Japan vacation scrapbook part 3.

October 5th, 2008

You can view part 1 and part 2 of this Japan vacation scrapbook series here and here. Part 4 (the end) is here.

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Those red things at the top are octopus. I learned while making this book that the Japanese word for octopus is TACO.

I thought food photos were very important while documenting her trip for her so I was sure to include them in the album. I LOVE the top photo. Eating whale is prohibited in Japan, but this sign shows all the whale parts that the restaurant serves. The middle photo shows rice with baby fish that Ashley said was really nasty and the bottom photo is her inside a McDonald’s where they have a double Big Mac.

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These girls went to Tokyo with no place to stay and there were no rooms to rent apparently so they ended up sleeping on the floor of an internet cafe. These young folks nowadays……..there is NO WAY you’d have caught me doing that in my 20’s.

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In that photo at the top of the boxes, there were people sleeping in those.

right side (Tokyo at night–isn’t it beautiful?)

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It’s hard to see them, but I love the colorful balloons in these photos. I guess at their baseball games balloons take the place of pom poms or things like that. She said there’s no 7th inning stretch. Everybody sings a song and then releases the balloons.

right side (new city, new title page)

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I thought it was a wonderful thing that her caption for the bottom photo was about how it was the first temple she had gone into and she cried because it was so amazing. I was glad that being a young adult she wasn’t too embarrassed to admit that.

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More to come tomorrow!

P.S. I do take custom orders for vacation albums. This particular book has 45 pages and with all of the supplies that I used cost $400.00. Each book I make is different, of course, and supplies are different so cost would change with each custom design, but that is the general range of cost for this one.