Steamed Oysters in Japan.

On Sunday we headed over to Bachan's and Sandy, Cindi and I went with her and Kiko and Daijiro to Itoshima.

There we all gathered around a cozy BBQ grill and steamed a bunch of oysters/kaki.

Haven't had oysters right out of the shell in years.

Good, but really ate too much.


Then we just did some sightseeing and walking about.

Nice day, nice weather, nice folks.

Kiko goofing around, running from the "tidal wave."

Afterwards we went over to the Sakurai Shrine and did the traditional New's Year Week stuff.


Cool architecture.




Funniest thing, the lamp panel in Daijiro's car popped out and wouldn't pop back in.

So we raided Sandy's purse, which had a plethora of band-aids and stickers, with which Kiko tried to seal it back up.

Didn't work though, so she was reduced to keeping it propped up with an umbrella the whole ride home.

In Takeshi's words - "That's a Nissan for you." [In Japanese, of course.]

Random pics I took that I thought were cool.

They start the fishermen off young in Japan. This kid was pretty damn adorable.