It's been over a year since my family visited me in Japan but only half a year
since I posted about our time in Hiroshima and Miyajima
[https://blog.novaugust.net/hiroshima-and-miyajima/]. Since
The International Studies office here at the University of Wyoming is having a
photo competition. They're looking for photos from anyone affiliated with the
school who spent some part of the last year
Hiroshima was great. We stayed on the bay, bounced our way across the waves in a
boat or two, and had a fancy meal up on the twenty second story of a hotel
お台場
Jenn finished her two weeks in Japan with one last ride on the bullet train,
headed back to Tokyo. We said goodbye to her at our fancy hotel on a man-made
island
東大寺
An hour on a train put us in Japan's first capital, Nara. It boasts the largest
wooden structure in the world, Toudaiji (東大寺Great East Temple), and is also
famous for the deer