kicks in the door HEYYYYYYYY WHATS UP. ITS MEEEEEEEEE

so i had my first vacation in like. years. and i went all the way to japan for it because a friend was nice enough to buy my ticket.

my friends are so nice what the fuck. but anyway. two whole weeks of no work and japan. what a time.

granted it was not a relax on the beach kind of vacation, we had to hoof it everywhere. which ya know, to be expected. except walking everywhere wasn't nearly as miserable as trying to walk everywhere back home

it was just as hot though make no mistake about that. don't want to go back in the summer thats for sure. but what did i do out there? a little bit of everything tbh.

+ first day we went to go get or fortunes for the trip, before that my shoe had to break. good thing i brought a second pair tho. and wouldn't you know it my luck ended up being not good from the one i pulled, because thats just how it had to be. even trying to tie it off on the little bar was a pain in the butt, so good start to the trip there, really have no one to blame but myself for that i should've packed better shoes. after that we walked a big path with really big torii gates and split off to go to a zoo, my partner got to see a sun bear for the first time and he didn't know what to make of it. they're weird looking so that tracks. also there was a washimi :D (secretary bird) and i feel like the entire time a bird showed up i was able to give a fun bird fact about them, including that secretary birds kick at like 15 horsepower and thats how they hunt snakes for food. got sunburnt big time but only on the one side of my boob. its hot as fuck outside. this will be a running trend.

+ day two we had a day to ourselves for the second half but before that we went to a ufo catcher place and spent waaaaaay too much time in there but we all got something out of at least one machine, a snow tit for me, a monkey for sork, a banana for andrei (he spent at least 50 dollars on that thing i swear) and michael got a cinnamaroll. he also got this little kuromi baggie in two tries that had a bunch of smaller goodies inside, i stole the budgie out of it because bird. we stopped at jonathons after splitting off and they had a hello kitty collab going on it netted me a cute rubber stamp keychain, also they had this gold kiwi juice and it was so tasty. the juice in japan tasted so fucking good man. didnt even think about drinking coke like half the time i just wanted the really good juice they had, and apparently i got to taste some limited time cherry juice in one of the yamanote line machines. shit was good. rest of the day was just chilling with my partner in the hotel room because it's fucking hot.

+ third day was kind of a blur, is this why people blog about things while its happening so they dont forget? that would've been a great idea but alas, here i am now struggling to remember. we ha an itinerary but it kind of, flopped around a bit.

+ the rest of the shit i forgor tbh, its been too long and my minds not as sharp as it used to be. went to the fushimi inari shrine and walked one william steps up, one of my friends snapped a pic of the progress and it looked like i was about to die. (i was. man i'm out of shape) we did a bunch of shopping. went to the k-on school and it made me emotional for what it used to be when it first opened because it was oddly lonely and quiet.partners feet were too big for the lil slippers we had to wear and ended up with splinters in his socks. and also they had squat toilets at the train station it was like, the true boonies experience (i handled it fine, if you were wondering.) we did get caught in the rain on an island and theres a really good picture of that too, great time all around 10/10 would get caught in the rain again. really funny tidbit in that most of the time when people would speak to us as a group, they'd focus on and speak to me the most? is it because i'm small, i bet it's because i'm small.

we're trying to go back in early 2026, to avoid the Hot and the Wet. yippie!