Dec. 8th

Last weekend Braden and I went to Vogel Park, a park in Matsue that has a humongous garden and a large collection of exotic birds. It was lots of fun, and the birds were really cool. In one room the birds were free to roam and mingle with guests. In the picture you can see one approaching me. It was kinda scary! Lol, I get a little nervous around big birds, I always think they`re gonna bite me or something! They also had lots of cool owls, and even a few really big birds, like emus and ostriches, and another big bird with a really wierd beak that made it look just like a dinosaur! It was crazy. We joked with our friends that took us that the power was gonna go out and the bird would escape and come after us just like Jurassic Park. Lol, it was funny. The garden was neat too, hundreds of different kinds of flowers and fancy bushes, and we had ice cream cones that were Begonia and Fuschia flavored 0_o. They actually tasted pretty good. The flower taste was pretty subtle, mostly it just tasted like delicious cream and sugar, hehe. Today Braden and I ordered a Christmas cake at the grocery store. A yummy white cake with strawberries on top, yum :). I can`t wait to try it. Tonight we`re having dinner with a couple who goes to church with us; they`re gonna make oden apparently, which I had in the school cafeteria once, it was pretty good, I wonder what homemade oden is like? Guess I`ll find out soon :).