I went down to the International Toy Show at Tokyo Big Site in Odaiba. Tokyo Big Site is a building located in Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan. It is pretty cool because this was a huge event that had a ton of stuff. This would be like a COMIC-CON, but for toys and held in Tokyo. There was a ton of toys and some of them were really cool.
When I was leaving the International Toy Show I snapped a few extra photos of the Fuji Television building, Aqua City, and some ships in Tokyo bay. Here are those photos.
Drove over to Yokosuka, Japan today. There is a Naval base over there. It is pretty neat to see. Here are some photos of that experience.
Drove over to Mount Fuji today. Here are some of the photos that were snapped along the way and different views from the volcano.
Went to Asakusa in Tokyo, Japan today. Here are some photos of the things I saw while I was there.
As I was at the Honolulu airport today I took a photo in the direction of Honolulu, Waikiki, and Diamond head. Here is what that view looks like.
Today I was walking down the street in Waikiki and I saw Mikey Tuttle from the t.v. show American Chopper. That was pretty cool, but unfortunately I didn’t get my camera out in time to take a photo. It was probably good that I didn’t take a photo anyway. I’m sure people like him get sick of everybody bothering them while they are on vacation. It was still pretty neat.
Today I went to Jimmy Buffett’s at the Beachcomber restaurant in Waikiki, Hawaii. I went there for lunch so there wasn’t a band playing or any drinking going on or anything, but it was a nice atmosphere and it had pretty good food. Here are a few of the photos I took.
I got roped into going on a business trip for training and they twisted my arm to fly to Hawaii where I stayed in the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Overall this was a nice hotel with nice services, however it was a bit pricy and it seems as though it is a trap. The hotel has everything that you want to prevent you from ever leaving. It is close enough to Waikiki to either walk or take the trolley. A nice stroll down the beach is always an nice venture. Here are some photos I took of my room, views from around the hotel, and even the views from the beach.
Today I went to Omiya, which is located in the Saitama Prefecture, in Japan. There seems to be a lot of bars, restaurants, snacks, and other forms of entertainment in this area. Here are some of the photos I took of this adventure.
Today I took a train for 1 hour to a little place called Tsutsujigaoka. This is in Tokyo, but it is probably a part of Tokyo that I would not normally go to. When I got there I was met by a nice German guy who works for a bank. We went to a coffee shop, even though I can’t stand coffee, and we filled out all the necessary paperwork and started talking a bit about security and what each of us does. It was really cool to meet a guy who has very similar interests and it is neat to see how the financial industry deals with security. We talked for about 10-15 minutes and then I ventured my way back home, taking another hour to get back. Unfortunately I did not take any photos on this trip.
Today I took the train for about an hour and stopped at Kawasaki to meet a Japanese guy who worked at IBM. We filled out the necessary forms right there in the train station and then I had to fight rush hour traffic for an hour to get back home. That was my first time to Kawasaki and it was neat to meet another person with the same interests, but our conversation did not get too deep because he didn’t speak English and my Japanese speaking abilities doesn’t really get into technical words. It was an experience and now I’ve only got 90 more points to go in order to become a notary myself. Along the train ride I passed a place Shitte, I can’t say that I would want to live in Shitte town. Below is a photo of that. The second photo is inside Kawasaki train station. As you can see, it was pretty busy.
This would be ‘all the catfish you can eat.’ Each year, a few people were drowning or disappearing mysteriously in Huadu, China’s Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently, when the son of a government official went swimming, in the reservoir and was drowned, that the secret was revealed. It is a 3 meter long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1 meter wide! After cutting up the catfish, people were surprised to find the remains of another man inside! Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden because it is feared another similar man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters.
