Friday, August 26, 2005
Blogging may be slightly spotty for the next couple of days, in spite of having a few things burning a hole in my inbox wanting to be posted, as my wife and daughter just got back from visiting family in Nara, Japan for the past six weeks. Y'know, have to fulfill those familial responsibilities and all...
Here are a few shots of my daughter frolicking with the deer that run free in Nara. Yes, they're real wild deer (although very used to humans, of course), and you can purchase special deer cookies to feed them -- like a petting-zoo without fences.
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Is your wife Japanese? My wife is from Fukuoka and I was just curious. I've been to the temple in Nara with the deer and man are they fat. The fattest deer I've ever seen. They come right up and eat the food out of your hand. - Thomas the Wraith
Yup, wife's from Nara.
Cool. That makes us part of a very small niche group: pro-Israeli, anti-jihadi, quasi-neocon American bloggers married to Japanese women. I too am a former Democrats and two-time Clinton voter. And I thought I was the only one.
I was in Nara and those deer are aggressive! They will charge right at you to get the deer cookies.