On June 16th, my roommate Lisa and I were picked up by our lovely friend Fumie!! We were going to spend the day together as Lisa was heading back to Australia soon. We started off the day with some coffee and waiting at the apartment for Lisa’s luggage to get picked up by the airport delivery service. Fumie and I made a trip to the local recycling center to drop off a few bags of junk before we vacated the apartment for good.
After Lisa’s bags were picked up we loaded my junk into Fumie’s car and drove to Nagoya city. My ex-roommate Kerry was kind enough to offer to let me crash at her place for my last bit of time in Japan and Fumie was kind enough to help us lug my stuff there. After that was taken care of, we went to lunch at”Bikkuri Donki” which translates as “Surprise Donkey”. But the biggest surprise was that there was no donkey on the menu…
We then went on a lovely drive past Toyota City towards Asuke/Koranke arriving at Toyota Gorge. It was really nice to see that there was such an abundance of nature right outside of the rather industrialized Toyota city area.
After we hiked around for a while and took in all the clean air we jumped back in Fumie’s car and she drove us to a lovely botanical garden somewhere near Sanage. I have no idea where we really were or what the name of the garden was, but it was really nice!! I got to take pictures of lots of flowers (my favorite) and we saw a neato bug!!!!!
So we had an absolutely lovely day filled with nature, interesting bugs, and great friends!!! I finally remembered at an opportune moment that my camera can take video and took a video of the weirdo bug – you can click here (� Kami Mushi Video ) to download it and watch it on your computer.
Amazing photographs