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Back to Oirase for some real fall color
... with the oil paints & canvas.
The best all colors I've seen in Japan were in Hirosaki on my last trip. The red maple trees in the city park there were phenomenal!
......now it's officially that in between season where it is too cold for summer activities, but not cold enough for winter activities. ......guess i's time to clean house now :o)
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Fall Colors.......sort of
... the signs of fall in Japan - farmers harvesting rice and in many cases manually arranging the stalks to dry. Northern Japan is still a very rural agricultural area where many farmers still do much of their work by hand. It is amazing seeing a half-dozen people, often women, out working in a field planting or harvesting something by hand.
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All-U-Can-Eat .....after you cook it!
... food on, a paper bowel to place your cooked food in, a pair of chopsticks and a napkin. Next you make your way to one of the many small grills where you get to cook your food. There is a group of young men with bright green shirts on who make their way around the BBQ area refilling your grill with charcoal (not like American charcoal - they bring you pieces of blacked/burned wood). Your initial serving of ...
Ninohe
... dragons (see video). After the parade we drove further up north and stopped at a store where Vince prided himself on his new finding of a $5 jean jacket. It was a successful, busy first day in northern (Iwate) Japan. (Iwate would be comparable to a state or province in the US; so Ninohe, Iwate Japan would be like saying Steamboat Springs, Colorado USA)
The next day we drove further north to see some exotic caves which proved to be a great escape from ...
Air Fest 2012 - Misawa Air Base
... then the weight of the bottom allows it to naturally stretch.
After four hours of marketing the ring toss game - no language skills so we use Show & Tell, it was time to move over to my Squadron Booster Club booth where we were selling cakes.
Believe it or not, the Japanese will pay 500 Yen ( about $6.50) for ...