What Happened?

Hello again all!

I know it has been a while, almost a full month without a post.

A lot has happened this month. Aside from exams and the average quiz and research , I have been doing a lot of little things that I did not expect.

This past weekend I went to Kyoto for a full day excursion and temple viewing. It was a lot of fun and by far a very worth while hike... A 6 hour hike that took us up mountains and down valleys on what I can only describe as being a 2 foot wide path with a mountain on the one side and a very painful fall on the other side. A fall that would had sent me down hitting every tree like a pinball.

That didn't happen of course, but it sure would had made some interesting material to post, huh?

Anyways, a lot of the pictures I took are of trees. Autumn in Japan is very beautiful. Trees of every color and shape.

The temples that we went too were packed with people too. A lot of them where doing what I was doing... Taking pictures of the trees. I took over 100 pictures, so I obviously won't be putting any up. I will only be putting the pictures that I think are worth while.

That being said...

Haha, nothing more worth while than this handsome devil, huh?

During a time period in Japan, Buddhist and Shinto religions shared the same temples and shrines. They literally lived right next to each other and very often the two would mix, Shinto priest participating in Buddhist rituals and Buddhist monks participating in Shinto rituals. It was all very interesting and the end result was a mixture of religions. For example, this shrine which honors the kitsune (fox).

So anyways, like I said before, this trip involved a lot of hiking. I kid you not, the day after I was not able to walk. I literally crawled out of bed.

For today though, I think this will be enough. I will try and be better about posting more often but I make no promises.

Next post I will try and post pictures of the hiking part.

Until then folks, keep on reading.