Bitter & Sweet Overload!

Recently I got the two DVD sets that came with Bitter (red-eyed) Saki and Sweet (blue-eyed) Saki. I haven't watched the dvds yet, and I'm not even sure if I'm going to be able to, since they aren't the right region for the US (I think they might play on my computer, but I'm not sure) but I have to admit, I don't really care about the dvds. I just wanted the two Sakis! I was thinking I might pass on them, since they were sort of weird, and definitely expensive, but in the end I can't resist any red-eyed Pinky, so I had to get Bitter. And then I figured I should really get Sweet too since it didn't make sense to get only the one. Ah, Pinky logic... :) Anyway, I'm very glad I did get them because they are terribly cute, and their clothes are actually more useful than I suspected. There's a couple of weird pieces (like Bitter's skirt) but almost everything else is very mix-and-matchable. I'll be posting some of that in the next photo set. Right here, however, is just far too many photos of Bitter & Sweet themselves!

I named Bitter "Beatrix" and Sweet "Fiona" because the nicknames "bee" and "fee" sounded like the "bee" from bitter and the "swee" from sweet. (Can you think of a name that begins with "swee"? I couldn't!) I ended up carting a whole bunch of girls around with me in Bitter & Sweet's clothes, along with Bee and Fee themselves, because I meant to take a photo of them during my lunch hour. Otherwise I frequently end up not having daylight hours to take photos in! I, uh, managed to get lost that day, however, while trying to get to this lunch place I'd been to once before. Aside from the fact that my lunch hour got a bit longer than I meant it to, it kind of turned out well, because I found this really cool waterfall to use as a background! Actually, it was a tiny bit creepy. The road ran over a bridge, and on one side there was this pretty little lake area. On the other side there was a waterfall and a river, but *that* side was all run down looking. Actually, it really wasn't *too* bad, but it didn't seem like a kept-up public area. So I sort of crept over there and hoped it wasn't a bad idea for any of a number of reasons that I could think of. It did make for some cool backgrounds, so it was worth the terror I felt having my Pinkys that close to running water that there was no way I could fish them out of!







In back of Beatrix is a fish ladder. When you dam up a river, environmental regulations frequently require you to install a fish ladder so that the fish can get around the dam. I think there was a sign saying what sort of fish the ladder was protecting, but I'm afraid I don't remember what kind they were now!