I swear, this is the longest I've ever celebrated my birthday. I started at 12:00 AM Saturday morning, and the festivities are still not over. Today we have cake...because my roomie is the best roomie in the whole wide world (It's cake, man...) She even got the little candy animals and "Tanjoubi Omedetou" sign I'd been having my eye on. And to think I wasn't going to celebrate that much at all...ha ha.
I guess it still feels like my birthday cause the Internet died Saturday afternoon while I was out and didn't get back up until Monday morning, so I'm still answering all the people who wrote on my Facebook wall. I figured since I've been so lax in letting people know I'm still alive while I've been in Japan (or been in college, in some cases), now's a good opportunity to at least say hi. So if you wrote me Happy Birthday, expect at least a "thank you" in the next few days.
I ended up doing some traveling on my birthday after all. Pretty much, I woke up, started on my studying, then said, "Screw this. It's my birthday. It's my birthday in frickin' Japan! I'm going to Kyoto! Yarr!" (Well, okay, I didn't say "yarr", but you get the picture.)
So I ate at the ramen shop down the road and hopped a train to Kyoto. I decided to go to Arashiyama this time, which is in the western part of Kyoto. It's got a kinda old-school feel to it, and there are kouyou (ridiculously red leaves) everywhere this time of year. Arashiyama is famous for them. It's pretty much the end of the season, so the leaves are falling, but I still got to see some spectacular scenery. As the sun was setting, I took a sightseeing train through the mountains by this beautiful river...it was gorgeous. Hiking from the sightseeing train station to the JR station in the cold wasn't so fun, but there was the orangest sunset I have ever seen, so I didn't really think about it. Fall is my favorite time of year, and the changing leaves are my favorite thing about it, plus I adore sunsets, so I was really thankful for that day. It was definitely a very awesome birthday.
One more thing- I bought some tinted lip balm here (Nivea, by the way...I didn't know they made lip care stuff...). What better way to add to my extensive lip balm/gloss collection (and feed my fetish) than to buy Japanese lip balm...? (Doesn't matter if I could probably buy something very close to it back in the States...it's Japanese.) I really like the subtle pink tint it gives my lips, and it moisturizes oh so well (which is sometimes hard to find in lip balms). But the best thing is definitely the name. Watering Lip- Pink Veil. Yes, it's in Engrish.
...I love Japan.
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