Deer and Flowers

More Miyajima. I'm trying to play catch up with my free time. This place was just too beautiful and the cherry blossoms made it even better. I really can't wait to go back!

Lots of good news!

The typhoon is past, and didn't do much of anything here in Hiroshima. It was further south of us than expected. The wind picked up a bit, but nothing dangerous or crazy or anything. I've seen WAY worse storms in Memphis, Tennessee. So, I'm glad that's over and done. Granted it is now typhoon season until the end of September and I'm sure there will be more try and pass through here. But they are unpredictable in their path, so who knows.

The other piece of good news, well for me anyway, is that one of my high schools (and another one in a week) will be on summer break for a month, so that means my work load will be cut in half for August! I'm going to have so much more free time. I'll basically just have night classes for three days out of my five day work week.

The good sales are coming to a close at the end of this weekend. There are two huge sales in Japan, usually a summer one and then one before Christmas. The bargains have been pretty great. I bought a new top and new dress. Most places have 10%-50% off. Yeah, it's still not as good as a US sale can get, but I'll take what I can get.

Because of the threat of the typhoon hitting around midnight here last night, I went straight home after work and we didn't have out usual Saturday outing, which kinda sucked. So I'm really itching to get out of here today and go out to eat or something. Markian is still asleep and it's after 11:00 AM. He must be tired. He's usually up before me. I think his kids class kicked his ass yesterday. The kids in that class has found out it's more fun to throw things and chase each other in circles than to play games to learn English. I sympathize. I have junior high school kids that have decided that they'd much rather throw things and run around and speak Japanese than try to speak English. All classes aren't like that. But the ones that are really kick your ass. It's quiet frustrating and tiring.

Alright, enough of the negative. No more of that for a while, so I'm super happy. It's like Christmas or something....

Oh and the picture is of Lucky Cat again. I think I took this picture in out day trip to Kure. Isn't he cute? He's beconning luck with his paw. I seriously miss Miw....

Trying to distract myself...

...from worrying about the typhoon possibilities. Here are the last of the pictures from Daisho-in Temple on Miyajima. I especially love the statues in knitted scarves and hats and the ramen noodle cup offerings at the shrine! Enjoy!

Typhoon

So if you haven't heard there is a typhoon headed for Japan. You can see exactly where it's at at http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/ I'm a little freaked out. We went and bought lots of bottled water tonight. I have to buy some dried and canned goods tomorrow. I'm hoping that is doesn't stay on this current projected path, cause otherwise I'm in trouble. I guess I'll find out in a couple days. Oh and a typhoon is basically a hurricane for those of you that weren't sure, like myself....

Statues at Daishon-in

Even more pics....The picture below is of a little shrine at the temple. I was amused that they'd brought cans of pineapple and oranges as offerings. I guess it was the fact that they were canned. You think they'd leave a can opener too.

Oh and I know there is a typo in the title; it's messed up and won't let me fix it though.

More Woodcarvings

More woodcarvings from Daisho-in Temple in Miyajima. I took so many freaking pictures on Miyajima, I still can't seem to get through them. Then there is the hundred pictures I took at the flower festival that I have yet to post. Anyway, I think the wood carvings are really beautiful, so that's why I'm posting all these. I love detailed things, and I especially love anything old.

Things I don't know about

If you're not sick of this place, I'm not, here is more pics of Daisho-in Temple on Miyajima. There are still more to come. The pictures at bottom were taken before the ones on top. The stair case at the top leads to more temple buildings, which I have yet to post. I have such a HUGE backlog of pictures. I just don't have the time to blog, like I wish I did. However, my high schools will be having a summer holiday in a couple weeks, which means, much more free time for me! I'm very excited!
I don't know what the deal is with the second picture down, the statue with the long nose. The bottom picture of the blue thing, I don't know what it is either, but it looks pretty cool. The color plus, the strangeness of it. The little wooden box in front of him is to give offerings (money). There is a sign in front of him probably explaining things, but it was all in Japanese and I couldn't read enough to make any sense of it. So in short, I don't know much of what you're looking at, other than I like to look at it. hehe