ごぶさたしております

Gosh, it's truly been a loooooong time. Went to Beppu some time ago to meet up with the Japanese students who came to join our NUS Kendo Kai training ^-^

Mai, Ikuko and Hiro-kun study in Beppu, in Asia-Pacific University or APU for short.
Here's a picture of their school, all the way up the top of this mountain. VERY COLD.
Hiro and Ikuko... poor Mai was busy doing volunteer work for the school
Beppu is famous for their hotsprings... so where you get onsen, you also get onsen tamago! [eggs steamed by heat from the hotsprings]
While waiting for Mai to wrap up her work, we stopped by a shop that had onsen tamago and onsen pudding.
steaming onsen pudding
onsen pudding and onsen tamago, which was sorta like half boiled egg. Y.U.M.Random scenes while waiting for Mai 1: onsen ryokan
Random scenes while waiting for MAi2: shop

When Mai Finally joined us, we went to enjoy the local hotsprings... poor Hiro, being the only guy had to go in by himself.
After onsen, it was dinner time... we all ended up as a local izakaya
HORSE sashimi [which ikuko took great delight in forcing us to eat]
Ochazuke... sorta like rice in soup with raw fish? only the soup was actually made from tea... YUMMY
ikuko and mochi with cheese. melted. very good... still miss that thing
my sis and i
ikuko and mai... sorry, blur pic
girl pic blame hiro for the blurriness
3 of them
group pic
after dinner we parted ways, but not before running into a drunk guy who insisted he take a picture with us -_-

This is what mabel was doing before he chatted her up kekeke.
END~