Flowers and stuff

Today we went to the park to look at cherry blossoms.  It's a Japanese thing.  The pictures do a better job of explaining, so here they are!

All the dogs in Japan are wearing little outfits.  All of them.  If compelling evidence were provided to suggest that this is required by law, I would probably believe it.

This was our going-home-by-train group.  It was a rare moment of spaciousness on a Japanese train, so I decided to take a picture.

After that we went to my host family's barbecue!  Everyone is very impressed with me.  I was very impressed with everyone.  We had pizza right off the grill and then some kind of steak.  There were no mistakes in that last sentence.  None of the employees showed up, but that's okay because I had all the fun ever. ALL OF THE FUN.

This is just a Kaiji slot machine I found in a department store (I know, right?) because my best friend ever likes Kaiji.

I, uh, I ended up buying two more things at Book Off today.  On the left is a copy of Sister Princess for Playstation, and on the right is Malice Mizer's "Merveilles".  Both of these are things I needed to buy.  They are core elements of several of my favorite things, and thus I could not pass up the opportunity to get them at low, low prices.  The CD was not in the discount section and therefore I missed it yesterday, but I'm just not going to go back to Book Off for a while to avoid spending any more money.

I will have to take pictures of the night view from my room, because I really like it.  It's not scenic or anything, but it's not likely you'd ever find a parking lot and an electronics factory in back of a suburban American house.