Tadaima!

I'm finally home! Vacation was great, but it's nice to be back home again!

We didn't get to see everything we wanted to in Kyushuu, but I don't know if want to go there again since the plane ride was 9 HOURS LONG! That plane ride was just a liiiiiitle too long (just a little, my poor butt! ^^;). Anyways, I finally got to see the Peace Park in Nagasaki & the Atomic Bomb Museum in Hiroshima. It was touching and depressing at the same time. Seeing the ruins of the buildings, the pictures, the artifacts, it really made me realize how awful the atomic bomb was. I can't even begin to imagine the pain and the suffering all those people went through. It made me think that sometimes progress isn't necessary especially when it comes to war.

I did enjoy looking for all the comic book stores. There's this chain of comic book stores called Animate that has stores all over Japan. My sister and I always try to find as many as we can wherever we are since it gives us a good excuse to get lost! We end up going to places where tourists usually don't go and get to see interesting things and find other interesting stores along the way.

I normally buy a lot of comics (which I did again this time!) since I have to buy my G-Defend comics in Japan. I don't know why, but the publishing company won't sell their comics overseas and they don't sell their comics on Amazon.co.jp so I have to go to Japan to buy them. I also buy quite a bit of dojinshi comics. This time I bought a few Kamen Rider and Sentai dojinshi comics as well as a bunch of V^ ones. Pretty hilarious! I found about five new comic titles that I'm enjoying which are "Reijyuki", "Holyland" (this is the manga that Ishigaki Yuma's new drama is based on), Kami To Sengoku Seitokai", "Yamigami Kou", and "Onmyou Taiseiki". Boy, did I buy A LOT of manga (yabai ^^;)! I normally buy a few CD's & DVD's and end up buying tons of video games, but this year was the opposite. I spent some big bucks on a bunch of DVD's and CD's and bought only 1 video game. I'm starting to get into Orange Range's music so I bought quite a few of their CD's as well as a couple of W-inds cd's, Dragon Ash's new single & a couple of Tokusatsu theme songs that I'd been looking for.

As far as DVD's go I found the Kat-Tun & Johnny's World DVD's the Bonita had recommended as well as my Kamen Rider DVD's and a couple of "Odoru Daisossen" DVD's. I was looking for "Quiz" disc 6, but NOBODY had it! I'm sooooooo frustrated!

I also made a pig of myself! Hiroshima okonomiyaki is OISHIIIIIIII!!!!!! We ate it both nights we were there! Deeeeelicious! I would go back again just to eat okonomiyaki again, but I have to go back again anyway since I didn't get to go to Miyajima Island yet! XD We also ate a lot of musubi, ramen & crepes (banana chocolate with whipped cream, yum!). I also ate this nasubi donburi from a food market in Fukuoka. That was really good! It's a good thing we walked around a lot or else they would've had to roll me off the plane!

Phew, guess I'll end it here, still got some unpacking and cleaning up to do! Ja, mata yoroshiku ne!!! ^_^