Mitch picked this up at the grocery store for us to use. I am not sure if he was hoping for a happy heart or a clean smelling family. You'll have to ask him.
And sometimes it is just the spelling that gets mixed up which therefore leaves you wondering who is in charge of marketing...
Not too sure I would be excited to try some 'Bland' coffee, but a nice 'Brand' of coffee would be good (we found this while waiting for the return train in Tatsuno, RJ and I had some yummy hot chocolate from this machine)
I am thinking that a 'cut salon' is suppose to be 'hair salon' (we saw this when we were in Tatsuno for the Jazz festival).
This is a wrapper from a milk vitamin. I only know that because some one gave it to me and told me so. I guess the cow gives it away that it has some milk in it. It was actually quite tasty.
This is a shrine near our home. The red things are actually baby bibs. From what I can gather, the bibs are placed there because this is where you pray if you have a miscarriage or if your baby dies. I didn't notice the red bibs until it was getting colder so I thought people put them on the Buddha statues to keep him warm. I was sad when I found out what they were really for.
This is a women's only gym (similar to Curves). There is a Curves here in Himeji over by RJ's school, but this is on my way to work. I just thought it was interesting that they do have gyms here in Japan even though so many people bike or walk to work. And no I haven't join one yet, they are very expensive.
This is something you can see everywhere in Himeji (and Japan). Remember those ditches I showed you along the side of the roads. Well, some of them have covers and that is what these are. The weird thing is, some of them are loose so when you walk on them, they move. Kind of freaks you out the first couple of times it happens.
This is our neighbor Taube. She had the fortunate adventure of getting dressed up in a Kimono. RJ and Sara wanted their picture taken with her, so her you go.
And the last picture of this month's 12 on 12 is of some of the leaves we collected up on Mt. Shosha during the autumn days. RJ sent them to my brother Tommy because I told him how when we were in college Uncle Tommy sent me leaves from Flagstaff all the way to Tucson so he wanted to send some to him.
I hope everyone has a great January.
1 comment:
The bland coffee sign cracks me up!
See Merry, you're mom must have known you were going to Japan some day and that's why she named you Merry...:)
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