A Different Day, A Different Moustache

While Nolan went to work, Brenda & I decided to shock the Japanese by wearing moustaches on the train to Nara. Yes, Brenda is drinking a juice-box of sake.






























We are excellent at making friends. When we got off the train, we looked for a place to eat lunch, but everything had gross fish broth, so we wandered into this trashy-looking restaurant owned by a Chinese-Japanese guy who spoke English pretty well. I told him I am a bijetarian & he told me he couldn't promise the taste, but he would make me something special. It was SO good. He's a great man.


This is the beginning of cultural Nara. We had to walk through the amazing crap-shop district to get here, & some crazy Japanese photographer saw me dancing by this pond & called us over. He made us sit down & take a picture with this old Japanese bald man, whom he called a skinhead. It was kind of awesome.



















You can see the top of a five-tiered pagoda in the distance, which is totally bizarre. These pictures, btw, don't do justice to anything I've seen so far. Even the moustache pics are blurry.






Here's an example of a crap-shop:















This guy was making traditional Japanese desserts. I think they're made of rice. The machine kind of pooped out the pastries.


So in Nara, deer are considered sacred & they roam around. You can buy these deer cookies for 150 yen, but once the deer see that you have purchased this, they f-ing stampede over to you & head butt you until you show them the cookies are gone. Some of the deer had weird scabs on their heads & this one had a terrible limp. This other old guy followed Brenda & me around hissing at us. I was a little scared.




































This deer was pretty tame. Brenda took an amazing video of when the deer attacked me.

















This guy is a Shinto priest. Look at him pretending to be Laura Ingles Wilder. Here I am looking all Laura Ingles Wilder. That priest was just copying me.








Brenda running away backwards as she gives a cookie to the deer. If you ever go to Nara & feed the deer, DO NOT wear a skirt because they will stick their heads up it if you don't give them food.








This is the five tiered pagoda on the Todaiji Temple grounds. I was wrong about the other temple housing a shard of the Buddha's bone; it's actually this pagoda. It's only open once a year for viewing.


















This is Todaiji Temple, the largest wooden structure in the world. It's magnificent. Also, it does not translate as a photograph.

This Buddha is amazing, it's the largest bronze sculpture in the world, bigger than the house I grew up in, I swear. Also does not translate as a photograph. The architecture is amazing
































This is the interior architecture of the Todaiji Temple. Incredible.











Little Red Riding Hood Buddha.






On our way home, we picked up some biiru for the train & fixed ourselves some new moustaches. I had to pee the whole time & the train took forever because there was an accident/suicide. It took us all in all 3 hours to get home. I held my pee the whole time & considered being the gaijin that peed on the train.