Miss Neko in Kyoto: The Kinkaku-ji ♥ Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Hi there (^-^)v
Today I'll show you my trip to the Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺
("Temple of the Golden Pavilion") in Kyoto ♥
It's a quite famous Zen Buddhist temple.

It's one of my favourite places in Japan and is surrounded by
a stunning garden. For my other entry about Kyoto click here:
Kimono & Kiyomizu-dera

My outfit 
Dress: Liz Lisa
Necklace: Liz Lisa
Bag: Candy Sugar

Here's a map of Kyoto. I've circled the Kinkaku-ji red.
It's on the upper left:

I went to the temple together with my friend Bea ♥

We saw lots of different temples and shrines in Kyoto that day.
She wore one of her Kimono outfits:

It was an extremely hot day, that's why she took the umbrella with her.
I also always carried a black one with me to protect my skin
from the sun. We also made sure to drink enough.
I had this cute My Melody & Hello Kitty peach drink ♥
It tasted really great !

I love My Melody \(^-^)/

This was at another temple area in Kyoto :

A small waterfall *-* It felt so great being surrounded by
such beautiful nature all the time. It really calmed me a lot.

~♥~

A Shinto Shrine :

♪ Bea :

Here you could pray for beauty I think, so of course I also had
to do that :D

~♥~

When I recognized Bea was taking pictures ^o^

I absolutely love the gardens and nature which surround Japanese
temple & shrine areas ♥

The entrance to the Kinkaku-ji area :

You could see the reflection of the temple in the water surrounding it
so well ! The pond is called Kyōko-chi (鏡湖池 Mirror Pond).

There's a Phoenix ornament on top of the roof :

And of course there's also a Kinkaku-ji Hello Kitty :

In Japan every region and tourist attraction has it's own Hello Kitty version. ♥
This is one of the many cute and small things about Japan that make me
appreciate it so much.
At the Kinkaku-ji there is, like at most temples, also a place
at which you can wish for love, luck and more.

My friend Bea got an enmusubi lucky charm there for
my boyfriend Valentin and and me *-* Thanks so much again ♥
That was so sweet :3 For everyone who doesn't know, Enmusubi means 

"love knot". My boyfriend has a similar looking one in pastel blue.

I also lit a candle for our relationship ♥
We're together since 3 and a half years now and want to
spend our future together ^^ 
The second candle from the bottom right is ours:

More photos I took from the garden area :

One time we even saw this cute turtle ♥
I think it was a Chinese soft shell trutle. It's head looked quite different to
other turtles I've seen before. I thought it looked really pretty.

~♥~

On our way back :

There were also lots of shops with typical souveniers from Kyoto :

Usagi ♥ I've got one of these as a pink cat.

And we saw these cool umbrellas. They get sweet patterns
when they're hit by rain.

They would be a good reason for me to like rain a bit more.
Sadly I couldn't take one of these home with me, they were too big.

Geisha (Maiko) doll :

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Look at how tall these trees are ! It felt really enchanting when I stood there.

~♥~

I hope I'm not too obsessed but I can't state enough
how much I like Japanese nature. I even took lots of pictures of the
ground which was covered by moss. (I'll spare you this time and
won't show you my floor photos ;D ). But to me it was
really interesting that even the ground looked so very different than
it does in German forests/gardens.

That's it for today ♥
I hope you enjoyed reading, feel free to ask me any question
you might have now.
See you next time (^-^)v nyan ~♪

2 year anniversary with my love ♥ Holi colors festival & my Hippie heart

Hi there (^-^)v
On the 23rd of August my boyfriend and I had
our 2 year anniversary ♥ ~(^▽^(^▽^*)~、。･:*:･【愛】

Luckily on the 22.8.13 my boyfriend had a performance as

Virtual Riot at the Holi in Colors festival (Airfield in Mendig) !
So we went to the festival and had a great time. Some of our

friends had tents there as well and when we had some free time

we enjoyed the party with them ~♪

When my boyfriend performed I was among the photographers
and I also filmed. Here is a short clip of his live performance.

He played before Zeds Dead and Feed me !  *-*
Fedde le Grand also performed at the festival.
It was a great weekend. I totally love festivals. But I must

admit I was very happy that his management got us a

great hotel room in a spa *-* It was like short holidays ♥.
We also went eating some ice cream and had a romantic walk

along a river which was the habitat for lots of protected birds.
On the second day we saw Porter Robinson live again \(^-^)/

My look for day 1 :

The line up :

Here you can see some of the color powder that has be thrown :

~♥~

 The main stage :

As we only had a backstage room at the first day when my 

boyfriend performed we needed a room for our gear

at the second day as well. So we came up with the idea that

Porter Robinson sure wouldn't mind if we'd use his room,too.

We didn't need much space anyway and he was so super

nice at the Bootshaus in cologne before, that we were sure he would
be okay with it. We also left him this note and some stickers ~♥

After the festival I spend some relaxing days with Valentin ♥

And finally my Madoka Magica mousepad arrived *-*

I also got this Artemis necklace from etsy ♥
I saw it on tumblr and totally fell in love with it.

~♥~

And my mother brought this with her for me from her holidays at
the sea. She's so cute ヾ(〃^∇^)ﾉわぁい♪
It's a small board for breakfast, there even is Marie from
Aristocats on it ~ thanks mum ! ~(=^‥^)/｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

I also spend lots of days at Valentin's home. His family has a great
garden with strawberries and redcurrants *o*
I absolutely love redcurrants. In Germany they are called
"Johannisbeeren" which sounds a little similar to my name Johanna ^^

It was such a hot summer day *-* I really enjoy it to just sit on the
grass for a long time, relaxing and looking at the sky.
I really have a hippie heart ♥ I wish I had been young in 1968.
But I also think nowadays there still are lots of great movements.
The world already has improved a little but we still need
to go a long way and I'm willing to be a part of creating a better
and healthier world. The hippie movement isn't
  something outdated, it is still very important today !
And lots of people still are very caring and willing to protect this
planet. This really fills me with joy.
A few days ago I saw in the musical "Hair" at my local theatre,
in which my mum also played a part^^
It was really great, if you don't know it you should check it out

it really is a milestone and totally stunning ♥

~♪~
Aquarius and let the sunshine in -
Hair musical on Broadway

And here are some images of the interpretation of the musical
"Hair" of the theatre in my hometown which I saw last week

with my boyfriend. I really liked it *-*
I used to play at this theatre for 7 years as well ♥

My mother started there together with me because I was so young,

but now she still plays there. I don't have time anymore,
but I really used to love it.
Hair : 

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 My mother is the 3rd from left (she's wearing a wig, her real hair is black).
She played one of the parents. She really has lots of fun acting, dancing and singing ~ like me ^-^ We're really similar regarding our characters ♪

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In my boyfriend's garden :

~♥~

♥ Redcurrants :

~♥~

♥ wild strawberries :

~♥~

My boyfriends fluffy cat Luna ♥

~♥~

Luna again ♥

Neko's music : 

• The paper kites - woodland

 

• Bonobo - stay the same 

• Trentemoller - moan

Thank's for reading !

Have a great time ~♥

See you next time (^-^)v  nyan ♫