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| Finally in 2012! With a group of high school guys who accosted us for a picture, haha :p |
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| The line to get to Meiji Shrine |
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| The high schoolers/our entertainers during the 2-hour wait |
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| Finally in view of the shrine! Waiting to get close enough to throw in our 5-yen coin and pray |
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| First meal of the year- udon at 4-something in the morning |
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| First sunrise, blocked by clouds |
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| S's pup, Ryu! |
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| At the shrine near my place. Got some yummy, spicy tteokbokki |
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| Got our omikuji. Mine was... kinda bad? Curse with future blessing?? |
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| Tied my fortune up with the others so my bad luck won't follow me |
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| Lots of tied up omikuji |
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| Heading up to the shrine for more prayers |
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J and S and S's pup have all gone back home. The place is quite, and it's back to work for me tomorrow. Luckily there's only 3 days of work this week, and then since Monday is a holiday i get a 3-day weekend to help ease me back into full-time work. Thinking about actually doing resolutions for this year, so will probably make that a post for tomorrow.
6 comments:
Looks like you had an awesome New Year's celebration. If I ever get to be in Japan for it I would hope to get bad fortune. It just looks too cool how all the omikuji are tied up together. And aren't they all burnt together? For some reason I think that really, well, romantic. LOL!
From what i've heard, yes they are all burnt together! I kind of wanted to take mine with me though because i couldn't read some of the kanji and i wanted to find out what it said. I took pictures of it though so i hope i can figure it out from those.
What if you accidentally burnt a good fortune? Is that considered bad?
Ummm... not sure! I really don't know much about omikuji. My friends even had to tell me whether mine was good or not, lol.
awesome times!!! had a blast with you two, as always. hisashiburi ni besties beginning another year together <3!!
Shaly- <3 i'm glad i got to spend another New Year with you guys too!! We gotta do 2013 together too!
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