The aircraft carrier George washington, and i believe this is its new home port as part of the forward pacific fleet (or something like that)

Displacement 91,300 Tons, Dimensions 1088` (oa) x 134` x37`8"(max)

Armament 3 Sea Sparrow-SAM, Starting with CVN-70 4 20mm CIWS,90 Aircraft.

Armour, Unknown.

Machinery,260,000 SHP: 2 Westinghouse (A4W) Reactors Driving Geared Turbines, 4 screws

Speed 35+ Knots, Crew 5617.

Navy.

so this is how you paint a battleship...
wow submarines.

Went for a cruise around Yokosuka naval port today which was awesome as i have never actually seen submarines or warships before, most of the ships here are from the Japanese defense force but the Americans also have a number of ships here.

Christmas.

Hey all, how was christmas for everyone? well i had a good christmas i got a nice photo book of Japan from Kaori's parents and a flash new wallet from Kaori. As far as christmas day goes i spent the evening getting pretty drunk with Kaori's dad and brother while she had to work till after midnight, it made for a fun evening and we seemed to be communicating fairly well but i guess that could be down to the 1.8l bottle of sake i got her dad for christmas (which he almost finished!). I felt sorry for her brother tho as he had to leave at about 5.30 the next morning and it would take him about 2 hours by train to get to work from here.

The next day i was fairly (who am i kidding "REALLY") hungover and i didn't get up till around 11.30 but unbeknown to me her dad had taken the day off work to show me round a temple and a 11.5m buddha. So here he is.

I took about 70 pics so these are just a few i quickly picked out.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Hello everybody and merry christmas to you all. I know i haven't added anything to my blog lately, sorry for that. Its not like i have been to busy to get time to update it its quite the opposite in fact i have been perfecting the art of doing sweet feck all hehe. But its Christmas eve and we went out to see a firework display so i took my camera along and here is what i have to share. I hope you all have a great day and santa brings you what you wished for. 

Hey all sorry i haven't added anything lately but there isn't much to tell but i'll make an effort in the next few days to put so new photos up.

Sunset with moon.

Translation

"go go gadget wransrator" Some of the signs on our trip were funny as and some just made no sense at all. I'm glad there was no emergency while staying here as there was no Dawn in our room.

White heron just about to catch lunch.
Tori tunnels in Kyoto.

Another slow day today nothing much to say but we did have a quick storm pass over and i managed to capture this.

Long day

"got ya" I was just trying to move the sun across for a better shot.

So i have been up staying up so late recently that last night i thought i just wouldn't go to sleep and i will head up the hill behind us in the morning to see if i can see the sunrise from there. When i finally got up there the sky was clear except for cloud on the horizon so i was a little peeved off thinking that this was a bloody waste of time. 
Just when i was thinking that out it came and it was fairly amazing to see just how fast it actually moves over the horizon if i had blinked i would have missed it. So in the end of it all it was worth the no sleep to see it.

Sapporo, sunset from the t.v tower.
Kushiro, another sunset pic.

This was in kushiro, Hokaido looking over the wetlands not the best time of year to see it but it was still great to see it.
Kakunodate, gardens of a samurai house

Yokohama harbour.

View from Himeji castle tower.

Sunset in Kyoto and not a temple in sight.
Shinkansen (bullet train) this is the type of train we used for most of our travels around Japan.

More Red

Autumn colours.
Hiroshima castle. This was destroyed by the a-bomb but rebuilt a few years later there is a lot more to it than what you see in this photo.
View from are apartment in Hiroshima.

more

Sapporo from the tv tower.
On our way to the train station in Asahidake.
This was the school hall in Toya where the volcano erupted. The roof is made of about 100mm concrete and you can see where the falling rocks have smashed straight though.