Onis and Japan

look who just stepped up in the blogging/app world?

i know, i know, so behind.  . . 

anyway, here's some more of the motherland.

so the red devilish guys are calls "onis"  

our nephew tell us (who is in preschool) that you can throw popcorn to scare the onis away.  in the city of norbetsu it's mascot is the onis.

pretty garden areas

my one and only oni

 

so they have this crazy aquarium, which includes this awesome shark head.

no, the kona wasn't in japan, but the husband was playing with the new app as well. 

and they don't have san pellgrino (?)

but they do have some awesome origami museums in the airports. 

 

my origami skills include about 5 animals and 1 house.  these guys made whole themes out of fairy tells.  hope you are having some fun summer travels as well!

photos from iphone using instagram & picframe

the husbands favorite thing about Japan. . .

was probably the signage with bad direct translations.

in case you couldn't figure out the squatters

 (which don't worry, we both conquered.)

what does the husband want to do on his trip to japan?

take pictures of bad translations.

i am safety driver...hard to read i know.

apparnetly, Japan has amazing "recycle" shops.  they have everything in these thrift stores.  so of course, the husband wanted to purchase shirts with funny sayings on them.  it's almost like there is no style in Japan...anything goes.

Himilk= lots more milk chocolate.

it was very delicious.

every business in Japan has a mascot.

apparently, this is a cat, a giant creepy one.

i wanted to buy this sake just for the bottle. 

so happy!

if you convert over the yen to the dollar... you find that these melons are around $80 for both. 

we had some of the melon...it wasn't that good.

for the finale.  . .
because makeup arrives, please do not bring a face close.

Found this in my bed.

There is a reason we called Hali "the Devil Child."

She was always playing pranks and doing weird things. 

 

 I mean...it is kind of creepy you know.

we will miss her while she is in Russia.

I don't think they know what they are getting into!