Today I went for a walk.

Today was looking to end up uneventful after school finished, so I decided to go for a walk.  Here are pictures from my walk.

These trees are everywhere in people's yards, and I think that's great.  In America, it's rare to be able to eat something off a tree in your own yard, especially something this substantial.

Here are Rilakkuma, Korilakkuma, and a bird I don't know (Hello, new friend) enjoying food.  This is actually an ad for Mother's Day gifts at this bakery, but I forgot exactly what kind of gifts.  I just know it was food (probably cake).

This is what Uniqlo looks like in Japan.  It does not look nearly as high-end as it does in New York, but that's just the outside.  Inside it's essentially the same store.  I'm not saying Uniqlo is the pinnacle of fancy rich people clothes or anything, but you can get some very good quality things there for a store that's usually set up in the same places as an Old Navy.  Japan is full of stores that don't belong in the middle of a housing block or a rice field, because inside the stores everything is expensive, high-quality, or both.  The other day we went to a jewelry store in the middle of a parking lot and it was like stepping into a Macy's designed by French aristocracy.

In Japan, the sidewalk continues even if the road has to go under something, which is kind of nice.  It made it much easier to get to the used CD/book store I found today.

If there's one thing I didn't think I'd ever find in a Japanese discount store, it's an American rap compilation from 1995 featuring Shaquille O'Neal.  You have no idea how hard I laughed when I pulled this out of the その他 (miscellaneous) section.

I mostly took this picture for Colin, because he likes Smap.  Anyway, Smap is a teen idol group from the 1990's that got old without disbanding.  Well, not "old", but much older than this kind of group usually is.  Anyway, they made a cookbook for no reason other than that they are Smap.

I ended up buying nothing, mostly because my wallet was devoid of adequate finances. I felt a little sick on the walk back home after breathing in dust from so many old CDs and manga (I was there for three hours), so I stopped at 7-11 for a can of coffee.  I bought the one with the free AKB48 refrigerator magnet, because even if I don't care about AKB48, why would I buy a similarly-priced can of coffee without a pretty girl on it when I can have this one?

I cut through the park because I felt like it, and also because the Light Bringer song I was listening to on my mp3 player wasn't over yet.  Here is the park.

Here are ducks at the park.  If you can't tell by the foremost duck's feathers, today was both obscenely cold and obnoxiously rainy.  Tomorrow's forecast calls for warm temperatures and clear skies, so I may take another walk or something.  I feel like it'd be a waste to spend a day in Japan not doing anything.