MOSC Small Business Expo

The MOSC (Misawa Officers Spouces Club) had a home business expo so I had a booth with my new custom art business. Here I am with my booth! Here are some close ups! This is OilPen & Ink on Tea Stained Paper
Oil
Pen & Ink... if you click on the picture you will be able to see the details...
Pen & Ink on tea stained paper... this one also have lots of details... this one is super populer... people were like wow I really like the "S" but my last name is Jones... and I would say... well I do know the whole alphabet!
Oil- this one was really popular as well
Pen & Ink
Photo prints I had for sale and you can the my business cards I made!
My friend Erica sells Arbonne and this was her booth!

Air Fest

Misawa Air Fest 2009!!!! With the Blue Impulse and the THUNDERBIRDS! its was a great show, the 14th made tons of money selling cakes, patches, and temporary tattoos! Here are two little boys in their flight suits... so cute!there were an estimated 300,000 Japanese nationals on the flight line this one day! HOLY MOLY it was PACKED! it was weird seeing a white person, cause there were so many Japanese
This is how close the planes were to us! it was crazy
There were these two girls just hanging on this F-2 in flight suits for pictures... it was pretty funny!
THE THUNDERBIRDS!
There were children crying the whole time because they were so loud and so close! This kid is looking as him mom like I don't think I like this!
Japanese and their crazy awesome cameras... everyone had a camera like these it seemed... slightly jealous... but I love my camera and it is doing great for me! I would really like photoshop however!
CRAZYNESS!
ZOOM!
BOOYAH!
Apperently this move is super hard but he just went in front of the crowd really slowly with his nose pointed up like this the whole time... a lot of g's i guess.
It was really super cool!


All tired out!

Mt. Oser... trip #2

My friend Rachel and her Aunt were wanting to make a day trip up to Mt. Oser (the mythical entrance to hell) and were asking me about it and I decided to go again cause it was such a fun trip the first time!Last time we were at this spot it was kinda cloudy and the water was really choppy and scary... this time is was calm clear and beautiful!


Rice being harvested! I love this time of year!

Big Buddah
These surfer pits are crazy (if you want more back info on the mythical entrance to hell check out my blog entry the first time we went... just go look back through old posts on the left hand side... you'll see it!)
We were right after a festival and the signs were everywhere... a huge pile of pinwheels left for their dead children... very sad
Somebody left flowers and a coke...
and as you are leaving you could try "mugwort (herb)" ice cream! I did not try it... I wish I had

Mt. Eboshi Bike Ride

So I signed up for a bike ride with outdoor rec hoping at least one of my friends would want to go with me and sign up too... but nobody did... but no worries I still went... on the bike ride. It turned out to just be this other little girl (well she was 26) and me... AND WE WERE THE FIRST GROUP TO EVER MAKE IT TO THE TOP! Heck Yeah!

We started the ride at this campground and this picture is for you Dad... this is a game the Japanese play with golf clubs and bad mitten little things... they hit them with the golf clubs into this net thing...There were also a whole bunch of plastic floats painted with different things... this one was my favorite!
Beware of baboon?... nope just a really poor drawing of a bear!
There was apperently some logging going on! cool stacking though!
So this was NOT an easy ride... and I really did not think I would make it to the top! But I had this delicous sandwich I made and every time I wanted to stop I just had to remember my sandwich and tell myself I would not get to eat it unless I made it to the top! and here is my half my sandwich and a HUGE GRAPE! that thing was like three bites! HOLY MOLY!
This is how I ate my sandwich at the top! It was SO worth it!
View from the top, that is Mutsu bay on the left
Other side of the view... looking towards the Hakkoda mountains
There were a ton of TV towers on top of the mountain
This is looking back where we came from... this is maybe 3/4 of the way back down... that mountian is what I rode my bike up... BOOYAH
Random awesomeness
If you look close you can see Kodji (our guide... also the guy who taught me how to surf) and I in the shadow below the waterfall!
We stopped at a farmers market outside of Towada... with Horse Jerky...

Beef & Garlic Festival

Driving to the beef and garlic festival with my friend Erica! the rice is getting big! some of it was already being harvested!
Barn sort of thing the festival was held at... and vans with tarps off the side...
Fish on a stick... classic festival food!
We studied how these Japanese people were cooking thier food to see how we should cook ours... festival workers came up to our grill with a big hunk of beef fat and lubed up our grill and we threw on our food!
We just ate as it became ready!
Erica and I
The festival was a the bottom of some ski runs so after Erica and I drove to the top and took in the view! It was AMAZING!
There was a little shinto shrine that we waded through shoulder high grass to get to!
Erica and her new Christian CD cover
Even the street lights were garlic shaped
Cool vineyard we stopped at on the way back!
the most Ghetto vending machines I have seen yet... home made signs... cinder block leveling... classy