Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you are enjoying your holiday and stuffing yourself with all kinds of tasty treats (I'm really jealous that I can't cruise the dessert table at the Bosch house right now). I had a holiday today too ("Labor Thanksgiving Day"??) but just made a stir-fry at home. I don't think they have turkey over here, even if I wanted to eat it.

Last weekend, my friend, Greg, from Madison was in Tokyo to visit. He turned his layover during his flight home from China into a long weekend here and a trip to the Tokyo Cycle Show. It was great to see a familiar face, but I feel a little bad for him, as it rained all of Sunday (our sightseeing day), and he got lost taking the train back to the airport. The Tokyo Cycle Show was also interesting. They had a lot of the same stuff that I saw at Cycle Mode International, but there was also a booth that was giving away socks if you could beat 50 km/hr on a stationary bike (I could only get 49.6; my legs must be getting soft on me).


Here is a picture of Greg and I standing in front of the torii for the Meiji Jingu shrine in Harajuku. As you can tell by the umbrellas, it was still raining. :(

This is art/a statue that we found tucked away in the Harajuku neighborhood. I think it is the mascot for something, as it was next to a large, street-level billboard with the same character on it (Japanese print advertisements are not the best; they don't always make sense, and there are often just seemingly unrelated pictures with a logo).

And for those of you looking for a new salon/barber in the Harajuku area, why don't you try Bald? I hear they do a fantastic job! Another example of translations in need of checking.