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Okinawa!

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Emily and I are on holiday in Okinawa!  We flew here on Monday via Tokyo and were picked up by Emily’s sister at the airport.  We have spent 3 nights in Naha, the main city, and had a chance to do a bit of sight seeing and spend some time with Seika (the sister in question) who is living and studying here.

Okinawa - Naha pics

Okinawa - Naha pictures

Tomorrow we get on a ferry and go to a small island (Zamami Island) for almost a week to relax and enjoy the quiet!Here are some pictures from our trip so far, who knows if there will be any from Zamami, or what the internet situation will be where we are staying!

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Wedding Pictures – at last!

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Finally we have got our wedding pictures online for you to see!

Check out orumu.org/wedding for the whole slideshow deal!

The wedding and tea party were great, we had a great time in Northern Ireland with a celebration at my home church (photos snitched from Jonny & First Antrim!) and a sneaky honeymoon at the always beautiful north coast!  Some pictures have found their way online of that too.

Thanks to everyone who could celebrate with us, and to those who sent greetings but couldn’t be there.  And to those who didn’t do anything but were thinking about us!  We are settling into life in Oasa, but it’s pretty busy, so I don’t know how often I can update, not that I was updating that often!  But keep an eye on twitter and facebook for shorter bites!
The picasa albums are here:

1. 結婚式 – Wedding 2. レセプション – Reception
3. ジョンの母教会 – First Antrim Celebration 4. 北アイルランドの新婚旅行 – Honeymoon in Northern Ireland

Sapporo…

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Last Wednesday I was privileged enough to be invite to climb to the 38th floor of JR Tower by my friend JP (The dancing one, not the snowboarding one!) JR Tower is one of the tallest buildings in the city, if not the tallest…

From the top floor you can see pretty much all the city, from the mountains in the west to the fields to the east… So what better place to have a go at making some panorama pictures?! I was quite lazy though and didn’t maintain position well enough to take good pictures for stitching really, but here are four rough panoramas of Sapporo from the top of the JR Tower! The pictures are pretty large, so once you’ve clicked through to the album, you can click to zoom in for a closer look…

Sapporo panorama from JR Tower

If you live in the city see if you can spot your area (For the Higashi-ku folk, you can see the Tsudo-mu community dome in the north picture…

Then on Saturday I went with Emily to Shinrinkouen in Nopporo, Ebetsu, or Nopporo Forest Park and climbed to the measly 8th floor of the Hokkaido Centenary Memorial Tower to find out of use elevators. But the view from the 8th floor was still quite nice, particularly as there isn’t anything to get in the way… And of course the tower looking like the tower of Barad-dûr of Mordor in Lord of the Rings was a bonus!
So I took a more simple series of pictures and made another panorama! The glass was pretty dirty (lots of insects on it, ladybirds and stinkbugs) but here is the result!

From Shinrinkoen

Maruyama Zoo!

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It has been golden week here in Japan.  Golden week is a rare opportunity arising from a bunch of public holidays falling together.  Depending on where you look definitions include the 29th of April (Showa Day) along with the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May (Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day and Childrens’ Day).  As such we had a week off JLC and the nation deserted work and took to the roads (well… most of it!).  The roads and parks are chock full of people as they try to make the most of this opportunity to get away from home…  I am not sure if everyone sees it as a challenge to see how far they can get away from home before U-turning and heading back again in time for work on Thursday…  But sometimes it seems that way!

Not to be left out I also took to the roads and headed for Maruyama zoo with Emiri.  I like zoos quite a bit, sometimes they are a bit depressing with small cages and so on and so forth, but I like to take photos of animals and it’s rare that I might get to take a picture of a lion or giraffe outside of a zoo situation really…  This particular zoo is the smaller of the two zoos I have heard of in Hokkaido, the other one is further away and more expensive, so we opted for this one.  It falls into that category of being a bit unpleasant if you stop to think too much about the animals in their little enclosures without too many other animals about…  but I didn’t stop and think too much!

Maruyama Zoo

Some photos of animals (and some humans got in there too)