Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Tokyo Tower Trip on August 20, 2012

I finally figured out how to post pictures and caption them!



Looking down through the skylight in Tokyo tower.  Makes me a little whoozy.

The pink 'umbrella-ed' physicist

Toyko Tower

A park next to Tokyo Tower (and in the middle of Tokyo)

Baskin Robbins in Tokyo!

Same park next to Tokyo Tower.  Japanese really know how to make beautiful parks

Happy happy child, with ice cream

Rabid child after ice cream

3D trick art museum in Tokyo Tower

There is an aweful lot of green space in the center of Tokyo

So far, my favorite souvenir from Tokyo, engraved with names of participants and date
Aquarium in Tokyo Tower...Who is watching Whom?

And upside down fish...and the other one of this species was also like this

Oh happy day, a splash pool at the aquarium

Jelly Fish in Tokyo Tower Aquarium

Just like the eels in The Little Mermaid, complete with white eyes


Wednesday, August 15, 2012

My apologies

2 months today since arrival.  Its been fast, slow, pain, blissful...well, not so much in the blissful category.

This will be a short and sweet post.  I am preparing to take my GRE's in Tokyo on September 18th and I am studying like a mad, crazy, insane woman.  The best I can do right now is feed my family, check in on Facebook with some photos of interesting things in Japan and study, study, study.

Just for a quick update, we are still waiting on E's visa.  And, ironically, we are still waiting for our alien registration cards which we need for a whole plethora of official documents (like opening a bank account for paychecks and paying Japan taxes!).  It seems I will have to give up one of my precious study days to go back to the dreaded Immigration Office.  You know, the one that is 3 trains and 2 hours each way?  And we both, Kurt and I, have to go.  So that means we have to bring E because school is still out.  Sigh.

But, when I return on September 19th...be prepared...there is never a shortage in things happening...even when I am putting everything else on hold.  I am taking notes....on paper, because I'll never remember anything else during my GRE prep time!

~Sayonara~