Videos for August 8-10

I have finally been able to make videos! Now, I slowly work my way to catch up to present day, which might take some time. In the mean time, please enjoy the long awaited videos for August 8th, 9th and 10th!

August 12

Today was a pretty laid back day compared to the previous two*, so I don't have many photos to share, and not enough to make a coherent video. So I'll just post them here.

*Note: I still haven't gotten the video to work yet. August 10th we spent sight seeing on our way to Machu Picchu, and the 12th we spent on Machu Picchu. I have many photos from those two days, and would like to post them at once in their respective videos to get it over with. So please bare with me while I work things out, and enjoy the photos I can provide in the meantime. Thanks!

Some sneak peaks for what you're in store for:

August 10th:

August 11th 

August 8th and 9th 2017

            And we're back again on our biannual summer trip. This time the destination is South America. For the 8th and the 9th we were in the cities of Lima and Cusco, Peru. 

           I do intend on creating daily photo videos again, however, I am still ironing out some difficulties with the new computer and how to get the videos to you. In the meantime, I will provide some of my favourite photos from the past two days and try to get the video posted in the new future. 

July 10th and 11th

Last post for this trip! :0

July 10^th was a very, very long day. We started off cleaning up the apartment, and left to go to Ueno to find souvenirs. After that we went back to the apartment packed up all our stuff and left. We hopped from different train lines until we were running down the platform to find a non-reserved car on the Narita Airport Express. Yes, the airport train. We were finally taking the long flight back. At 6:45pm JST (Japan Standard Time) we took off. Despite trying to sleep on the plane, the day was not over. We woke up and landed in Dallas, Texas at 4:10pm CT (Central Time), seeming like we had time traveled. With a good chunk left in the day we set out to a little town for dinner, and came along really cool, giant wind chimes. 

*Ben in the left picture is around 5ft, to get the idea of the size of the chimes.

July 11^th, we woke up early, at 4:30am in order to get ourselves, prepared, fed, and to the airport on time to catch the flight back to New Jersey. The flight back here wasn’t bad, it was 3.5 hours, and we landed in NJ around 11. We were able to make our way back home, get lunch, and restock up with groceries, all before 2:00.

And thus my blog updates for this summer concludes. Bye!  

July 9

Today we took another train; actually we took many trains to get from Kyoto back to Tokyo. It was raining the entire time, but we decided to walk around in the rain anyways and do some last minute souvenir shopping, and grocery shopping. Also, we decided to play around on trains again. Trying to figure out stations, only to get off and go back the way we came, as well as getting stuck in a station and the only way to leave was to lie to the guy we got on the wrong train. Oh well. Tomorrow we board a plane to Dallas, for a stop over and start our journey home. Anyways, I didn’t really take any pictures, so no video, but I did take this cool one of my father’s umbrella, and edited a bit, so enjoy this random umbrella picture. 

July 8

Wow, so a lot happened today. My video does not include all of it, one reason of trying to keep them short (not like the two-parter from earlier), another because we weren’t allowed to take pictures in some places. We went to a temple with 3 parts, and then we climbed up a mountain. Today’s video includes, water, rocks, attempts of butterflies, temple pagodas, cats, mushrooms, and lots and lots of reddish orange shrine gates. 

July 7

Beach, fish, jellyfish, turtles, starfish, rocks, and more beach. Cool. Oh yeah, and rain, lots of rain. Please enjoy today’s video of the beach that has a very long name, Japan! J