Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Day 2

We started the day at Meiji Shrine.

outside the Meiji Shrine

Some of the girls wrote prayers on little wooden signs and hung them.

hanging prayers at the Meiji Shrine

After all that peace and quiet, we needed a little noise. So we headed for Harajuku.

in front of Harajuku St.

Wow. What a whole lot of stuff!

The girls were in shopping heaven!

Alex in Harajuku

We also discovered that in the heat of the day, a little shade is a good thing! So many people in Japan carry hikage (literally "sun shade").

Callie and Sofie with parasols

And Matt discovered the Japanese equivalent of RedBull.

Matt with his new favorite drink

At the end of our very long day of lots and lots of walking, we had a delicious noodle soup dinner. And then a long soak in the tub. And then we crashed.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for taking the time to do this, Caritha! It looks like you are having a great time.

Diane Dellamano Brakeley said...

When did "Little Matt" get so big? Have a great time!

Anonymous said...

^_^

I've got a few of the (many) videos I took when I was there :D

here's the adress

http://www.youtube.com/user/MaineToAomori

I'll have a lot more up soon, but so far I've got nine =]