On Saturday we felt the itch to get out onto the open road, so we decided to make the journey to a small town nearby, Hirakawa, that has a famous house that's Japanese style on the first floor and European style on the second floor. As you can see in the picture, the house is pretty neat. It was built close to 100 years ago probably and is situated in a luscious Japanese-style garden, which is next to a big park/temple ground. On our way to leave, we even got free apples just for being different!! Talk about the advantages of being a foreigner!
Then, on Sunday, we were on the road bright and early at 5:30 to visit America!!! or the closest we can get to America here! We traveled 3 hours by car to go to the American Air Force Base in Misawa for the Misawa Base Air Show. Although we were mostly looking forward to all the American food we knew we'd be able to eat on the base, we were quite surprised to find we were literally blown away by many high-speed, crazy-loud fighter planes!!! Yes, these planes our upside down!!
Anyways, back to the important stuff, the food! There were cakes, turkey legs, steak, cupcakes, pulled pork sandwiches, pizza, chips, pop, and even Starbucks Frappucinos!!! We were also able to leave the area where the show was held to go to 2 of the fast food restaurants (Burger King & Popeyes) and a mini-supermarket! Of course we couldn't buy any food at the supermarket, but we enjoyed some Popeyes chicken for lunch!
After the show we went into Misawa City for some authentic Tex-Mex, which was absolutely AMAZING!!!!
And, today, Thursday, we had no school thanks to the start-of-fall!! Thanks Autumn Equinox! So, to celebrate the coming of fall, we decided to do something that we have dreamed about since our first month in Hirosaki, Japan- eat the "monster parfait" (the name is the literal translation from Japanese, obake parfait, which actually means ghost or monster.. we think monster is more fitting, don't you?!) With 9 of us, us plus 7 of our english club members, we dug right in....
but, if you look closely at the "after-shot" we have an extra addition to our party!!! We realized after about an hour of eating that we were not going to be able to demolish the parfait on our own. We had to call in the reinforcements, so Kevin decided to join us!!! Finally, after much team effort, stomachaches, and some close calls for vomiting, we completed the mission!!! As you can see in the picture, although it was an amazing parfait, we were not very happy leaving with bloated stomachs!
Although it seems like that would be enough excitement for one day, after sitting and watching a movie to let our stomachs settle, we decided we needed to burn some of the sugar out of our bodies, so we set off on another mission- to climb the dog in the dog-park! Mission success, even though Travis busted his knee cap! That's all.
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