I’m not sure if people still even visit this part of the internet, but in case they do; hi, i’m back!
Sort of…

We got back to Tokyo on Tuesday, but i haven’t had many seconds to myself since then, and i certainly haven’t had the opportunity to spend any of them on blogging.
We’ve been moving for Ink Rat, we’ve been studying Japanese and we currently have our first ever Tokyo visitor, and house guest, so obviously we’re pretty excited about showing him all of our favorite Tokyo things, places and foods.

Even now, i’m wondering if i should be spending the rest of this rare night home alone* on blogging, or if i should maybe be painting or doing more homework?

But while i may lack the time to post here, i’m most definitely not lacking material.
I came back from our trip with four rolls of film, that i am now trying to turn into a more blog friendly number of pictures, so i don’t find myself posting pictures of Miayajima and Izumi’s baby for the next two months!
Yeah, and i have Tokyo pictures and iPhone pictures too… i better get this started!

We left for Fukuyama a week ago.
Not by Nozomi this time, but with regular, old railpass friendly Hikari. It may not be as fast, but it got us there, and while i wouldn’t say i enjoy any form of transportation that isn’t my bike, the Shinkansen is one of the better ones.

Izumi made us delicious dinner when we arrived, and we stayed up late catching up.
Oh, and princess Akari definitely did not recognize us at first, and it took a good hour of crying before she accepted our presence! I’m sure glad we didn’t get that welcome the first time.

The next day, the day we’d wanted to spend on Sensuijima, it rained, so our hosts suggested we visited the Bikan Historical Quarter in Kurashiki, kind of a mini arts and crafts version of Kyoto, instead. So that’s what we did.
We shopped for handmade souvenirs, ate udon, took lots of pictures and ended up at an outlet mall where i bought nothing and Allan bought shoes. 
Before getting back on the train to Fukuyama, we picked up food and donuts to take home with us, and ended up having quite the feat back at the house.

The next morning we had to catch a Shinkansen, a local train and a ferry, so we went to bed early.
Oh, and of course the weather was great the next day. Ain’t that just typical?**

Ok, that’s the end of part one!
As usual, i used my precious Canon AE-1 and a ton of different films, so i won’t even try to remember which ones were used when. And also as usual, no editing besides the necessary resizing!

Still coming up; at least two posts from an action packed day on Miyajima, an afternoon in Hiroshima and whatever we’ve been up to since returning to Tokyo!

*The guys are at a show, and i’ve been so excited about being home alone, but i already wasted a good hour of my night napping. Apparently i was really tired.

**Having just woken up from a nap does not make for great writing, so i can only hope some of this made sense. If not, i’ll try to make up for it in the next post!