Elle's Adventures

Last Saturday Dede and I went to Nagoya for Halloween. A friend said that he and others were going to attend 'The Absolute Halloween', which included entry to seven different clubs, all for only 3000 yen! (about $35AU) Considering Halloween isn't really celebrated in Australia, we didn't want to miss this opportunity. On Thursday I ordered my costume, and Dede decided to be a zombie so we had to research how to do all of his makeup.  My costume arrived Friday night, thank goodness! Then we went out to buy a LOT of makeup, which funnily enough was mostly for Dede. On Saturday we got to the hotel at around 3:30pm and realised that it was located within one minute of most of the clubs! We both got ready...Dede's makeup took about four hours. At around 8:00pm we went to our first place, the Red Rock Club. Turns out it was an Australian bar so there were plenty of people to talk to. They had a deal going; 3000 yen for an all you can eat buffet and all you can dr...

Yes, at the moment it is a three-day holiday here in sweaty Japan.  Today Dede and I took off to Nagoya for some Chinese and shopping. He ended up buying yet another lens for his camera, and well, I just got a meal. I'm pretty sure we spent over two hours at the camera store so I didn't get to look at very much :( Other than that there hasn't been any else new! So take a look at some photos from the past month or so. I had been craving some sweet wine, which is surprisingly hard to find here. So I ordered some Brown Brothers Zibibbo online! It's from a Japanese store, so I figure I could find it instore...somewhere. But no such luck yet ;) I may live in what's technically called a 'city', but there are still little rice-paddies surrounding my house. It's wonderful! I love watching the older people planting and tending to their rice (as I haven't seen any young people at it yet!) Quite a while ago I got a coupon from McDo...