AND FINALLY...

Those pictures from the birthday barbeque!! yay!! i know that these are almost a month late but i`ve been busy and lazy in varying degrees and the summer heat has, quite honestly with little or no hyperbole, MELTED MY BRAIN! and also my back has been KILLING me the last little while , so sitting for any extended period at the computer is just bloody awful. but i finally got around to it! the barbeque/picnic was on sunday June 18th in Juso (十三), by the side of the Yodo river (Yodogawa - 淀川) and we had a great time all afternoon and into the evening. everyone was worried because the weather reports were calling for rain later in the afternoon but (as you can see from the pictures) exactly the opposite happenned and it cleared up mid-afternoon and we had a beautiful view of the Osaka sky-line across the river and a great sunset! in total about 25 or 30 people came out and over the course of the day people came and went. many showed up around dusk or later since they had to work during the day. thank you to everyone who came and made the day a success! the next one will be on July 30th!

and without further ado here are a select few of the photos from the barbeque: