At least we didn't sleep outisde.

Sarah & her friend Maisie came to visit for a week & we went to Kyoto to rage. Or, spend way too much money on nothing... At the train station in Kyoto, we saw an Italian marching band. They were wearing sexy white tights & we stared at them, giggling. They were kinda hot...

We made out way to the outskirts of Kyoto to check out an open air market where we purchased Xmas gifts. This guy was making fish cookies filled with red bean paste. I don't like red bean paste. I like Mexican rice & beans, ok?










We ate lunch at an Italian place to honor our hot, tights-wearing marching band.

This is my friend. I forgot his name. We passed Nolan's phrase book back & forth in order to have a conversation. I asked him in Japanese if he would meet my parents. He laughed & told me he loved me. We almost got married, Japanese-style. (Just kidding, Jess.) The only serious thing I got out of the conversation is that Zima is very popular in Japan.
DISGUSTING!!!


This is a great example of the names of bars and/or clubs in Kyoto. Maybe new club? Seriously. The best part is we walked around the bar district for a while trying to find an oldman bar & would be like, "Ohh, Persian Cat sounds great," or, "Let's try Dracula's Dungeon," but the fact of the matter is that it doesn't matter which bar name sounds the best; they are all exactly the same.

Finally, after hitting up like 12,000 expensive bars, we went to karaoke, Japanese-style. This is my first time. We say Mariah Carey, Jesse's Girl, Madonna. This Friday we're doing karaoke again, only it's going to be a Journey-themed night.














This is prob the best picture ever taken of Nolan. He looks like he's having a hard time, no?These two actually have good voices, so they annoyed me. Brenda is too funny to live on a Japanese island all by herself.

After karaoke (at about 3am), we had no choice but to go to an all-night internet cafe to sleep because all the hostels were booked, being Thanksgiving weekend. It was better than sleeping outside, in a squatter, or an outhouse. And it was warm. We awoke at 6 am to get breakfast & drop Brenda off so she could take a bullet train home. We then explored the more historic part of town.
By historic, I meant expensive cars that we posed near.






















This is actually temple grounds (I forgot the name) that have been nominated for the Seven New Wonders of the World. I didn't take that many photos because it was too magnificent & the photos just looked like cheap metaphors you can buy at the 100 yen shop.

























































































This is kind of f-ed up. This is an abortion shrine type of thing. When a woman has an abortion, it's common for her to buy a doll & place it in one of these temples. Abortion seems to be a more common method of birth control than the pill or condoms in Japan

On the way home, we were all pretty burnt out. We got back to Nolan's & vegged out for the rest of the day. I fell asleep under the kotatsu, which was a lil weird.