Another holiday gone by

We know we've been delinquent recently bloggers, but we didn't realize how delinquent until we started this posting and saw that the most recent blog we added was about Halloween... oops.  So, as Thanksgiving has now passed, GT has lost to the Bulldogs another year in a row, and we are now certified open water scuba divers, we thought we'd share some pictures from recent weeks and our recent trip to Thailand.

Starting with the first few weeks of November, below are a few of the sights around Tokyo we wanted to share: Mos Burger (which tastes like Krystal or White Castle), dogs in clothes (which is amusingly more common than dogs without clothes), a ninja cutting grass (yep, we found a ninja), a museum of ham (or in this case, prosciutto), and a very odd Cafe Tobacco (never seen one of those before).

Now onto our scuba trip to Thailand.  We spent the week of Thanksgiving in Phuket (pronounced poo-ket) getting our dive certification, laying on the beach, and watching muay thai boxing which turned out to be quite amusing.  Unfortunately, Thailand doesn't really celebrate Thanksgiving, so the closest we could come to a turkey and sweet-potatoe pie was a Burger King burger and fries.  But the Thai food was excellent, and compared to Tokyo prices that we've become somewhat accustomed to, it was super cheap.

During our dives, we saw all kinds of crazy fish and coral, like the scorpion fish, the lion fish, and the ghost pipe fish, some black tip reef sharks, a sea turtle, and a moray eel.  We had one day of classroom lessons and pool instruction learning how to use the equipment, then we took two days of boat trips and to 5 different dive sites.  It really was incredible and we had a great time!  But, now that we've returned from the chaos of Thailand back to Tokyo (where order presides), we're a little sunburnt, a little tired, but scuba certified and very happy.