Kobe Aquarium

First of all, my living experiences : blog ratio is seriously out of whack. I apologize to anyone who cares. I'm leaving Japan tomorrow and I'm just now posting something from a couple months ago. I'll keep updating this with the rest of my 2495 photos over the next few months until I've put them all up. In the meantime these are some pictures from when I went to an Aquarium in Kobe. Sorry some of them didn't turn out that great. Oh well.

Cute Japanese kid saying hi to the fish.

Eel cuddling.

And snake cuddling.

It's part snake part turtle. A success story for inter-racial couples!

That's an enormous spider, if you can't tell.

I think the frog's pregnant.

I couldn't really get a good shot of the penguins. We were rushing by so I only snapped one picture.

Okay, as a reward for reading my entire post you get a special treat! Yay!! It's a link to my YouTube channel. But be forewarned, the videos are all pretty terrible. It was just me on my little Sony doing the best we could. If I had movie editing skills I would have combined them into a single sweet video with background music and explosions but I don't know how to do that stuff so you're stuck with the raw footage. Sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/user/fuzzforpants?feature=mhee

Kobe Bridge

I forgot what the name of this bridge was, but apparently it's the biggest suspension bridge in Japan, and one of the biggest in the world (actually, I forget if that's true or not).

Part of the bridge was for sightseeing and you could walk along the bridge and they had a restaurant and lounge and gift shop in the bridge waaay up in the sky!

You could walk across this glass/log bridge and you felt like you were balancing a hundred feet in the air! Scary!

Cool boats!

I know it doesn't come through in the camera, but just trust me, this view is really scary and very thrilling!

Just so you know, whenever you see a group photo like this our host parents are all taking our pictures at the same time and so odds are that we're always looking at the wrong camera.

Here are some of those host parents! My mom is the second one from the left, Hitomi Sato.

Every once in a while I'll experiment with a panoramic shot which sometimes looks a little cool - if you're into warped, surreal art.