Backstory: Dude or Fish... Fish: Japan!

Vegas gave us itchy feet. Again.

On our way home from our 10th anniversary wedding this past January, we decided that we absolutely had to get out of the country again. Even though it had only been just two short months since we came home from Malta and Sicily, we were ready to go.

We knew we didn't want to do another short trip, so we picked places that we wanted to go to where we could spend more than just a few days. The three candidates were Scandanavia, the micro countries of Europe (Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Vatican City), and Japan. Since the prices were about the same, and we knew we could only do one, we let the fates decide.

Dude I win, Fish you lose...
On one side of the Icelandic one Kronor coin there is an Icelandic cod - "Fish". On the other side, there is a cool representation of the Norse God Odin, henceforth known as "Dude". So rather than calling "heads" or "tails" when we flip a coin, we call "dude" or "fish".

Since Odin hails from Scandanavia, and the Japanese are known for fish, Japan won the first round, and the second round as well. Statistically speaking, I'm not sure what the odds are for throwing "fish" twice in a row, but this way if all goes horribly awry, we can blame statistics, probability, the gods, the fates or the norns or whoever, thus absolving us of any blame for bad decision making.

Long story short: we flipped and The Dude said Japan. Nuff said for now.