Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Photo of us in Shinjuku

Here's a portrait of Jer and me in Shinjuku:

Photo editing is slow going. I've only done 3 for the store so far and I haven't uploaded them yet. Need to get my act together because I only have a week until my next (and last show).

I think after the show I can finally relax. Oh and my birthday is in a few days. Last year I forced Jer to go to a sushi restaurant and on the way home from dinner he proposed, so it was pretty memorable. This year we went to Japan and I ate sushi in a fish market.

What a strange and eventful year.

5 comments:

George said...

I forced Jer to go to a sushi restaurant and on the way home from dinner he proposed

I've heard about weird reactions to raw fish but this one takes the cake. (Hope that wasn't mixing my food metaphors too badly--after all, there are fish cakes.)

Folly Blaine said...

He said later he did it just for the hal-i-but.

hahahahaha

Maya said...

I'm just getting caught up on your blog, so this is probably a belated Happy Birthday! Sounds like you had a great trip. Is it hard to get around without knowing the language? Or, did you know some?

Folly Blaine said...

Thanks, maya!

Navigating wasn't too bad. Almost everywhere I went had either a sign in English or a map of the area. I learned to say "thank you," "sorry," "how much is it?" and the basic question words -- and I got very good at pointing and holding up some number of fingers if I wanted to buy food. I would like to learn more words, though...

I also found a Web site that helped navigate the train schedules and transfers and did lots of research ahead of time, so that helped too. The only time I got lost I used one of my street maps to sort it out.

Folly Blaine said...

Thanks, maya!

Navigating wasn't too bad. Almost everywhere I went had either a sign in English or a map of the area. I learned to say "thank you," "sorry," "how much is it?" and the basic question words -- and I got very good at pointing and holding up some number of fingers if I wanted to buy food. I would like to learn more words, though...

I also found a Web site that helped navigate the train schedules and transfers and did lots of research ahead of time, so that helped too. The only time I got lost I used one of my street maps to sort it out.