lazy Sunday

Today was a lazy Sunday for me....well I guess I did something as I went outside! I decided to head downtown and develope some pictures I'd taken over the last couple of months to start working on a new drawing.  My friend Fuusan's birthday is coming up, and I've been thinking of doing a drawing for her as a present.  Sean, the newest English teacher at the Kindergarten (yochien) whose been in Tokushima for afew years, told me the easiest picture kiosk to get to is in the basement of Tokushima station. So I caught the train in from Yoshinari (station closest to my apartment) and set about exploring.  While I was going into town anyways, I grabbed some books I'd rented a few weeks ago from TOPIA (the international center) to return, I figure keeping them happy with me was is good idea! 

With that side errand done I found the camera printing shop and had a little adventure navigating the all Japanese machine.  Even the simplest tasks can be complicated here in Japan!  Which is half the fun I suppose.  It's also what caused me to miss Japan soo much.  Back home just didn't hold all the challenges or make me work to acomplish anything.  It was just so easy and became boring.  Printing my pictures took a while, since after I finally figured out how to work it, the machine wouldn't take my money and I had to use a different one, thus start all over.  Hopefully they found the problem and fixed it.  I like that kind....where it prints them imidiately in front of you.  The other one I had to come back later for them.  So after finding out when they'd be ready I headed upstairs to starbucks to wait and read.  Thank you grandma for the books...I'm already finished with 2 of them!  Starbucks was super crowded though so I got my sandwich and hot chocolate to go and walked to Tokushima park to sit in the sunshine and read.  It was about 5pm by this point so a little chilly, but still wonderful.  I love the park!

Tokushima park...after Sakura

I have no idea why....but I took like 6 pictures of this pigeon!