My first full day in Japan I was still dealing with jet lag but regardless of how tired I was I wasn't going to lay around and sleep. It's not everyday that you get to be in Tokyo. Plus Cindy wouldn't have allowed me to sleep on her floor all day. Cindy really wanted to go to a museum but I knew very little about this particular museum. We went to the Ghibli museum which features the works of a very famous Japanese animator. The latest film which some of you may have heard of is called "Spirit Away". I have yet to see the film or any other works I didn't find the museum all that interesting. It was also cold and raining again that day. Cindy gave us hot pads to put in our pockets to help keep our hands warm. I've seen hot pads before, you know the kind that you shake up and they stay warm for 6 hrs, but usually only for hunters or maybe if you have to sit through a soccer game in the freeze rain. I didn't bring a heavy coat with me for the purpose of saving space and I didn't really feel like dragging a big coat around everywhere. Besides I was moving to Taiwan it's a tropical island I didn't need a coat. Well I last about 1 day in Japan and broke down and bought myself a heavy coat or it was not going to be an enjoyable remaining 4 days. I got one of those big puffy Michelin man jackets but it did the job quite nicely. Sorry about the tangent back to the museum.
Ghibli Museum (Mitaka, Japan)
After our much over stayed visit to the museum we got back to my favorite part, eating! The food in Japan was really good. We also had Cindy who was an excellent tour guide and she took us to all the best spots. The desserts are very good but to a westerners taste not very sweet. Which seems to be true throughout Asia. Us Americans sure like our sweet tea and pecan pie! (its much more fun if you say it with a southern drawl)
I felt like all we did was eat while I was in Japan. Which was fine with me for the first couple of day but it quickly got old. I believe we ate lunch and dinner out all 5 days. Just in case you didn't already know Tokyo is really, really expensive but if you know where to go you can get some really great food.
Oh let me go on a short tangent for a sec...I find it interest to think about the fact that when I am in a foreign place I could be standing right next to a famous person and not even know who they are. Well in Tokyo there are lot of famous people and we were taking a break eating a bit of dessert and some famous person walk by and Cindy and her friend were like oh thats so and so and she's a model. I think it's funny but anyway where was I....oh yes I ate a lot of good but expensive food. I'll throw a few pics up now so you don't get to bored reading this. eeeeewwwwww aaaawwww look at the pretty colors.....
Yummy!
Yum round 2
I think for the sake of time and to move things along to present day musing I will hit the warp speed button and throw up some of the best pictures of my visit to Tokyo. As you can see i've done above. That way you can zip through them rather quickly. I'll include captions and a sentence or two if the picture doesn't sufficiently tell the whole story. I'll put the posts up with different dates in the titles mostly for my own benefit so I can have some record of my trip. I don't like to journal and this is a much better way for me to record things that happened. At least this way I don't feel like I'm writing to myself or nobody, like I do when I write in a journal.
love the pictures!!
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