say no to nukes! greetings from hiroshima

so now were in hiroshima but we are leaving tomorrow for our final destination, fukuoka. i was going on today about how we just dont have enough time to blog about everything we wanna blog about, and then we forget shit. so even though im damn tired and lazy right now, im gonna write something, just for the hell of it. umm so last we left off....we were in kobe! we had a great day just chilling out but when we arrived at our hostel, we almost started weeping cause it was in the middle of some fucking industrial zone and the hostel was on top of a mechanics shop. but alas, looks can be deceiving cause the inside was great and we spent the nite watching dvds. oh wait! a highlight of our time in kobe: we rode these ridiculous furry mechanical animals, i rode a panda and joolia had a giraffe or something. they went stupid slow and we just laughed our asses off the entire time. its hard to explain withougthe next day we dragged out a poor boy by the name of jon from england, whom we decided looks like harry potter when he laughs (this may or may not have been influenced by the fact we watched harry potter the nite before), out to himeji which is home to what they say is the grandest castle in all of japan. its go grand or go home for us, ya know! were just like `pshaw, why see any other castles in japan, when were going to see the BIGGEST AND GRANDEST CASTLE IN ALL OF JAPAN!?` and so thats how it went down. we had a great time at the castle, i think its supposed to be the only one in the country thats not all renovated and shit. i:ll post pictures soon...i just cant be asked right now. and from there, we took the good ol bullet train to hiroshima!

and so here we are now. last nite was a little pathetic cause for some reason every single person in our dorm decided to go to bed like at 10pm or some shit and we had no lights in the room. so i ended up reading in my bed with some dude:s flashlight for a while, it was a little bit tragic. but today was good, we coudlnt drag our asses out of bed for a good long while but when we finally did, we took a little ferry over to the island of miyajima where theyre famous for having some gate out in the ocean. its one of japans top scenic sites or something. (it was good, but not THAT good.) you can apparently cover the island in like an hour, but knowing us, we took more like three. there was eating involved of course. also everytime were near the ocean we get all pumped and sentimental about vancouver. basically anything that reminds us of vancouver, we linger around and rave about it.

ok and before i go on, for anyone who isnt exactly sure, hiroshima:s the city that had the first ever nuclear bomb dropped on it by the americans during wwii. im just putting it out there in case anyone didnt know and didnt wanna feel like a complete tool by having to admit it! not that you should feel like a tool for not knowing...anyways, moving on.　and then for the depressing part of the day, we went to the a-bomb dome, the war memorial peace park (ok, im not sure what its called but it might as well be called that) and the museum dedicated to the nuclear bombing and its victims (ahem, again...not exactly sure what its called. ok i just pulled out my little pamphlet, its called the hiroshima peace memorial museum). it wasnt particularly fun, but like the killing fields, its just something you gotta do. there were quite a few japanese seniors there that we thought might have a heart attack over it all, but everything was fine.　there were bits that were a little sick, like bits of dead peoples finger nails and hair, totally uncalled for!

and then to brighten us back up, we went into one of japans many open air shopping arcades and then had a yummy italian meal. me and joolia do nothing but romantic date type things you know. and yes i know i mention food more than any one person should. and now im trying to think of what else ive missed..... fuck i dont know. i do know weve covered lots of ground here in japan! weve been to tokyo, kyoto, nara, osaka, kobe, himeji, hiroshima and tomorrow fukuoka. thats a shitload of places in 2.5 weeks i think we actually dont even have enough time to go to one small town i wanted to go to thats famous for having 10x more carp than people. why i wanted to go there, its hard to say. anyway our time managements a little off but weve been having a great time so no complaints.

i swear i had shitloads of stuff i wanted to write about but now my minds just drawing blanks. but i have noticed that i managed to ramble on here for quite a long while so apparently im very gifted at writing about nothing. i know im missing tons of stuff cause weve been living it up hardcore but...nope its just not coming to me. did i mention we went to a temple that had like a thousand bronze buddhas all lined up in it? i think that was in kyoto. we also went to the world:s largest wooden building and that was in nara. oh god my brains just not working (i swear, ever since i graduated...) what yall should do is go read joolia:s blog instead. its under the links section. im sure hers is much more comprehensive and not as retarded as mine cause i know that when i was off writing about deer in nara, she was talking about the giant buddha. apparently we have different priorities. ok so now my brain feels strained cause im all irritated at myself for not remembering what weve been up to, so i think i:ll go soothe myself with some gossip blogs.