Hanami In Japan, take 2

osaka castle marked my first visit to the cherry blossoms. so so pretty

Sketches of Japan: Part 2

ok, explanation for this drawing... Lino and I were talking about manga & anime style drawings and I wanted to see if my days of drawing Dragon Ball Z & Sailor Moon had a lasting impression. He wanted to see boobs... so there!

Hanami In Japan, take 1

they don't mess around. they're up laying down the tarps way early in the morn

(shinjuku gyoen national garden, tokyo)

eyyyy!! i found my posse!! they're about 30-40 years older but hey! artists are kids at heart forever :)

Setting suns & kiddie fun

I love that people, foreign & Japanese, come together to party all day & night because flowers are in bloom. It's a celebration of nature changing. The cherry blossom blooming really does warrant it... it's so beautiful. I can't wait to see Japan in the fall.
that's totally me happy as ever double fisting mochi
kid in the back was JUST picking his nose. EW. haha

love the kid's drawings of cherry blossoms. looking back, i should have thrown one of mine in the mix. next time :)

(yoyogi park, tokyo & murayama park, kyoto)

Okonomiyaki, the best sushi EVER & other food adventures

Breakfast & cherry blossoms. Family Mart quickly became my favorite one stop shop for my snack & stationary needs.

Tsukiji Market!

One of the largest fish markets in the world. The fish auction was fun to see, but the sushi breakfast at 630am... hands down the most delicious one I've ever had. I never knew eel & tuna could melt. Best 26 dollars spent.

Lip, intestines, cheek, etc. yeah, not really a vegetarian anymore.

Mmmm takoyaki! My first meal of my trip. I didn't know they could melt into delicious gooeyness like that. 3 bucks, baby!

Now this next one was an adventure. Masa, our ridiculous hostel manager in Osaka, suggested fugetsu for okonomiyaki. I tried to find it the last time but couldn't & settled with the takoyaki instead (above). To avoid a second fail, he wrote this letter:

(you get a prize if you can translate it)

and said I could just show the letter to anyone and they'll help. He also told me to sign it, which I thought was strange & then I saw he wanted me to write my name after the word, "America". Hahahahahaha. Please! Someone tell me what it says! Anyway, so Lino & I wander & can't find it. I approach a couple & hand them the letter. We basically follow them for a good 10 minutes in & out of the subway and underground passageways, all the while Lino & I completely confused about what the letter says. Haha, I hope they didn't have any place to get to! I wonder how we changed their night by being lost... Anyway, they show us where it is and thank god too because we probably wouldn't have found it on our own. And the meal? It went a lil something like this... HIT IT!

YUM!!!

Japan!

just a few pics for now. i just got in & i'm pooped from all the traveling and not sleeping. tomorrow i promise to have it posted forrealz.