Hello my YouTube friends!
So today is my first full day in Japan, and I couldn't be more excited!
So behind me is the Pacific Ocean and this is my first time seeing it.
I can tell you right now, that I never thought that I would see it
from this side of the world. I always thought it may be like, go to California, go
to British Columbia or something along those lines to be able to see it, but
when Akane told me that it was specific ocean this morning, it's just...I don't know,
it's a very weird and very cool feeling and experience. I'm going be able
to get to the Pacific Ocean here in Japan.
So today I'm not sure what we're
doing, we're just kind of...after that such a...because it was a 13-hour flight for one
of them, and a two-hour flight, and then getting to the airport which took an
hour and a half, and then two-hour layover, and then we took a train when we
got here for two hours. So yesterday was an extremely long day of traveling. So we
are just getting...because it's a 12 hour difference between Halifax
and Japan. Japan's 12 hours ahead, so it's just getting used to the new...
new time. So today we're just walking around Iwaki, and yeah, just seeing
what Japan has to offer in a like a smaller town. It's a beautiful day! It's
supposed to be 23, with that sun out, I can tell you it feels a lot warmer than that!
It's so fantastic! So anyway, I hope you guys will like the video,
I'm not sure exactly what its going to compose of as of yet, but as probably is going
be the sights and and sounds of Iwaki.
So something that's still so strange for me
is the fact that people are driving on the opposite side of the road here!
I'm not used to that whatsoever. This is the first country I've been to where
they've driven on this side of the road. So just even seeing people driving on
that side, is like my mind is like "ahh". It just like twitches a little bit.
But then last night getting a...Akane's father picked us up picked us up from the train station,
and just driving on the other side of the road was this so...it's not that
driving on that side of the road is weird, but it's that everything in the
cars flipped, and that is weird. Just looking at like the driver's seat on the
other side the car is so weird!
Alright?
Go! Yeah, I'm already recording!
Oh!
So do you remember how I said this was my first
time at the Pacific Ocean?
Now is going to be the first time standing very, very
shallowy in the Pacific Ocean, because if it's anything like it is on the west
coast of Canada or the United States, I can expect it's going to be super cold!
So, we'll see.
I wouldn't say it's any colder than Rainbow Haven or anything is.
It's not that bad.
Ok!
You know sometimes when I'm at home,
You know, you see your friends buy new cars, or buy houses, and you start
thinking "Is that what I'd rather do" and sometimes you kind of think "Yeah it is"
but then you come to places like this and you realize that what you're doing
there's nothing better than that.
Yeah, you don't have the same shorts that I do.
Oh yeah.
When's the last time you're in the water in Japan?
8 years ago.
8 years ago! Crazy!
This is cold!
It's cold, but it's no colder than it is in Halifax!
Done?
Yes!
It's funny because usually I find things super cold.
I don't know, I don't find this that bad!
Like I don't know!
This is cold!
If this is what people in the West Coast
think that cold water is like, then working it up in my mind, it's not as
bad as what it is!
Perhaps it's going to be different when
I do get the chance to go to California, maybe just the where it's situated is
what makes the difference, but right now Pacific Ocean: Awesome!
Founds some beans on this tree.
(Along our wlk to Misaki Park)
Having a bit of trouble huh?
Excellent. Nice find.
Your supper tonight.
This is Japanese Pine.
Japanese Pine.
It looks different.
Yeah it does. It's got the longer needles. Those are called Pine cones.
Yeah we have Pine cones. The ones that we have are not necessarily as
round as this. They're a little more elongated, but we do have them.
So there's a song from when I was a little kid called "Joshua Giraffe"
so anytime you see a giraffe, we do a comparison.
Or at least a picture taken with him.
Picture please!
Ok.
Picture please, picture lady.
But the giraffe looks not good.
He doesn't have much spots anymore.
Darn Japanese giraffes.
Looks like a camel.
He does!
I was debating whether he was a camel.
But he's got no hump, so...
So he's either a spotless giraffe or a humpless camel.
Are you following me on Instagram yet?
When's the last time you were in a maze?
25 years ago?
And where were you?
In Japan.
Yeah, let's see if you can get through this one.
I think my last maze was...
at Disneyland in Paris.
What? You went to Disneyland is Paris?
Umm hmm
They have Disneyland in Paris?
Yes!
I thought that's why you said it was a trap. I thought you saw it.
No, I meant this one.
Alright.
That's enough maze for us.
Let's get out of here.
And indeed we did. So much in fact, that I didn't finish this vlog properly. I blame the spiders for that. As should you. Hope to see you in the next video!
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Filmed September 2018