３１にアイスクリームを食べました。いちごチズケーキがおいしいです。

Yumiko took the "triple challenge" at 31 (Baskin Robins). Strawberry cheesecake icecream is amazing.

お母さんはゲームセンターでこれをかちました。

これしゃしんをクリックしてください。

My host mother won this at one of those claw machines. Click the picture to see it in action!

ピザハット

Pizza Hut. In Japan, you can't order just cheese or just pepperoni, and half of the pizza's on the menu had mayonaise...

おいしかったでした。

still very good stuff.

Crimson Room　をしました。あとで、アメリカでおわりました。

I think I was attempting to break out of the Crimson Room. I didn't do it there but I did it when I got back home.

It's interesting to see so many well known English flash games/videos pop up on Japanese websites.

私はかなしかったでした。にいがたへ行きたくなかったです。

At the shinkansen station before we left to Tokyo. (;_;)

前に、ブライアンさんは日本語の先生の学生でした。今、東京にすんでいます。

Brian used to be one of my Japanese teacher's students. He now works in Tokyo as a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri, an English language newspaper.

ブライアンのクレジットカード

This is Brian's utterly manly credit card.

私の母のホストのあねさんとお母さんに会いました。

When my mother was 16 large creatures roamed the earth she went to Tokyo for a homestay with Kuniko (top right) and her mother. Kuniko meet us when we first arrived in Tokyo before we went to Niigata, went with us to Asakusa, and visited us one more time.

あさくさ

A Shinto shrine in Asakusa. It's right next to the Buddhist shrine.

犬の下にねこはねました。

A guard dog and a sleeping cat.

ろっぽんぎタワーの上へ行きました。

Roppongi tower. We went to the top of this instead of Tokyo Tower, because it's taller.

おおきいくも。

Attack of the giant spiders