Saturday after work I hauled ass to Osaka, and caught an express train to Nagoya, Japan to hang out with Ken and Heather! The train ride was about two and a half hours, and then a 30 minute train to Inuyama, where Ken lives. We went to the Nagoya Port Aquarium.
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The weather was rainy and cloudy all weekend. And it was 90 degrees. Muggy and humid. We headed straight to the Antarctica area.
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Heather and I posing with a penguin mail box outside the aquarium.
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Dolphins!
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Kid on a leash. WITH angel wings. Awesome.
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I'm not sure if you can tell, but this Beluga Whale had what looked like a tattoo. It must have been scarring, but it was almost too perfect to be an accident. I still have no idea what it was. And one of the whales was pregnant. It. Was. HUGE.
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Heather's gangster face at the dolphin show.
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Playing catch!
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This dolphin not only jumped super high to hit the ball with its nose, it did it again with it's fin!
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HH and I with a penguin.
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Random little urinal inside the women's restroom. We decided it was for small boys with their mothers.
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In the Nagoya TV Tower.
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Central Park from the East.
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Central Park from the West.
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Americans!
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I ran into this store, Heather took a quick photo, and then we left. We did get some strange looks.
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Heather's gangster face, again.
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Me attempting to be artsy-fartsy on the boring train ride home.
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