pimpin it out in nara

so me and joolia are living the ultimate good life here in nara! somehow we got mad hooked up by joolias aunt (sorry dont know where the apostrophe is on japanese keyboards)and were paying $50/nite to stay in the poshest hotel of all time! we even got two fantastic buffet meals at the hotel for free. we dont know what:s going on really but we wont question it cause its too awesome. anyway we dont have too much time at this internet place so i:ll make this speedy. were doing our laundry right now and we had just accidentally dried our dirty clothes first..but now its all in order. anyway, so here we go!

me and joolia absolutely delighted at the front gates of disneylandsea! it was the happiest day of our entire lives.


of course we are fans of retarded disney head gear.

the embodiment of our day at disneyland:

cherry blossom viewing while eating cherry blossom ice cream. yummmmm.

at the gibli museum in tokyo! joolia:s on the ball and got tickets months ago cause thats how intense people are about this joint. we love totoro forever! (i dont know if you all know what totoro is but its a japanese animation film that we both watched when we were kiddies. looooooooove totoro.)

the shibuya crossing. i think its supposed to be the biggest or busiest pedestrian crossing in the world or something and its like all traffic stops and people just walk zig zagging wherever.

joolia ordering dinner from a vending machine. more like were in a restaurant, but you pick what you want on the machine, put your money in and then it gets cooked and a waitress brings it to you. sure, why not!

our time in tokyo was pretty crazy, it was a lot of fun but we had to switch hostels three times cause thats how difficult it is to book a place to stay there especially during cherry blossom season apparently. our 1st nite was at the most awesome place, the 2nd was the biggest dump that we almost cried and our 3rd was super cute with a living room covered with tatami mats. and then we moved onto kyoto, where the hostel was also a bit of a dump but not hella depressing like the one in tokyo. plus we met a mish mash of english boys that were plenty of fun. and here we are eating!

from left to right its joolia, yoshi, alex and big ben. and in the middle is yummy okonomiyaki.


and its karaoke time! 2 nites in kyoto we spent at an all you can drink and karaoke till 6 am place and it was intense. we loooooove ben cause hes like 6foot4 but has the best giggle and would bust out some rap and sing r&b. but we all ended up belting it out and theres video footage but im not ready to share that with the world yet. i know ive got joolia doing the YMCA and me doing barbie girl. its god awful.


everything in japan looks like it was just made to be in a postcard or something. strolling thru a bamboo forest.

its been a complete cherry blossom bonanza over here. to sum up our time in japan so far with just 3 words, itd be: food, cherry blossoms

here we are at the top of monkey mountain! which is...a mountain swarming with fucking japanese monkeys! they:re actually kinda scary...


me and joolia at the golden temple which is actually covered with gooooooolllldddd.

inside the imperial palace.

i kinda dont remember where this is...outside one of the temples in kyoto anyway. but isnt it lovely?

nite time cherry blossom viewing at a castle.

we were fortunate enough to get to go behind the scenes at a once a year flower arrangement convention with joolias flower arrangement teacher. the arrangements were beautiful.

the convention was an awesome temple right beside a lake. and here we are at the main entrance.

ok and then now were in nara! were quite reluctant to even leave our hotel cause its so fucking pimp! and so last nite all we did was wash our underwear in our bathtub (yeah you read that right) and put on clay masks. were just soooooo sexy. i really cant understand why the hot japanese boys arent all over us like a fat kid on cake.

ok so from what i gather, nara is famous for being the ancient capital of japan...and for deer. there are deer all over the place! when we first saw a couple we freaked out but then we realized the place is absolutely overrun with them. they simply coexist with humans. we are like one with the deer.

ok and today we did the ultimate splurge: we rode on a human tuk tuk. ok so i have no idea what theyre actually called but ive been swooning over them and calling them human tuk tuks for days now so finally we got to ride one! it was only for 10 minutes but our human portion of the tuk tuk (i forget his name) was absolutely fantastic and made it the most magical 10 minutes of our lives. he:d make backing up noises, called us princesses and when taking a picture of us hed say `ok, 1, 2, 3, say JELLO!` i mean how can you not love that? or perhaps were just really easily amused (i think everyone that knows us well can say yes, thats exactly what it is)




and then finally today we just chilled out in a beautiful and serene japanese garden. it was wonderful.

eeeeeee! so ive run out of time now but i am crazy impressed with how fast the internet over here is! its amazing and im so glad to have posted so many pictures in such a short amount of time! well i hope youve all enjoyed cause me and joolia are having the time of our lives over here. and now its time to get our laundry and go back to our pimp ass hotel.