just a list of things and moments I want to remember…considering I’ve already forgotten lots of them… will be adding any that pop to mind (fingers crossed).
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- Qoo (pronounced “coo” like a dove), best juice drink ever.
\n - Morning set (preferably with Hotdog!)
\n - Green tea “milk” (latte)!
\n - incredible vending machine proliferation
\n - yes that gives you change for 100,000 yen ($100)
\n - Pocari Sweat!
\n - Calpis (swoon)
\n - “winning” the toy at the arcade (thanks to the arcade manager who apparently really really wanted me to win and moved the toy into an “impossible to lose” position)
\n - random shrine in the nishki market
\n - Japanese boy scouts spotting Americans: “Hi! Hi! Hello!” (my reply, of course: “Konnichiwa!!” which made them giggle like crazy)
\n - unbelievable proliferation of smoking. for a country obsessed with cleanliness…
\n - no glitzy postcards. plenty of other trinkets to buy, but…
\n - heated toilet seats
\n - noisemakers attached to toilet seats
\n - blue button = “for washing of the buttocks”
\n - pink button = “for Ladies only” (?!?!)
\n - the morning bowers\/greeters at BIC camera in Kyoto
\n - cartoon characters hanging from phones, bags, jacket pockets, pants pockets…
\n - ancient hunched over grandmas & grandpas totally kicking our asses on the steps (both up and down) at Fushimi Inari
\n - duck ramen in Tokyo at the place Christoph found a “shortcut” to (ha ha ha)
\n - the japanese restaurant meal we had in Kyoto where Jackie made our reservation and pre-ordered all our food
\n - hmmm, I wonder what this is. fish? tofu? root vegetable?
\n - that is one LARGE piece o’ tentacle.
\n - “green pea soup”
\n - the first ramen restau we went to in Higayashima.
\n - teddy bears on benches
\n - rachel shutting the taxi door and the uproar it caused
\n - japanese set at the Hearton in the morning
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