Sunday, July 10, 2011

Putting Stickers on Bikes and the Chiba Lotte Marine's Bus

The rainy season has finally finished and we had our first weekend with some sunny weather so the two of us headed downtown yesterday sans dog.
Ena suggested inaugurating my new bike with some stickers. So we went to the loft and I chose a sheet of 1970s style Marvel Super Hero faces:
And Ena got some penguins for hers:
I put Iron Man on mine:
and Ena put the penguins on hers:
I got a whole bunch of points on my card at Bic Camera when I bought my new bike, so we stopped there so I could splurge on some more bike swag:
My bike now has its own computer with speedometer, odometer, clock, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

We went for a pretty nice, though hot, bike ride out to Marinoa and back. On the return trip we rode past the Fukuoka Dome, where a game had just ended. The visiting team (Chiba Lotte Marines) were just leaving the stadium via their team bus as we rode by.
We noticed the crowd of fans swarming around and joined them for a few minutes:
Watching people slowly get on a bus one by one isn't a particularly entertaining activity so we only hung around for a couple of minutes.

We stopped for dinner on the way back at an outdoor patio along the river in Nakasu.
Its the perfect place to rest after a long hot summer's day:

3 comments:

Bryan Ochalla said...

Looks and sounds like you had a great time! What's the temperature there these days anyway -- if you don't mind me asking? Also, how long does the, er, dry season last?

Sean said...

Thanks Bryan, we had a great time!

The daytime highs are in the low 30s these days. We'll have hot, humid weather like this until September.

I suppose the "dry season" lasts about 11 months. The rainy season is actually only a "rainy month" which lasts from mid-June to mid-July:)

Anonymous said...

Hey Sean, old acquaintance here from Akashi 99. Can't find your contact info here, so can you drop me a line at the following email address (paste the bits together, futile spam avoidance perhaps):
osakaguy
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(at-sign)
yahoo
dot
com

Thanks!