toll on the travelers, so we decided to eat at this soba (buckwheat noodles) place at the bottom of the mountain. Yamagata is famous for their soba!! Most of us had Zarusoba (a type of cold noodles) and tempura, while Annie had duck soup!!! All of it was very good, except this weird looking potato-soba nasty tempura that we all didn’t eat!!! But we did eat a flower!!!

(Everyone)
(The flower Sarah ate!!!)
(Sarah Misses みんなさん)

We returned to Ishinomaki around 8-ish and had dinner with Matty. We (5 Gaijins) all were squished in front of a small table, in which we had Monjya-yaki and Okonomiyaki.

*Jiin – Monjya-yaki Chef *Sarah – Okonomiyaki Chef

After eating our wonderful dinner, Sarah dropped Jiin off at her apartment and then headed home. Sarah was going to go drinking with Matty and Alex, but driving all day left Sarah feeling kind of crappy plus having to wake up early wasn’t fun either.

Sunday:
Hung-out with Jiin in Wakuya!!! Just shooting rabbits and getting mad at stupid Mario for getting stars!!! Nothing toooo exciting happened except…Sarah ate a yummy HAMBUGA in Furukawa!!! Sarah loves Gusto’s Hamburgers!!! Yummy!!!

Monday:
Today was a holiday, so NO SCHOOL FOR US!!!! Sooooo…..
Woke up really late because Sarah went to bed around 4 a.m.!!! Lovin’ da internet!!! Got to Jiin’s at 3 p.m. then we drove to Ishinomaki to give Annie her inhalers!!! So, good thingie she didn’t have an attack because I had all her inhalers because she threw them in my purse when we were climbing to the Mountain Temple on Saturday!!! Also, we planned on carving pumpkins. Got there, returned her inhalers, and then went shopping for Pumpkins. Yes, it is early to carve pumpkins, but we are in Japan and we can do anything. We went to one store where Annie got her pumpkin last year, but there wasn’t any, so we went to this flower shop where Annie saw one. She bought tons of pumpkins and we carved them with da people!!!

(The pumpkin Sarah carved!!!)

Tuesday:
Sarah took Dai-kyuu, since Sarah hadn’t taken a day off for going to the Sport’s Day on a Saturday last month, so Sarah took off Tuesday because they were bugging Sarah to take a day off. Sarah couldn’t use it for Sarah’s Winter Vacation back home, so she took off Tuesday!!! T_T. Sarah really didn’t do anything this day except do laundry, went shopping, and had a sushi party with the B.O.E. Overall, it was really nice. Sarah enjoys her time spent at 11 p.m. to whenever the BEST!!! Just chilin’ out and being Sarah!!! ^_^

(Yummy Sushi!!! Just look @ IT!!!)

Sarah took pictures of Sarah’s thingies!!!!
Sarah is NOT sure what they are called, but Sarah likes them!!!



THE END!!! ^_^

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