Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada

::Andrea's Rambling Notes - once from Japan, now from Canada::

My notes and my memories: sometimes about a mom - sometimes about a wife - sometimes about a woman - sometimes about our life

::Author::

Name::Andrea
From::Small city/town, B.C., Canada
I am a short girl from the west cost of BC, Canada and I am a proud Canadian. I went to Japan in 2000 because my Dad told me I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't. He was right. I lived a good life found my husband from the other side of the world and have a beautiful daughter. Basically we lead a pretty normal life filled with normal ups and downs. We both come from different cultures: me Canadian, him Chinese. Living in Japan was a real eye opener about who I am and about the people I associate myself with. I lived and loved in Japan but the time to move on came upon us and in May of 2006 we left and moved to Canada: a huge move for us all. We are now trying to start up again, remodel our lives and create our future for our family. I now feel like a tourist in the country of my birth, my eyes see different and my life will be forever changed. This blog is my notes and observations of our life, our changes, our adventures and new beginnings. Welcome.
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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Playing with the camera!

I just got back from Kakegawa City and I had a BLAST!
Kim, JiXiang and I headed out there for lunch. No reason, just something different.
After a simple lunch wewent for a walk around the castle.
Kakegawa has done a beautiful job keeping the old feeling in the down town core. There are old buildings every where and TONS of photo ops.
Well I brought my little camera, of course, and we decided to start having fun playing with the different modes.
Ohhh I had so much fun!!
Sepia!!!
Black and White!!
Vivid!!!
A blast!!!
These are just some of the pics. I filled up an entire memory card. hehe
I will put them on the pictures page later. Gotta make myself dinner first. Li has abandoned me to play cards with his Chinese friends. grumble.

You can click on the pics to make them bigger.

This was one of the most AWSOME things. Wewent around the corner and there was an old recycle/antique shop. This mask was in the window for TEN bucks.
I bought it immediatly.
It is a tengu god (god of heaven and weather) It is a real one (not a cheapo paper one).