| Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| One Trivia Night and One Day in Hiroshima |
 Trivia question: What breakfast food goes well with everything... salad, ice cream, chicken, and so on? Obviously, it's cornflakes. So fusion, so unnecessary, but secretly I think it's fantastic. On their first full day of the Japan Tour, Version 5.0, the 'rents came along, jet-lagged and cranky, to another great Trivia Night by Bob-n-Eric. I kept waiting for questions that never came about Britney Spears, playground tag game strategy in modern Japan, onsens, or Shakespeare. It turns out that I, like the cornflakes, am so fusion and so unnecessary. Jon K Gogh worked his way onto the team with claims that he was admitted to PhD school on the basis of his trivia knowledge alone-- such lies! But those civil war questions would've otherwise gone unanswered, and the JET Lags certainly didn't get last place.
 After a busy Easter, M/D and AB went off to Shikoku, and we all met up in Hiroshima a few days later. My dad wanted to see Miyajima, which is home to the really big red torii shrine and and an army of scary monkeys. The deer that swarm the island look worse than ever: skinny, scraggly, and going through molting season and/or lice infestation. They were mostly too sickly to do anything but lay under construction scaffolding, and only one approached us half-heartedly for the requisite chomp of a map out of tourist hands. I'd diagnose shika influenza or maybe severe apathy, but shouldn't notify the authorities until there is someone to blame.
 (From foreground): Dadster, Rick-Steves-Approved backpack, Big Bad Rice Paddle.
 Sisterly love is tender and true...
 (Hey A-belle! J-Lo called... 5 years ago. She wants her shades back.) The best line from the fortunes that we bought at a hilltop temple was Abelle's love forecast: "He will arrive, but he will be late." Late for what? Late for dinner? Late for the wedding? Late as in the Late Dentarthurdent? It's sort of a threat, you see...
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