More of January 2011

Yes, It's now May and I'm still adding stuff from January!! When have I ever not been a procrastinator?!? :)

Here's our buddy 'the lizard' who decided to live in our fire light thingy outside of our apartment haha.

We also visited a few castles during the month of January...good thing to do when the weather isn't too hot!

The first castle we visited was the Shuri Castle. We went with a few of our friends from the hospital and our friend Hanashiro-san gave us a great walking tour of the area! She's amazing and introduces us to some great new places... and she brings her cute kids along too...which is always fun!

 It was raining to start...but this bird was so cool looking :)

 Entrance to Shuri

 The steps are slanted downwards on purpose! 

It was designed this way to carry the royalty up the stairs!

Under construction

 Underground hideout from wartime

Kirsten & I

Food time!!! Yummo!

Seating area

Oki friends! Hanashiro-san, Kirsten, Luke and Temi :)

For my bro :) And Shi shi puts out fire?!? Cool sign at the fire station!

We parked here...you pay for parking in a vending machine that also has drinks! lol 

Random items:

Things you shouldn't do in an elevator!

 Something to do with the post office. 

 Mail slot?

Sweet double decker parking spots!

Castle #2: Nakijin castle.
You can park just about anywhere! haha

 Kirsten

 Cherry Blossoms! 

So the above two pics are real (mine), but the day was cold and gloomy, and when we came across these pictures on the wall of the 'museum area of the castle', we took pictures of the pictures b/c we figured that was what it would look like on a good day haha :) Not too shabby!

Cool flower we found later that day.