A Day in Nagahama w/the Girls

Ok, I know that it has been a while, but nothing really interesting has happened since my last posting. But, now I have something to share. Last weekend, the girls and I took a lovely day trip out to Shiga Prefecture to the city Nagahama. We saw the largest lake in Japan-I can't remember the name and Nagahama Castle. Also, Linda wanted to go because it has the kinda famous glass making school where people can come to learn how to work with glass-and that is exactly what we did. Here are some pics from that wonderful day.



ME!!! I was sitting on one side of the 4 person see-saw.


Linda sitting on one of the other sides about to pee her pants with laughter.


Margaret channeling her inner child. She didn't have to dig far to find it.


See what I mean...


...and she is off!! How awesome does this look?


Now how cute is she? Super cute I tells ya!


Random monkeys in a cage in the middle of the park.


The greenery was very...GREEN.


Well, I look good backdropped with green.



Peeping through woods


The girl and the lake


Wind-swept


Gazing


Margaret and I braving the strong winds and looking purdy :-)


See how windy it was...but I still look fierce :-p


Linda and I trying not to blink, but still looking cute.


I believe I can fly...at least they do...



Even my shadow is caught up in the breeze.


Nagahama Castle...I think


Which way should we take?


Beautiful stained glass


Just funny. This belongs on failblog.org


Down the streets of Nagahama



Nagahama Ramen


Linda and her new boy-toy outside the action figure museum.


Us after hours of toiling with fire and glass to make pendants.


Look! I made a phone dangly...But I really did make the blue marble from scratch with fire and glass. I thought that making this was much harder than creating the pendants.


The 3 pendants I made!!


Grrr...scary Margaret on the train going home.


Linda and her creations.


My works of art


Aren't they pretty...