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Stella is back from Japan, and she is jet-lagged like a mofo. Sometime soon, many photos will follow here, but for now, here's a brief recap of Stella's time over the past ten days:
1. landed, took train to dev's town, and went to dinner at sweet 15-seat restaurant -- saw a tanuki scurry across road
2. hiked to a temple on mountain famous for springtime cherry blossoms
3. had the world's best dumplings -- purchased in the freezer section of the chain grocery
4. met dev's colleagues for drinks in nara -- highlights include the belgian friend of one of the colleagues
5. went to kyoto and had hotel-finding adventure
6. visited silver pavillion in kyoto
7. broke up with dev
8. went to one of the three major festivals in kyoto
9. saw a performance in gion corner of geisha-ish stuff
10. saw the five-tiered pagoda in nara and museum at the empress's temple
11. stared in awe at the giant buddha
12. went through the opening day exhibit of national treasures at the nara national museum
13. got a lost sweater back three days after it went missing at a train station
14. toured dev's school
15. had dinner and too-too-many drinks with dev's local jet friends
16. hungover, got packed, dressed, and onto the train in record time to head to kansai airport
The weather was rocktastic, let me tell you. I left Thursday morning in Osaka at 70* and sunny. I landed in XXX at 40* and raining. Welcome home, indeed. New gardens are still being planted there; flowers are blooming there; rice is just being harvested there. Here? Not so much.
(If you're focused on item no. 7 up there, don't ignore the other 15. Dev and I didn't. But in lieu of flowers, you may send donations in dev's name to the temple of bad decisions fund.)
1. landed, took train to dev's town, and went to dinner at sweet 15-seat restaurant -- saw a tanuki scurry across road
2. hiked to a temple on mountain famous for springtime cherry blossoms
3. had the world's best dumplings -- purchased in the freezer section of the chain grocery
4. met dev's colleagues for drinks in nara -- highlights include the belgian friend of one of the colleagues
5. went to kyoto and had hotel-finding adventure
6. visited silver pavillion in kyoto
7. broke up with dev
8. went to one of the three major festivals in kyoto
9. saw a performance in gion corner of geisha-ish stuff
10. saw the five-tiered pagoda in nara and museum at the empress's temple
11. stared in awe at the giant buddha
12. went through the opening day exhibit of national treasures at the nara national museum
13. got a lost sweater back three days after it went missing at a train station
14. toured dev's school
15. had dinner and too-too-many drinks with dev's local jet friends
16. hungover, got packed, dressed, and onto the train in record time to head to kansai airport
The weather was rocktastic, let me tell you. I left Thursday morning in Osaka at 70* and sunny. I landed in XXX at 40* and raining. Welcome home, indeed. New gardens are still being planted there; flowers are blooming there; rice is just being harvested there. Here? Not so much.
(If you're focused on item no. 7 up there, don't ignore the other 15. Dev and I didn't. But in lieu of flowers, you may send donations in dev's name to the temple of bad decisions fund.)
posted by stella at 5:05 AM
3 Comments:
stelllllllla! steeeellllllla! my heart weeps for you. can't wait to hear the deets on this one. uh, where is that temple of bad decisions, actually?
no weeping necessary, really. and there aren't any real details -- nothing traumatic. two adults having a conversation about what our expectations are and accepting where they don't match up isn't all that exciting.
So... Is she available now?
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