Nara

I took a day-trip to Nara yesterday with a touch of the hangover. I met some cool dudes from Germany, Sweden and England. We found a good British pub and had a Guiness fight. This means that as long as we are drinking, it must be Guiness. Guiness, while exceedinly tasty, does lose some appeal when you are utterly full and have several Guiness in you already. It was a tie anyway.

Nara was very pretty, but it was pouring rain the whole time. That did not deter me though! I am intrepid! I saw the biggest buddha ever, which is also the largest bronze statue in the world. This guy was gigantic to the tune of 35 feet or something. HUGE!

The deer in Nara are very used to humans so they just walk up to you and start GOING THROUGH YOUR POCKETS looking for food. Or possibly cash to go buy food. They might be smarter then we think. I saw several people who had bought some deer crackers being absolutely hounded by deer after they were out of crackers. One dude in a suit had to actually run away to be free. His friends laughed like crazy.

Nara is a very beautiful town outside of Kyoto and was possibly prettier because it was raining. Good fun, some good pictures and seriously, that Buddha is huge.

I leave Kyoto for Osaka today. There will be green beer and much sloshing of Guiness for it is St. Patrick's day! I am excited! I am also going to try to get a room or 'pod' in a capsule hotel. Although I am claustrophobic, I gotta try this once.