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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:42:27 MDT

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Extremely Awesome looking Roller Coaster

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:03:37 MDT

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Saw this out of the bathroom window of my hotel and proceeded to freak out about it, ha ha. Turns out the whole place is closed down (bankrupt) but they keep the facility open anyway. Val and I hunted it down and took a bunch of pictures cause it's JUST SO COOL!!

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:03:25 MDT

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:02:57 MDT

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Out of my hotel window

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Found it! :-)

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:01:36 MDT

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I'm gonna tell people we snuck in and took pictures, lol

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:01:26 MDT

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I WANT TO RIDE IT SOOOO BAD!

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:59 MDT

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My artistic side aka fun with color filter

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:54 MDT

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On our way to Osaka castle

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:48 MDT

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:43 MDT

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:38 MDT

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This isn't Osaka castle, although that's what Val and I initially thought when we saw it. We were like, "Is that it?" lol

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:32 MDT

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Train tour

THIS is Osaka Castle

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 06:00:19 MDT

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:59:54 MDT

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The Museum

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Unfortunately, we didn't go in. The line to admissions was about half a mile long, and Val and I wanted to get back to Nagoya before dark, so we passed.

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:59:07 MDT

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:58:46 MDT

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DORINK CORNER

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:58:41 MDT

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Ha ha. This is sort of hard to explain. Basically, in Japanese-English, the word "drink" is pronounced "dorinku" because in Japanese consonants have to be followed by a vowel. Whoever wrote this sign just spelled it out how it sounded. I almost didn't notice it, though, until Val pointed it out. (Meg, sorry, I just realized that you know all that already, lol)

Garden next to the castle

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:58:33 MDT

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:58:20 MDT

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Don't know these people, but they made a cute couple next to the pretty garden.

Osaka

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:41:17 MDT

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These pictures are from the top of Tenpozan Harbor Ferris Wheel. It's 112.5 meters tall and used to be the tallest in the world, before the London Eye came along.

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:41:09 MDT

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Kaiyukan

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Osaka's aquarium, which we visited later :-)

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zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:40:24 MDT

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Sorry all these pictures are so blurry--the lighting was really bad, and using the flash just gave me pictures of the tank walls, lol.

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It's a dolphin. I think.

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These fish were just floating there like that, not moving at all. They reminded me of the "swim down" fish from Finding Nemo :-)

Whale Shark

zuruzurux2 — Tue, 6 May 2008 05:36:27 MDT

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The aquarium's most famous attraction, and it swam right by me. Too bad about the blurriness :-(

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Creepy sideways fish!

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Giant Crab of Satan

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The Colonel got tired of being a Colonel...

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...and became a Samurai.

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Kyoto Tower

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The Botanical Gardens

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For mom :-)

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